Comments on: Prediction Market at Work? http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/05/prediction-mark.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:19:20 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Scott Wiggins http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/05/prediction-mark.html/comment-page-1#comment-11442 Scott Wiggins Tue, 27 May 2008 22:13:28 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/05/prediction-mark.html #comment-11442 <p>I'll take my sports without the psychodrama...Plenty of eye-candy around in other venues.</p> I’ll take my sports without the psychodrama…Plenty of eye-candy around in other venues.

]]> By: ParatrooperJJ http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/05/prediction-mark.html/comment-page-1#comment-11441 ParatrooperJJ Tue, 27 May 2008 15:26:57 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/05/prediction-mark.html #comment-11441 <p>I can't wait to see her in a GoDaddy t-shirt!</p> I can’t wait to see her in a GoDaddy t-shirt!

]]> By: Solar Lad http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/05/prediction-mark.html/comment-page-1#comment-11440 Solar Lad Tue, 27 May 2008 09:10:07 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/05/prediction-mark.html #comment-11440 <p>GOOD for the sport, I'd say. After all, the public doesn't know any of the names of "the guys who win races" in the IRL.</p> <p>They do know Danica.</p> GOOD for the sport, I’d say. After all, the public doesn’t know any of the names of “the guys who win races” in the IRL.

They do know Danica.

]]> By: Scott Wiggins http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/05/prediction-mark.html/comment-page-1#comment-11439 Scott Wiggins Tue, 27 May 2008 02:05:50 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/05/prediction-mark.html #comment-11439 <p>While the guys win the races, the Danica Patrick endorsement millions just continue to roll in...Bad for the sport and the individual I would say. The endorsements traditionally go to the champions, not the also rans. You couldn't get thru Atlanta Heartsfield on Friday without tripping over a Danica poster. Crock of %$$#!</p> While the guys win the races, the Danica Patrick endorsement millions just continue to roll in…Bad for the sport and the individual I would say. The endorsements traditionally go to the champions, not the also rans. You couldn’t get thru Atlanta Heartsfield on Friday without tripping over a Danica poster. Crock of %$$#!

]]> By: David Zetland http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/05/prediction-mark.html/comment-page-1#comment-11438 David Zetland Mon, 26 May 2008 13:34:30 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/05/prediction-mark.html #comment-11438 <p>from AP (http://tinyurl.com/4jox9w)</p> <p>Patrick didn't win Sunday's Indianapolis 500. Didn't even come close, really. But she certainly managed to remain the center of attention after a pit road accident left her strutting menacingly toward a rival driver's pit stall.</p> <p>"It's probably a better idea that I didn't make it all the way down there anyway," Patrick said. "Because, well, as you guys know, I'm a little emotional."</p> <p>After a late-race run-in with Ryan Briscoe on pit road, Patrick climbed out of her car and seemed to be on her way to a confrontation with Briscoe's pit crew. Patrick's gloves literally had come off by the time track security managed to talk her out of it.</p> <p>Scott Dixon went on to win, but Patrick's outburst instantly became the most memorable moment from Sunday's race — and the latest chapter in a cult of personality that is developing around the IndyCar series' hottest commodity.</p> from AP (http://tinyurl.com/4jox9w)

Patrick didn’t win Sunday’s Indianapolis 500. Didn’t even come close, really. But she certainly managed to remain the center of attention after a pit road accident left her strutting menacingly toward a rival driver’s pit stall.

“It’s probably a better idea that I didn’t make it all the way down there anyway,” Patrick said. “Because, well, as you guys know, I’m a little emotional.”

After a late-race run-in with Ryan Briscoe on pit road, Patrick climbed out of her car and seemed to be on her way to a confrontation with Briscoe’s pit crew. Patrick’s gloves literally had come off by the time track security managed to talk her out of it.

Scott Dixon went on to win, but Patrick’s outburst instantly became the most memorable moment from Sunday’s race — and the latest chapter in a cult of personality that is developing around the IndyCar series’ hottest commodity.

