<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Mar 26 2009, 12:49 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Dude, they need the "money up front"? Haha, how many entrants did you imagine might apply? We are talking about 2 maybe 3 max. I think they can front the Euros if needed.
Anyway, it smells fishy. Look at the sequence of events. DMG cancels AMA round. Press release comes out about Wild Card aps. Next day they (for all intents and purposes) close down the application process. Uhm, can somebody say 'back room deal'. Perhaps the kind that a certain DMG CEO could and would pull off? Does Edmundson have any Pirelli or WSBK contacts? I guess they figured if they can pull some strings and reduce the time for applicants, then these teams won't have enough time to raise the money to enter as wild cards. An I don't think it would have been that hard to raise 1000 Euros plus the 5k for tires to see another American at home against the world riders. Hell, a dinner and a meet and greet would have covered all the cost and then some. But now its over. I don't know what's the "real" reason they changed the dead line, but you can bet it was NOT Miller's idea. So here we have a situation where DMG vs Miller is again leaving the American fans out in the cold and trampled by the fall out left in the wake of DMG's pride to get their way or suffer the consequences.
Geez, as if we need more .... to pile on.
Hey lex, stop looking for the official press release, you're not gonna find it. (What happened to you man, this LexFiles .... use to be your member persona, but now when it rather obvious you suddenly can't read between the lines?)
Real conspiracies are rare and it's usually pretty easy to find if you know when and where to look. Jumk, you don't have a conspiracy working, you are blaming a series of unpopular events on an intransigent leadership figure. There is no emphasis on creating a system that will render success, only a desire for populist policy. Hmmmm........sounds eerily close to your politics, actually.
Anywho, I think the DMG contract may have made provisions for as many as 5 riders. Zemke, Hayes, and Bostrom in WSS seem like good wild card entries. Two were probably reserved for Superbike---don't know for whom, though.
What is happening doesn't appear to be beyond the realm of reason. DMG and Miller had a deadline to meet. They pushed negotiations back as far as they could, but Miller probably must have an FIM crew and wild card list by today if DMG are not contractually obligated to provide them.
If you wanna start a conspiracy you need to start with Buell, Harley Davidson, and the DSB class. Then you need to start making some predictions that come true.
Here I'll get you started:
DMG are attempting to fix the sport so Buell wins. Why? Harley has promised an endless supply of advertising dollars. Hacking was suspended because he has the championship lead.
Problem: DiSalvo wasn't suspended as well.
Prediction: DiSalvo will be suspended or DQ'ed at the first available opportunity. Harley Davidson ads will begin to appear regularly on AMA prime time.
Now parlay that into the circumstantial evidence at Miller. Good luck, you know I'm wishing you the best.
