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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Jul 28, 2021 2:25:18 GMT
Steve Dalkowski. Minor League pitcher who supposedly could hit 110 mph.inspiration for Nuke LaLoosh. He probably just had a low IQ and couldn’t handle the spotlight. Now a team would have helped him and he might have need something.
Rube Waddell. I think some of the stories are embellished. In Ken Burns doc, he was called a sociopath. Just a harmless kid.
Marty Bergen. Best for last. Did a Lizzie Borden on his wife and kid then cut his own throat
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Post by Surly on Jul 28, 2021 2:42:22 GMT
Choking is a mental health issue now? Peyton Manning, A-Rod, Greg Norman, the 2004 NY Yankees, the 2007 Patriots, the list goes on and on. I just watched the final and I'm more annoyed after having actually seen it. So you screwed up a vault. I get it, this stuff is hard. Two of the Russian girls fell off the balance beam. Did they quit and ask for replacements? No, they finished their routines and their team won gold. I'm not upset that Biles choked, it happens to the best of them. I'm just blown away that an athlete of her caliber would simply quit because she got caught up in the moment.
LOL!!
I've just never heard anyone describe it as a "mental health" issue like Biles did. Maybe I'm reading this wrong but it just struck me as kind of peculiar. I wish her well in the future but yeah, maybe she meant it as an excuse like "hey I choked, but it was because of my mental health issues, not because I suck today".
I feel it kind of robbed the Russians of a chance to say they "beat the American team that featured Simone Biles". I didn't like it either. you don't quit in the middle of the damn competition like that. But still, why would she bring up mental health? hmmm...
I think she just psyched herself out. She said stuff like having more pressure than anyone else (probably true), not being able to feed off of the energy of a crowd, not having her family in the stands, not being able to sense where she was in the air. But most - if not all - of those things were things all of the other competitors had to deal with. Even been talk from the media a lot about how will she handle pressure. I watched her before that vault that led to her quitting. She moved around a lot like she wasn’t even sure where she should start running at the springboard! Sounds like all of this stuff psyched her out. Rather than push herself through a mediocre or bad performance, she “had to protect her mental health” - which sounds like one more way she psyched herself out. |
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Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on Jul 28, 2021 7:22:35 GMT
Not sure what effect her pulling out had on the team's overall chances (i.e. whether it was still best 2 scores from 3 competitors?) but the cynic in me was wondering if she'd have the same "mental health issues" in her individual events.
However, to be fair, she's now also pulled out of the individual all-around competition. Let's see if she also withdraws from her other finals...
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Post by sdm3 on Jul 28, 2021 13:10:40 GMT
Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Robin Lehner - bipolar.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jul 28, 2021 13:37:02 GMT
DC Fan - too long to list all of his mental ailments and deficiencies
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Post by masterofallgoons on Jul 28, 2021 13:39:32 GMT
Barrett Robbins, center for the Raiders, went missing from the team just before the Super Bowl. Turned out he went to Tiajuana and said he thought he'd thought, in his delusion, that they'd already won the game and he was celebrating. He was later eventually diagnosed as bipolar after many substance abuse and legal issues. He was sentenced to years of probation for attempted murder and has been in and out of rehab and jail for decades now.
Alonzo Spellman was another guy who was a gifted NFL lineman (defensive in his case) who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. He also had run-ins with substance and legal issues. It doesn't seem to have been as dramatic as Robbins for him, but there was a crazy story when he made a scene on a flight and they had to make an emergency landing.
Both guys have had a pretty awful post football life it seems.
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Post by NJtoTX on Jul 28, 2021 13:45:44 GMT
The thing that bugs me about Biles is her offhand interviews where she sounds almost Valley girl saying it should be fun, and she's not having fun out there.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Jul 28, 2021 14:39:09 GMT
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Jul 28, 2021 14:41:56 GMT
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Jul 28, 2021 14:54:23 GMT
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Jul 28, 2021 14:57:15 GMT
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Jul 28, 2021 15:04:05 GMT
Oliver McCall
Ok...I'm done
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Post by stickman38 on Jul 28, 2021 15:09:05 GMT
The thing that bugs me about Biles is her offhand interviews where she sounds almost Valley girl saying it should be fun, and she's not having fun out there.
I just hope she isn't remembered for this. It would be a shame for the greatest female gymnast ever to be remembered for that time she "quit" right in the middle of the Olympics. Time will tell...
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jul 28, 2021 15:23:38 GMT
Ben Simmons
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Jul 28, 2021 15:28:26 GMT
I was looking for a GIF of him passing up that dunk in the playoffs and I couldn't find one 
Who says I can't laugh at myself? 
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Post by _ on Jul 28, 2021 15:34:29 GMT
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Post by mtbg on Jul 28, 2021 16:03:33 GMT
The thing that bugs me about Biles is her offhand interviews where she sounds almost Valley girl saying it should be fun, and she's not having fun out there.
I just hope she isn't remembered for this. It would be a shame for the greatest female gymnast ever to be remembered for that time she "quit" right in the middle of the Olympics. Time will tell...
It's inevitable. It's a part of her story now. Some will always hold it against her and some will dismiss it as a negative but either way, it will always be remembered. Roberto Duran was a great boxer but many will always remember him most for the No Mas vs Sugar Ray.
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Post by stickman38 on Jul 28, 2021 16:14:35 GMT
Should Chad 'Ochocinco' Johnson be added to this list?
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jul 28, 2021 16:27:29 GMT
Jim Piersall
Paul Gascoigne
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Jul 28, 2021 16:32:23 GMT
scott hall, jake roberts, jeff hardy......
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