]]> By: MFH http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/05/prediction-mark.html/comment-page-1#comment-11437 MFH Sun, 25 May 2008 14:21:36 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/05/prediction-mark.html #comment-11437 <p>Um... normally I'm in agreement with things like this. In most cases, I would have said she's getting these agreements because she's female, yes...</p> <p>Yahoo! Top News Search today:<br /> Danica Patrick.</p> <p>Hrm... seems a little self-explanatory as to why a company might want to associate itself with this person. It might be a bit of self-feeding mechanism (she's popular because she's female, which bolsters companies to her, which increases her popularity), but it still seems like a valid reason to back her.</p> <p>Besides, since when was endorsement a validation of skill? </p> Um… normally I’m in agreement with things like this. In most cases, I would have said she’s getting these agreements because she’s female, yes…

Yahoo! Top News Search today:
Danica Patrick.

Hrm… seems a little self-explanatory as to why a company might want to associate itself with this person. It might be a bit of self-feeding mechanism (she’s popular because she’s female, which bolsters companies to her, which increases her popularity), but it still seems like a valid reason to back her.

Besides, since when was endorsement a validation of skill?

]]> By: Bob Smith http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/05/prediction-mark.html/comment-page-1#comment-11436 Bob Smith Sun, 25 May 2008 07:13:00 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/05/prediction-mark.html #comment-11436 <blockquote>Danica Patrick finished 4th in her first Indy 500. Her next year she was 8th, and then 8th the next year too. That was in 2007. You need skill to do that, hell you need skill to even qualify.</blockquote> The point was never that she has no skill. The point was that the size and number of endorsement contracts offered to her are in great disproportion to her success on the track. Complaints about sexism and unearned privilege that emanate from the usual suspects are deafening in their absence.

Danica Patrick finished 4th in her first Indy 500. Her next year she was 8th, and then 8th the next year too. That was in 2007. You need skill to do that, hell you need skill to even qualify.

The point was never that she has no skill. The point was that the size and number of endorsement contracts offered to her are in great disproportion to her success on the track. Complaints about sexism and unearned privilege that emanate from the usual suspects are deafening in their absence.

]]> By: happyjuggler0 http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/05/prediction-mark.html/comment-page-1#comment-11435 happyjuggler0 Sun, 25 May 2008 03:08:13 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/05/prediction-mark.html #comment-11435 <p>Danica Patrick finished 4th in her first Indy 500. Her next year she was 8th, and then 8th the next year too. That was in 2007. You need skill to do that, hell you need skill to even qualify.</p> <p>Sports illustrated Photos from 2008 <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2008_swimsuit/danica-patrick/" rel="nofollow"> here</a>. I wouldn't kick her off the beach.</p> Danica Patrick finished 4th in her first Indy 500. Her next year she was 8th, and then 8th the next year too. That was in 2007. You need skill to do that, hell you need skill to even qualify.

Sports illustrated Photos from 2008 here. I wouldn’t kick her off the beach.

]]> By: Solar Lad http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/05/prediction-mark.html/comment-page-1#comment-11434 Solar Lad Sun, 25 May 2008 02:49:10 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/05/prediction-mark.html #comment-11434 <p>The comments about Anna Kournikova being "unsuccessful", "not much of a threat" and "not a top tennis player" are ignorant. </p> <p>Anna has beaten Monica Seles, Conchita Martinez, Lindsay Davenport, and Martina Hingis, among many others, was once ranked #8 in singles play, #1 in doubles play, and has won literally dozens of doubles titles and tourneys. <br /> </p> The comments about Anna Kournikova being “unsuccessful”, “not much of a threat” and “not a top tennis player” are ignorant.

Anna has beaten Monica Seles, Conchita Martinez, Lindsay Davenport, and Martina Hingis, among many others, was once ranked #8 in singles play, #1 in doubles play, and has won literally dozens of doubles titles and tourneys.

]]> By: Dr. T http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/05/prediction-mark.html/comment-page-1#comment-11433 Dr. T Sat, 24 May 2008 22:52:30 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/05/prediction-mark.html #comment-11433 <p>I haven't seen Danika Patrick, so I don't know about her visual appeal. Anna Kournikova got her endorsement contracts because she was a beautiful woman and model who played tennis, not because she was a top tennis player who looked OK.</p> I haven’t seen Danika Patrick, so I don’t know about her visual appeal. Anna Kournikova got her endorsement contracts because she was a beautiful woman and model who played tennis, not because she was a top tennis player who looked OK.

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