A burger with fries at McDonalds now costs a mere $40,000 per year. No, I'm only joshing. A McDonald's burger/fries order only goes for $787.23. I save money by drinking bottled water (only $22 a bottle at McD's - "What a steal" said the Hamburgler.).
I think he could become a good cross country skiier and maybe triathlete.
Runners always think they would make good cross country skiers, but forget how much of a difference the technical component is. Plus, the top XC skierss fitness is better than the top runners and have recorded the highest VO2 maxs of any endurance sport.
The NBA requires players speak to the media and have protocols for injured players and providing updates to the media. They agree to these rules in return for a paycheck.
Call me entitled but fans don't care about a sport when they know nothing about athletes they want to support.
How much does lebron make? Meanwhile BTC members are stacked in a mcmansion like some rich college kid living in his parents 2nd house during the semester.
Imagine if Lebron didn't play for months, came back scored 5 points, and then disappeared again with no updates.
The very least fans can deserve updates and transparency from athletes. But this lack of professionalism is one example why track isn't a real professional sport.
Your sense of entitlement is ridiculous. Lebron wouldn't owe anyone an explanation. Since, in your words "track isn't a real professional sport" Jager sure as hell doesn't owe anyone an explanation.
You could not pull off this response with a serious face in any sports bar.
Real sports have real fans talking real talk about them in sports bars.
Imagine if Lebron didn't play for months, came back scored 5 points, and then disappeared again with no updates.
The very least fans can deserve updates and transparency from athletes. But this lack of professionalism is one example why track isn't a real professional sport.
Your sense of entitlement is ridiculous. Lebron wouldn't owe anyone an explanation. Since, in your words "track isn't a real professional sport" Jager sure as hell doesn't owe anyone an explanation.
When you are a high profile professional athlete you should inform your fans of why you are not racing for months on end. It is selfish not to do this. Shame on Jerry for rarely talking to the media.
Your sense of entitlement is ridiculous. Lebron wouldn't owe anyone an explanation. Since, in your words "track isn't a real professional sport" Jager sure as hell doesn't owe anyone an explanation.
When you are a high profile professional athlete you should inform your fans of why you are not racing for months on end. It is selfish not to do this. Shame on Jerry for rarely talking to the media.
We deserve better.
Surely you are joking? You must be joking. Do you know what it is like to be a professional athlete? Many professional athlete’s are doing it because of the fans. They might appreciate the fans though.
When you are a high profile professional athlete you should inform your fans of why you are not racing for months on end. It is selfish not to do this. Shame on Jerry for rarely talking to the media.
We deserve better.
Surely you are joking? You must be joking. Do you know what it is like to be a professional athlete? Many professional athlete’s are doing it because of the fans. They might appreciate the fans though.
I meant these athletes are NOT doing it because of the fans. Like a distance runner doesn’t usually have a ton of fans anyway so he is more internally motivated, at least at the genesis of his career.
Your sense of entitlement is ridiculous. Lebron wouldn't owe anyone an explanation. Since, in your words "track isn't a real professional sport" Jager sure as hell doesn't owe anyone an explanation.
When you are a high profile professional athlete you should inform your fans of why you are not racing for months on end. It is selfish not to do this. Shame on Jerry for rarely talking to the media.
We deserve better.
I don't get it, he's pretty active on Instagram and literally raced a month ago. I watched it. Why don't you do better instead.
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When you are a high profile professional athlete you should inform your fans of why you are not racing for months on end. It is selfish not to do this. Shame on Jerry for rarely talking to the media.
We deserve better.
I don't get it, he's pretty active on Instagram and literally raced a month ago. I watched it. Why don't you do better instead.
What criticism? It is a fair question. Please answer the question if you know something. If not, why are you here?
EJ's success is truly "next level" and he is one of a handful of Americans who were truly at the peak of his event (in the distances) but he seems to have left the sport without much fanfare.
I hope he is healthy and can have a great 2024 (Paris) before he truly retires. But I am not confident he'll ever run sub-8:15 again.
Your sense of entitlement is ridiculous. Lebron wouldn't owe anyone an explanation. Since, in your words "track isn't a real professional sport" Jager sure as hell doesn't owe anyone an explanation.
You could not pull off this response with a serious face in any sports bar.
Real sports have real fans talking real talk about them in sports bars.
But Lebron wouldn't just stop showing up and ghost the NBA. There would be like 50 press conferences. Fans care about sports. Leagues care about fans. The press cares about their stars. Put that together and in any normal sport, we know what is happening. People don't just fade away.
Yes, the big frustration with T&F has to be that athletes have a platform and many choose just to not say anything. Here are some examples:
Evan Jager - What are your racing plans? How is training going? When will you open up in the Steeple?
