Considerations

Understanding politics, finance prediction, dating rules, marcom marketing, and the Israel conflict by a global writing team

Considerations header image 2

America’s Cup

February 16th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized

I think the com­ments on this YouTube clip hit the nail on the head.

All of the excite­ment of the America’s Cup race has been taken out of it by cor­po­rate inter­est. It’s always been a rich man’s game, but they’ve taken it to a new level, now. And, they’ve brought the sport to its nadir.

Now Avail­able: E-Book down­load: “Let­ters from Israel: An Amer­i­can journalist’s adven­tures in the Holy Land.“


Every lit­tle bit helps! Any dona­tions to help us keep writ­ing are much appreciated:


VN:F [1.9.3_1094]
Rat­ing: 0 (from 0 votes)
  • Share/Bookmark

No related posts.

Tags:

5 Comments so far ↓

  • Dan

    Does any­one care, even a lit­tle bit, about the America’s Cup? It’s a bunch of trust fund kids using their par­ents’ mil­lions (or bil­lions) to freak­ing sail? Is there any­thing, any­thing at all, less rel­e­vant to the aver­age per­son than this?  (Quote)

    VA:F [1.9.3_1094]
    Rating: 0 (from 0 votes)
  • Sam Scott

    Dan, I’m nowhere near being a trust-fun child, of course, but I’ve appre­ci­ated sail­ing ever since I took a course in Key West.

    It’s a beau­ti­ful hobby (or sport) full of intri­cate cal­cu­la­tions as well as per­sonal intu­ition as far as weather, speed, angles, and waves. One could say it’s a lit­tle math­e­mat­i­cal.  (Quote)

    VN:F [1.9.3_1094]
    Rating: 0 (from 0 votes)
  • Jeff

    To Sam’s state­ment, I would add more sim­ply: sailors and wannabe sailors. Like me.  (Quote)

    VA:F [1.9.3_1094]
    Rating: 0 (from 0 votes)
  • Dan

    I seem to have mis-stressed my venom. I cer­tainly don’t have a prob­lem with sail­ing, in and of itself. In fact, I would love the oppor­tu­nity to go sail­ing some­day — or at least ride on a sail­boat. There’s just some­thing roman­tic about a boat that moves with­out a motor. Maybe it’s the qui­eter nature of the locomotion.

    The thing that I find absurd and irrel­e­vant is the vast sums spent on such a pur­suit. These boats, con­structed of car­bon com­pos­ite, cost upwards of $100 mil­lion. I sim­ply meant that the vast major­ity of peo­ple can­not relate to a pur­suit like this. Sail­ing = okay. $100 mil­lion boats = what?!?  (Quote)

    VA:F [1.9.3_1094]
    Rating: 0 (from 0 votes)
    • Sam Scott

      Sail­ing = okay. $100 mil­lion boats = what?!?

      I remem­ber an old joke from some stand-up come­dian. When you have a ten-foot boat, you want a 15-foot boat. When you have a 15-foot boat, you want a 20-foot boat. And so on.  (Quote)

      VN:F [1.9.3_1094]
      Rating: 0 (from 0 votes)

Leave a Comment

Get Adobe Flash playerPlugin by wpburn.com wordpress themes