Not really angry. Just wanted you to answer my freakin' question.
Saying words are not important is a suitable sentiment if you're debating with the New York Language School Poets
- but our purposes words
are important. They are the vehicle by which we convey
intent.
Rossi said Yamaha had to make a choice. They chose to keep both riders. Rossi left anyhow.
Why? Because those were his terms. He insisted Yamaha choose one or the other and when
they would not comply - he exited stage left.
What is so terrible about being the #2 rider - if not the loss of face? Has it not been stated time and again
that the most important person to beat is one's teammate? Certainly no-one believes that Rossi was
going to receive inferior support in 2011 as a result of Lorenzo's championship.
Will you not concede that to be beaten by Lorenzo on the bike that Rossi has proclaimed as "his baby"
had to be humiliating? Rossi is a god on a bike - but lets face it - he's not an egoless zen master.
As Jum has said - connect the dots; there is no way that Rossi could swallow his pride and be number two
- so he made what at present
appears to have been rash decision.
Your implication here is that those who represent my point of view on this are being melodramatic.
But look at the facts. Rossi left Yamaha and the bike he developed - to ride the idiosyncratic,
career-killing Ducati, in what will be his seniormost year in racing, while injured no less. That's
a pretty drastic, dare I say dramatic turn of events. The spurned lover metaphor seems
very much apropos.