Emmanuel Korir - You were supposed to race the 400m in Kenya and chase the Kenyan Record. Why didn't you compete despite sharing video on the day of you there? Are you racing in Rabat or is there an injury affecting that plan too?
Cole Hocker - Just a pretty much constant smattering of IG yet rarely addresses if he's healthy/racing plans.
Then there are athletes that take you inside their day-to-day as well as give their racing calendar, or at least their next race(s). I don't think fans need as much transparency as you get from a lot of the Team Boss women or ON team, but the bare minimums of here's why I didn't race, here's my next race etc. would help following the sport immensely.
Your sense of entitlement is ridiculous. Lebron wouldn't owe anyone an explanation. Since, in your words "track isn't a real professional sport" Jager sure as hell doesn't owe anyone an explanation.
When you are a high profile professional athlete you should inform your fans of why you are not racing for months on end. It is selfish not to do this. Shame on Jerry for rarely talking to the media.
We deserve better.
You absolutely do not deserve better, and you're not entitled to anything from professional athletes. I get that you want to hear more from them, but you need to get over yourself.
Your sense of entitlement is ridiculous. Lebron wouldn't owe anyone an explanation. Since, in your words "track isn't a real professional sport" Jager sure as hell doesn't owe anyone an explanation.
When you are a high profile professional athlete you should inform your fans of why you are not racing for months on end. It is selfish not to do this. Shame on Jerry for rarely talking to the media.
We deserve better.
Lol what?! Evan Jager high profile? I live in Minnesota near the Mall of America; I would bet all my money I could stand in the Rotunda courtyard there and ask 1000 people who Evan Jager is and not one of them would know the answer. If even one person knew who he was I'd fall over.
When you are a high profile professional athlete you should inform your fans of why you are not racing for months on end. It is selfish not to do this. Shame on Jerry for rarely talking to the media.
We deserve better.
Lol what?! Evan Jager high profile? I live in Minnesota near the Mall of America; I would bet all my money I could stand in the Rotunda courtyard there and ask 1000 people who Evan Jager is and not one of them would know the answer. If even one person knew who he was I'd fall over.
Yes, the big frustration with T&F has to be that athletes have a platform and many choose just to not say anything. Here are some examples:
Evan Jager - What are your racing plans? How is training going? When will you open up in the Steeple?
Emmanuel Korir - You were supposed to race the 400m in Kenya and chase the Kenyan Record. Why didn't you compete despite sharing video on the day of you there? Are you racing in Rabat or is there an injury affecting that plan too?
Cole Hocker - Just a pretty much constant smattering of IG yet rarely addresses if he's healthy/racing plans.
Then there are athletes that take you inside their day-to-day as well as give their racing calendar, or at least their next race(s). I don't think fans need as much transparency as you get from a lot of the Team Boss women or ON team, but the bare minimums of here's why I didn't race, here's my next race etc. would help following the sport immensely.
A team like BTC should have a person in charge of PR and run a social media website to give updates on their athletes. So many of us are interested in what runners status and race schedule are. There is really no good reason to hide these details from us.
Yes, the big frustration with T&F has to be that athletes have a platform and many choose just to not say anything. Here are some examples:
Evan Jager - What are your racing plans? How is training going? When will you open up in the Steeple?
Emmanuel Korir - You were supposed to race the 400m in Kenya and chase the Kenyan Record. Why didn't you compete despite sharing video on the day of you there? Are you racing in Rabat or is there an injury affecting that plan too?
Cole Hocker - Just a pretty much constant smattering of IG yet rarely addresses if he's healthy/racing plans.
Then there are athletes that take you inside their day-to-day as well as give their racing calendar, or at least their next race(s). I don't think fans need as much transparency as you get from a lot of the Team Boss women or ON team, but the bare minimums of here's why I didn't race, here's my next race etc. would help following the sport immensely.
A team like BTC should have a person in charge of PR and run a social media website to give updates on their athletes. So many of us are interested in what runners status and race schedule are. There is really no good reason to hide these details from us.
Who are you to decide what other people should do? I think you should stop posting. Will you?
A team like BTC should have a person in charge of PR and run a social media website to give updates on their athletes. So many of us are interested in what runners status and race schedule are. There is really no good reason to hide these details from us.
Who are you to decide what other people should do? I think you should stop posting. Will you?
The LeBron comparison would be okay for Usain Bolt. For Jager I think Kyle Korver is a better comparison. He was one of the best strictly 3-pt shooters the NBA has ever seen, but otherwise kinda an obscure name with limited other skills - kinda like a steeplechase specialist. Anyway, who the hell knows when Kyle Korver retired?