Comments for The Bryant Blog: Life, Wrestling, Pop Culture http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com Who said I had to stop bloggin' 'bout wrestling? Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:26:57 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Repost: Save Fullerton Wrestling – NWCA All-Star Classic by Sam Gollmyer http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/repost-save-fullerton-wrestling-nwca-all-star-classic/#comment-444 Sam Gollmyer Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:26:57 +0000 http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/?p=501#comment-444 Just wanting to purchase tickets for Fullerton All Star classic and encouraging others to jump on the save Fullerton wrestling band wagon.. Sam Just wanting to purchase tickets for Fullerton All Star classic and encouraging others to jump on the save Fullerton wrestling band wagon.. Sam

]]> Comment on A few tidbits … by Jim Brown http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/a-few-tidbits/#comment-435 Jim Brown Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:59:20 +0000 http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/?p=505#comment-435 Jason, Be sure you come back to DIIIs this year. They'll be bigger and better than ever. Jim Jason,

Be sure you come back to DIIIs this year. They’ll be bigger and better than ever.

Jim

]]> Comment on If you disagree with Martin Floreani, you are bad for the sport by JB http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/enough-if-you-disagree-with-martin-floreani-you-are-bad-for-the-sport/#comment-432 JB Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:20:21 +0000 http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/?p=162#comment-432 I'm all for unbiased, which is the reason I chose to deal with the issue the way I did. It's only unbiased if people know both sides of the story. For two years, people only knew one side. People have to be willing to work with each other in a professional sense, not only work with someone in the way they only want to be working with. It's a model that doesn't work. A lot of people who have been attacked work their tails off, only to be fired upon when they are in Martin's way. That's not how this sport needs to be treated. Treat the sport, and those in it, with dignity and respect and have a reverence for what we, as media professionals, journalists, press agents, etc., do, then you'll find we'd be on the same page. It should have never come to this, but some people just don't want to listen. I'll defend my stance until I'm blue in the face. Just because I'm the only one talking about it, doesn't mean I'm the only one who thinks that way. But that also stands for the other side of the coin. The best way to handle things, at least to me in my experience, is to treat people with respect and be honest. When that doesn't happen, pissing contests like this start with no winner. Thanks for the comments, JB I’m all for unbiased, which is the reason I chose to deal with the issue the way I did. It’s only unbiased if people know both sides of the story. For two years, people only knew one side. People have to be willing to work with each other in a professional sense, not only work with someone in the way they only want to be working with. It’s a model that doesn’t work.

A lot of people who have been attacked work their tails off, only to be fired upon when they are in Martin’s way. That’s not how this sport needs to be treated. Treat the sport, and those in it, with dignity and respect and have a reverence for what we, as media professionals, journalists, press agents, etc., do, then you’ll find we’d be on the same page.

It should have never come to this, but some people just don’t want to listen. I’ll defend my stance until I’m blue in the face. Just because I’m the only one talking about it, doesn’t mean I’m the only one who thinks that way. But that also stands for the other side of the coin.

The best way to handle things, at least to me in my experience, is to treat people with respect and be honest. When that doesn’t happen, pissing contests like this start with no winner.

Thanks for the comments,
JB

]]> Comment on If you disagree with Martin Floreani, you are bad for the sport by big pussy http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/enough-if-you-disagree-with-martin-floreani-you-are-bad-for-the-sport/#comment-431 big pussy Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:14:01 +0000 http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/?p=162#comment-431 just an unbiased observation. i appreciate everything you do. just an unbiased observation. i appreciate everything you do.

]]> Comment on If you disagree with Martin Floreani, you are bad for the sport by JB http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/enough-if-you-disagree-with-martin-floreani-you-are-bad-for-the-sport/#comment-430 JB Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:11:50 +0000 http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/?p=162#comment-430 By the way, I loved your work in The Sopranos. By the way, I loved your work in The Sopranos.

]]> Comment on If you disagree with Martin Floreani, you are bad for the sport by JB http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/enough-if-you-disagree-with-martin-floreani-you-are-bad-for-the-sport/#comment-429 JB Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:07:02 +0000 http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/?p=162#comment-429 I guess you missed all the parts where I've said time and time again I've tried to offer advice to help. I wrote this nearly a year ago. I was sick and tired of taking attack after attack, so I told the wrestling community what they didn't want to hear. If you conduct yourself as a professional, you'd find you get more accomplished. But trying to argue with someone who will not see the other side of the coin has proved to be pointless in this case. This was the "final" resort. We've had many conversations about working things out, but if you try to get in the way of his business plan, he'll rip you. What isn't thinly veiled is how he's treated people in the wrestling community who have poured their life into this sport. I'm not trying to get rich off of wrestling. For two and a half years, I was publicly quiet and tried to handle the situation one-to-one. Listen to the voicemail again. Tell me that's how you'd want to be treated by a "media contemporary." There's no defense for it. I spoke the truth and if people don't like it, so be it. I guess you missed all the parts where I’ve said time and time again I’ve tried to offer advice to help. I wrote this nearly a year ago. I was sick and tired of taking attack after attack, so I told the wrestling community what they didn’t want to hear.

