{"id":587,"date":"2009-07-08T11:50:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T15:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2009-07-08T11:50:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T15:50:43","slug":"this-is-what-it-takes-for-my-local-sports-section-to-cover-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"This is what it takes for my local sports section to cover F1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"anti-fascist\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The folks who run Formula One racing are idiots.\u00a0 I understand that they want to contain costs and make the sport a bit greener, but the ways in which these monied elites go about attempting to achieve that goal are horrendous.\u00a0 Earlier this year, the sport threatened to self-destruct for next season, with the ‘commissioner’ (FIA President Max Mosley)\u00a0 going one way and the teams going another.\u00a0 Then, just when a resolution was reached<\/a>, Mosley started to send a signal that he was going to back out of the deal<\/a>.\u00a0 now, no one knows what’s going to happen.\u00a0 So, am I going to spend any money on the fancy F1 app at iTunes so I can follow the races on my mobile?\u00a0 Not until I know there’s is going to be an actual F1 season next year.<\/p>\n

Oh, but wait, the insanity continues.\u00a0 Now Bernie Eccelstone, the guy who basically owns the sport, decided that now would be a good time to talk about what a great leader Hitler was<\/a>.\u00a0 Good luck trying to walk that one back.\u00a0 these people are giving Sarah Palin a run for her moeny.<\/p>\n

So after an amazing and competitive championship last year, featuring a young and charismatic driver (Lewis Hamilton<\/a>) who is also the first black champion (and driver), and after the phoenix-like rebirth of Honda as BraunGP, none of which was covered with any substance by the American media, now my local paper has something to say<\/a> (scroll half-way down – still no respect).<\/p>\n

That’s OK, F1 bigwigs.\u00a0 We know how you feel.\u00a0 After all, we threw snowballs at Santa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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