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Yes I Have Balls wrote:Snore:

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Dale Saran wrote …

If Greg Glassman cured cancer tomorrow and shared it with the world, Jason Ashman would be on here saying what a piece of cr@p Coach is for doing it and how it was all about trying to make a buck.

I don't have any "inside" info on Reebok - and yes, I'm one of CF HQ's lawyers. That I don't ought to tell you what you need to know. Reebok isn't secretly guiding CF's business decisions - for Eric Fasciani above - they don't get to have more than one box. Every box will be individually licensed to a CF Level I trainer; same as anyone else. Like we say to every other prospective affiliate who applies - what business relationship you have outside of that is your decision. I'm not going to repeat what I've already written about the (erroneous) notion of Reebok as a threat to Affils - Google the SicFit article written by my friend Kevin Cherrick and my response.

If you don't like Reebok's gear, you don't have to buy it. Just like it if you don't like Progenex, or Under Armour, or Panda Express, or Budweiser, or Paleokits, or Life As Rx'd, or Gatorade, or Rogue, etc... (all previous sponsors of the Games), you don't have to buy their stuff. You can decide where you want to spend your discretionary dollars.

But there can't be any doubt in anyone's mind for a minute that Reebok's agreement to a long-term commitment to the Games is a very good thing for Affiliates and the community as a whole. For those who want to remain "underground" or whatever other term you're substituting for "elitist" and "segregated", we wouldn't have some of the great people we have now if that had been the predominant attitude. In fact, YOU wouldn't know about CF because it would have remained hidden in a small gym in Santa Cruz and only Annie, Eva T, Greg A., Tony B., and some of the other OC'ers would ever have known about it.

And of course money ruins everything. Because I'm much more morally decrepit now that I make a good living than I was when I was on welfare as a kid, or broke as a college student, but at least then I was pure of heart and mind and ethically unspoiled.

Gary John wrote:Anybody else have a lawyer who posts about the company he represents?

Steggy wrote:

Gary John wrote:Anybody else have a lawyer who posts about the company he represents?

I would think a good lawyer wouldn't be making comments on an internet message board about the people they represent.

The Lord Shafmungous wrote:I think the speculation on IGx's part that Saran is a douche may be correct here.

Ed Zachary wrote:LOL

Saran says Ashman's an asshole.

Gary John wrote:You have to be old to get this one:

Reebok and X-fit=AMF and Harley

And yes, all my gay friends and dentists have Harleys.

30 year hate story about me, a Harley dealer, and revenge.
Agreed price on a fatbob, show up with cash to pick it up, he wants more.
Told him to go fuck himself.

3 years later, he wants to move his machine shop from one city to the next. Doesn't recgnize me. I get it loaded and show up at the new place. Before I unload, I tell him the price is double what I told him.

Jay wrote:

Ed Zachary wrote:LOL

Saran says Ashman's an asshole.

Just a heads up, there are TWO Jason Ashman's who have posted on the @fit boards and are indirectly involved with @fit.

One is obvious, one is a KB guy from Canada.

And I don't go by Jason to most people... so that leaves only one.

I dig big chicks wrote:Reebok's not a threat to @fit because they apparently are barely organized. The Reebok site was supposed to go live Monday and isn't up yet (or wasn't last night) I train two independent contractors who work with Reebok: both confirm the disorganization there.

WildGorillaMan wrote:

I dig big chicks wrote:Reebok's not a threat to @fit because they apparently are barely organized. The Reebok site was supposed to go live Monday and isn't up yet (or wasn't last night) I train two independent contractors who work with Reebok: both confirm the disorganization there.

I've said it before, but Adidas keeps Reebok around to be the Washington Generals to Adidas' Harlem Globetrotters.

Jay wrote: Reebok is looked at as a joke.

Dale Saran wrote...
And yes, I'm a very angry man over your words. They will keep me up tonight and raise my blood pressure just by reading them.

lasalle wrote:

Dale Saran wrote...
And yes, I'm a very angry man over your words. They will keep me up tonight and raise my blood pressure just by reading them.

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Name any other organization that would let it's leadership get away with these tantrums. Classless fucks...

Matt Solomon wrote …
Dale,

It's not very effective to declare how busy you are while writing a novel on the comments. Although it was written in past tense, so maybe things are slow right now! Interesting that you have no inside info about the Reebok deal, but you have the only signed copy. Perhaps you forgot to read it because things were super busy? You also don't get to declare that you did or did not demean or belittle. Ditto for stating "there can be no doubt", when people are sharing their doubts. Glassman is on video saying that he doesn't peddle ideas, just presents them (like the Zone) because he believes them to be effective, but if the community were to inform him that it was actually ineffective - he would not likely continue to present it. (Since you're a lawyer and a dick, excuse me, a stickler for details, I must declare that this is not a direct quote, but more of the gist of the message from a video I only sort-of remember watching.) I'm still waiting for the evidence-base about Reebok ZigTechs actually being good for running. Maybe Fugue will figure it out!

I occasionally show compassion, so I am sorry you will be kept up at night over something so silly.

Gin Master wrote:
I've seen disbarred lawyers conduct themselves better than Dale. I continue to be amazed at how Couch, Dale, and Castro represent themselves as the face of @F (Budding gets a pass because he's the Ringo Starr of the bunch).

WildGorillaMan wrote:

Gin Master wrote:
I've seen disbarred lawyers conduct themselves better than Dale. I continue to be amazed at how Couch, Dale, and Castro represent themselves as the face of @F (Budding gets a pass because he's the Ringo Starr of the bunch).

You get the 2011 Award for Damning with Faint Praise, GM.

I once heard Greg say at the 2008 Games (I was there competing Joseph, as a simple CF'er, before I ever worked for CF and when I was an affiliate owner) that he would take the KKK's money as a sponsor and let them have banners there if they paid their sponsorship. I'm not entirely sure if he was joking or not.-Dale Saran, Esq