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Date Posted: 18:25:27 07/02/06 Sun
Author: weezy
Subject: Re: A doping analogy
In reply to: chris t 's message, "A doping analogy" on 02:11:38 07/02/06 Sun

>Ill post this again for the newcomers, read it and
>make your own decisions.... I am thinking about
>stopping my research and posting on the subject of
>doping, because, well... becuase it is starting to
>break my heart. When non riders used to ask me what I
>thought about it, I used to tell them everything I
>knew, but to be honest, I would rather say "I don't
>know anything about that, but what a great sport!"
>
>I would rather bring people into the fold, than turn
>their opinions against it. But I may jump in from time
>to time when people start posting bogus info etc...
>
>
>Originally Posted a Bike Forums Member "where did I
>say that Lance hasn't taken performancing enhancing
>drugs. My point is he has not been caught and because
>of that reason I am not making judgements. I get the
>feeling from some of you that he's guilty of doping
>because of his performance. Thus he has to be taking
>performance enhancers. It's Lance's job to prove his
>innocence. What am I missing here? You know my
>neighbor is an alcoholic, so I guess I am too. We both
>have homes, we both have two vehicles, etc, etc,. It's
>guilt by association."
>
>
>Response:
>
>I like the alcoholic analogy, but you left out some
>key details.
>
>
>You started going to parties at young age, and you
>really liked it. Sometimes you would have a good time,
>sometimes you would have a great time. So you kept
>going to bigger and better parties, sometimes you'd
>have a good time, sometimes you'd have such a bad
>time, you'd go home early. Every now and then you
>would have another really great time. The better time
>you have, the more parties you got invited too, and
>you discover that having the absolute best time at the
>party is what you really want out of life.
>
>But then you start to notice that some of the guys you
>party with are drinking! And the guys that are
>drinking start having a better time than a lot of the
>guys who don't drink. Then you meet some new friends,
>guys named Ochowicz, Borysewicz, Gorski, and
>Carmichael. These guys have been partying for years,
>and they drank back then, some even bartended a little
>on the side. In 1984 They went to a big party at the
>Olympics and got so drunk, they had the absolute best
>time in the world!
>
>These guys like your style, so they take you under
>their wing, and they start teaching you how to have a
>better time at the parties, they give you all sorts of
>advice and assistance as your Chaperones. The more
>parties you went to, the more you realized how many
>people were drinking, but you befriended them all
>anyways. Guys from different countries, all partying
>together, some drinking some not, but everyone trying
>to have the best time they could. You knew it was
>going on, after all, some people need to drink to have
>a good time. Every group of guys had their own
>bartender, Some of your Chaperones know a lot of them
>by name, as they all used to drink and party together
>years ago. Your group has a bartender too. Will your
>Chaperones expect you to drink? who knows, but they
>always tell you they had a great time at the parties
>when they drank.
>
>Now you're partying with your Chaperones and friends
>on a World Class level, and your having some pretty
>good times in Belgium and France, but then you get
>sick, really sick, and they say you may even die. But
>you go to the bar, and a group of bartenders make you
>drinks, drinks that save your life. You see the power
>of the drink, and after you recover, everyone wants to
>know if you looked to God, or found religion while
>teetering on the brink. Your answer? You thank your
>bartenders, without them, you wouldn't be here today.
>
>So you start partying again, and its hard to have a
>really good time again, but you meet a new friend,
>He's a Bartender, in fact he is the best bartender in
>all the land. His name is Michele Ferrari, and he has
>recipes from all over the world. Not only are his
>drinks great, and expensive, but he swears to you that
>you can drink them, and no one will ever know. After
>all, He is in the Bartending Hall of Fame, well, for
>sportsbars anyways. And he has served drinks to some
>of the greatest partiers of all time, and they all had
>great times! Not only did you visit him from time to
>time, you stood up for him, when other partiers tried
>to give his recipes away to people who wanted to close
>his bar down. These people also want to know if you
>are drinking at Ferrari's Bar and Grill, you tell them
>you are only there for the dirty jokes, the pool table
>and the pretzels.
>
>In 1999 you blew a very low number on a breathalyzer
>test, not enough to get arrested, but it was not
>something that could be ignored. Turns out you only
>sat in a puddle of booze, and your chaperones had an
>old permission slip from a bartender that allowed you
>to be in the bar when it happened. Wierd that the ink
>was still fresh..
>
>In 2000, after tough night of partying at your place,
>a TV crew filmed members of your party entourage
>throwing out empty bottles of Actovegin Lite
>(transports oxygen great, less filling). But the Party
>Organizers had never heard of this beer, and had to
>add it to the drink list immediatley after.
>
>Every Summer after that, you had the best time out of
>everyone at the Big Bash in July, some guys would get
>caught drinking from time to time, and had to go home
>early, some were unlucky enough to get pulled over
>with a case of Schlitz in the trunk of thier wifes
>car. A few fellas you used to party with had some good
>stories about when you got drunk, and a girl who used
>to come over and decorate for the party named Emma
>Oreilly said she made a few runs to the liquor store
>for you, but other than that, You kept partying better
>than anyone else for seven years in a row, And became
>a hero.
>
>
>
>Now, knowing all this, can I say for sure that you're
>an alcoholic? No, of course not.
>
>But after 15 years of partying, and trying to have a
>better and better time, after making friends with,
>getting advice from and surrounding yourself with
>drunks, alchoholics and bartenders, and having a
>personal parking space, and a key to the liquor
>cabinet at Ferraris Bar and Grill. I can't believe
>that you never ever poured a glass and had a sip.
>
>and some more... I mean is it still sport when you
>need all this to get 3rd at the TdF?
>

-----
chris t, not cuttin' ya any slack just cz tda is yer bday!!

interesting post -- tho difficult to tell at a fast read what was your writing and what you had quoted form another website

here's this for some more analogy:
you are watching all the others having better and better times year after year at these parties you go to and you want some of the good times. no you want the best times. you have two options -- do what they are doing and have better and better times or do something else for the best times.

let's say you are also good at playing head games -- with a clear head as compared to their party heads, you can out think any of the rest of them and have the best times

you also know that what you are doing is real -- the real you and not just some party time good time better time.

you probably get more sleep at night as a result -- and have better dreams -- without nightmares

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