If you conduct yourself as a professional, you’d find you get more accomplished. But trying to argue with someone who will not see the other side of the coin has proved to be pointless in this case.

This was the “final” resort. We’ve had many conversations about working things out, but if you try to get in the way of his business plan, he’ll rip you. What isn’t thinly veiled is how he’s treated people in the wrestling community who have poured their life into this sport. I’m not trying to get rich off of wrestling. For two and a half years, I was publicly quiet and tried to handle the situation one-to-one. Listen to the voicemail again. Tell me that’s how you’d want to be treated by a “media contemporary.”

There’s no defense for it. I spoke the truth and if people don’t like it, so be it.

]]> Comment on If you disagree with Martin Floreani, you are bad for the sport by big pussy http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/enough-if-you-disagree-with-martin-floreani-you-are-bad-for-the-sport/#comment-428 big pussy Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:57:16 +0000 http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/?p=162#comment-428 it sounds as if you are constantly finding some way to tell martin that flo is not a real media outlet. i dont how many times i read that in your blog in one fashion or another. maybe if you would stop taking that angle with him you'd get further, and possibly get him to listen to your suggestions. all i read was you taking thinly veiled shots at him. it sounds as if you are constantly finding some way to tell martin that flo is not a real media outlet. i dont how many times i read that in your blog in one fashion or another. maybe if you would stop taking that angle with him you’d get further, and possibly get him to listen to your suggestions. all i read was you taking thinly veiled shots at him.

]]> Comment on There are better ways to disagree with the Michael Vick situation than ‘hate’ by Joel Viss http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/the-moral-high-road-doesnt-seem-to-exist-with-michael-vick-critics/#comment-415 Joel Viss Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:37:51 +0000 http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/?p=477#comment-415 I agree with your assessment of the Michael Vick situation. If he was not in a correctional facility then don't say he was. Change the name to punishment facility. We do have some strange penalties for crimes when someone gets a more serious punishment than another who actually directly caused the death of another human being. I like dogs and Vick is guilty, but a lot of PETA people would do anything out of respect for any animal,(like a fly that is known to have vectored serious health disasters), while turning their back on people who they could easily help in one way or another. It just does not make sense. I agree with your assessment of the Michael Vick situation. If he was not in a correctional facility then don’t say he was. Change the name to punishment facility. We do have some strange penalties for crimes when someone gets a more serious punishment than another who actually directly caused the death of another human being. I like dogs and Vick is guilty, but a lot of PETA people would do anything out of respect for any animal,(like a fly that is known to have vectored serious health disasters), while turning their back on people who they could easily help in one way or another. It just does not make sense.

]]> Comment on There are better ways to disagree with the Michael Vick situation than ‘hate’ by Mike Licht http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/the-moral-high-road-doesnt-seem-to-exist-with-michael-vick-critics/#comment-414 Mike Licht Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:02:21 +0000 http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/?p=477#comment-414 Vick interview provokes howls of protest. See: http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/michael-vick-signed-to-nfl-amid-howling-controversy/ Vick interview provokes howls of protest.

See:

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/michael-vick-signed-to-nfl-amid-howling-controversy/

]]> Comment on The PGA Championship: A first look at one of golf’s majors by Chris Turner http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/the-pga-championship-a-first-look-at-one-of-golf%e2%80%99s-majors/#comment-413 Chris Turner Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:49:26 +0000 http://bryantwrestling.wordpress.com/?p=474#comment-413 Great insights, Jason. I'm a former college wrestler pretty devoted to, yet not mastering golf. A few years ago, I did the same as you, but entering a lottery for the privilege of paying too much money for Ryder Cup tickets (coincidentally, also sponsored by the PGA) at my nearby Oakland Hills Country Club. I won 4 tickets and it was a great, memorable time; we all still talk about the event. Nice summary. Chris Great insights, Jason. I’m a former college wrestler pretty devoted to, yet not mastering golf. A few years ago, I did the same as you, but entering a lottery for the privilege of paying too much money for Ryder Cup tickets (coincidentally, also sponsored by the PGA) at my nearby Oakland Hills Country Club. I won 4 tickets and it was a great, memorable time; we all still talk about the event. Nice summary.

Chris

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