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since you put it that way, it does seem that Scott is being a whiney little git....since people are "cheating" to get sponsorship, he just gave in all together rather than continue on and set a good example for how things are supposed to be...but then he goes and bitches about it on the internet. at anyrate, how is the game supposed to be different? should wanting sponsorship be outlawed? i supposes as a "sport", alpine climbing is unique in that there no audience actively holding up rating cards and judging style...its a peanut gallery that takes place later, speculatively downgrading or guessing at the style the climb was actually done in rather than dealing with facts. I find the people who make it their business to downgrade climbs without leaving their arm chair, or who question the motives of others all day long just as/even more annoying than BS you list here Dru.

thats the Original Baller ™, and i honestly don't think you have what is takes to pull it off.

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I agree it is an interesting conversation. Never said it wasnt. Spray is good by the way......this conversation is still 5 pages of spray, only in a climbing forum. Actually this thread is all about climbing and the business behind climbing. if you can't figure it out and STFU then i can help you.

Or a wallmart pup tent

You should go as a bleeding crossfit induced nipple.

Are you on prescription?

That's interesting

yes, you are sponsored by Bill W

Its actually an interesting discussion, Boner. Just because you see the world through spray colored glasses doesn't mean everyone else is as deluded as you are.

but what if your sponsorship only paid you to travel around the world and climb year round? that would suck! i'm imagining that sponsored climbers are making WAY more than that, because its not like another sucker is waiting in the wings. they probaby have great medical and dental coverage though.

just wait till Nike comes to its senses and realizes how hugely profitable this whole climbing business is. then Colin will be hanging around with A-Rod and Tiger, palling it up on million dollar yachts.

you'll find posts of mine from before the election that said that the winner of this election would be the loser. I AM A PROPHET! that said, at least i don't feel like we gave a teenager the keys to cadillac like some of you do. it seems like the country was going to hell in a handbasket before he stepped into office, and the handout to corporations was already under way. i did see a Foxnews clip attributing a recent financial rebound to bailouts that Bush approved. it was pretty humorous! but it seems, to PeterPuget, that hell still has our handbasket, and will deliver it in 2010.

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don't hate the player, hate the game

my grandma will be disappointed to hear this Blake but then she doesn't usually keep up with Hot Flashes. different strokes, different folks.

if your pet is a pig you can always convert them into bacon if they piss you off.

i smell bile!

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Steve Swenson and Joe Puryear will be showing slides, along with others (maybe you?)

i'm pretty sure the parents had other options other than those three choices. but as to why Americans would be culturely predisposed to making those choices, well that perhaps is the problem. its probably Hollywoods fault. Specifically Disney. [video:youtube]KRIrDdayXHc

I hope to be able to announce something tomorrow about this, but details are still getting ironed out!

who is that on you dru?

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