<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Teomolca @ Jul 13 2009, 06:04 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I'd say "phyisically small" could be applied to 80% of the grid since they're all under the world average for men.
But actually you'll see <u>
only Dani Pedrosa is ridiculed, it's not because he's the smallest. It's because he is very good,</u> and you'll notice the ones that ridicule him are fans of riders who might get beaten by Dani (Rossi, Lorenzo, Stoner) or by the ones Dani has mopped the floor with (all his teammates).
When a sport becomes popular, the pro players tend to be more or less the same size, jockey are riders are extremely small, basketball players (depending on the position) are very tall. Judging by the average size of MotoGP grid 1.70m, I'd say that's the most convenient size (there's some disadvantages to being too small).
So Dani IMO doesn't benefit from his size at all, and would be quicker if he was a few cm taller. Same way Rossi would probably be a bit quicker too if he was a few cm shorter.
You're relatively new to the forum - so you've missed a lot of earlier comments on Pedrosa -
so clearly, you don't get what it is everybody hates about him. #1 was his ....... move on
his teammate Nicky Hayden on the penultimate race in 2006 when Hayden had the championship
all wrapped up. Dani Pendejo made an incredibly dangerous and unbelivably stupid pass on Hayden and knocked him down and almost cost him the championship. Pedrosa was nowhere near to being in contention for the championship - but he made this insanely stupid pass on teammate Hayden that was so thoughtless and completely pointless because he had such a huge ....... ego and because he was like a pissy little boy who was having a tantrum over the fact that he saw himself as Honda's #1 Boy and because he resented the fact that the big stupid American was going to win the championship for the Spanish Repsol team. And afterwards he never ....... apolgized to his teammate. Instead he sulked like a little ..... He showed absolutely no sense of sportsmanship. And in turn he infuriated people all over the world. He was viewed as a nasty little .... with a Napoleon complex and only made things worse by way of his constant demands on Honda for refinements to the the bikes that only he would get in the following season - leaving his championship-winning teammate with a half-assed bike, minus most of the updates that should have been offered to the rider (Hayden) who had accomplished the most for the team. He's been a sulking little .... when interviewed and behaves in general like he's second coming of Christ. People resent the hell out of Pedrosa because he's an undeserving, spoiled brat on who Repsol has wasted millions of dollars of resources that should have been spent on developing Hayden's bike as he was the more successful rider. And always... he made everyone hate him because he demonstrated so much false pride and behaved like an ungrateful little .... with a ...... attitude. He's constantly been perceived as an undeserving little .... who made things worse by never acknowledging the superiority of his teammate for the constantly saying and doing things to undermine Hayden - something that simply isn't done to one's teammate. I used to be a photographer and Pedrosa's antics remind me of a group of gay Flamenco dancers I once spent a week shooting. They were all spiteful little ....... and would do things like putting broken glass in each others dance shoes. That's Pedrosa in a nutshell. So people naturally make fun of "The Mouse That Roared" because of his extreme hubris.
