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I'm completely with Pete and JK on this. As a Stoner fan, I'm highly dissappointed that he disregarded my feelings and just pissed off to enjoy his life. He left me with deep feeling of regret, now that I will never find out how things would have been if he had stayed around past his prime. Now I'm left just believing that he was the most talented and spectacular rider out there, and probably the best. He has given me nothing to work with in order to make some downward revisions to these perceptions. ........ Also, I think it's an outright affront to the fundamental values of (semi)capitalist societies to just turn down a paycheck. I mean losing passion for the sport is all well and good, but if you walk away from the kind of money he could have earned, you must just be ungrateful.
No, Stoner could learn a lot from Rossi here.
When Yamaha asked him to accept less than his championship-winning team mate, he said '.... you' and took the most that the market had to offer. Despite probably being a catholic, he truly showed the spirit of capitalism.
When people were starting to doubt whether he could perform well on a less than perfect bike, he went out there and proofed to them that he couldn't.
When people were arguing whether his nemesis was really a worse rider than him or simply handicapped by a ...... bike, he invested two years of his life to make it completely and utterly obvious that it was down to the ...... bike.
When people were clinging on to the belief that he and his team were a great developers, he made sure to make such a chaotic clusterfuck of development on his new bike, that this illusion was well and truly shattered.
When being manouvred back onto a championship-winning bike despite finishing sixth in standings, he thought of his fans and accepted this treatment so he could give them something to cheer about, rather than decline out of some weird considerations for fairness.
Yes, truly, Stoner could learn a lot from Rossi. Ungrateful ........
