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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Stormcloud on October 26, 2007, 12:49:00 PM
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What an accomplishment there!
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Is this considered a trade?
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Melvin's contract does not end until October 31st with MD. And Shawn's contract does not end until October 31st with MuscleMag. As for where Melvin is going... hmmm..... does it have anything to do with PBW's show on Monday night. Will there be an announcement there?
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MD likes everything to be a package deal. You make a deal, they touch your package.
For real though, can't they just leave the guys alone? Can't Melvin sit down to watch Monday night football without getting a call from Steve or Dave begging him to come on the "internet radio" show? Can't Toney get ready for a show without Dave calling him every other day to find out what he's eating and how much he weighs?
Can't Steve's wife just write the checks without asking these guys to do so much? I mean it's bad enough they have to talk to Ron Harris every month about their training routines so Ron can go and write their bylined articles, but do they really want to shoot videos, have lunches with the 'muscle mafia', do an "internet radio" show no one except BigAssTriceps listens to, and have to check in with "the boss" every other day to talk training with a 145 lb guy?
Just cut them a friggin' check and leave them alone!
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MD likes everything to be a package deal. You make a deal, they touch your package.
;D
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Wow, this is GREAT! Lose two guys that are current competitors, large fan base and have obvious years left in them to compete. Then MD decides to sign a guy who has been publicly retired for 6+ years and has a shitty reputation with fellow competitors, judges and fans. Go figure!
Oh, and i'm sure Shawn will have some "influence" as to who stays and who goes. Much like when Melvin left VyoTech.
Blechman tries so hard to be accepted, he's obviously willing to pay a has-been and lose two guys.
I say the Patriots should bring back Doug Flutie and drop Tom Brady!! ::)
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Did Melvin leave because of his hatred for S. Ray? Can't blame the guy if he did.
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MD sucks. All you need is getbig ;D
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Melvin's contract does not end until October 31st with MD. And Shawn's contract does not end until October 31st with MuscleMag. As for where Melvin is going... hmmm..... does it have anything to do with PBW's show on Monday night. Will there be an announcement there?
Ron,
Are you saying that we shed Shawn Ray off our backs and, in turn, are getting Melvin and Toney to Post here in order to bring in some fresh air?
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Honestly Ron, if you were to publish a monthly magazine titled "GETBIG", people would so just buy the magazine as opposed to MD. Give Special Ed, Goatboy, Squadfather, McFarland, Bluto, Power Rod and Myself and a few others a column and that shit would be gold. Along with all the other IFBB pros that you can get on board, why else would someone want to buy MD? We can use sexual mustard for the funny art etc..
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Shawn Ray is to Steve Blechman as Beetlejuice is to Howard Stern. Only in America...
(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/894/beetlejuice1hu.jpg)
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Ron,
Are you saying that we shed Shawn Ray off our backs and, in turn, are getting Melvin and Toney to Post here in order to bring in some fresh air?
Melvin and Toney already post here
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thats like trading two one hundred dollar bills for a couple quarters and some monopoly money.
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sounds like a bad move to me. they do have alot of columns. i wonder if they could alternate the athletes every other month or something
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Well if there's one thing we've all learned from Shawn's 15 years with AMI/Weider and his 9 videos, it's that we know we won't learn anything new from Shawn Ray.
Then again, when you look like this at 21, what exactly can he tell us other than the code to his DNA?
(http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/drobson57fbig.jpg)
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.....we all know he looked good at 21. But he's still the biggest A-Hole in the history of the IFBB.
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Who gives a shit about Melvin. He is lazy, hes a prick, and the most over rated guy on stage. Once again he got a gift at the O, should have been 7th or 8th.
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This just in from the Miami Herald:
"In a surpirse move, the Miami Heat have released D. Wade and Shaq and signed former great Tim Hardaway. While Hardaway won't actually play, he will do video interviews in the locker room and post on the Heat message board."
You see, there actually is someone dumber than Blechwoman.
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Well if there's one thing we've all learned from Shawn's 15 years with AMI/Weider and his 9 videos, it's that we know we won't learn anything new from Shawn Ray.
Then again, when you look like this at 21, what exactly can he tell us other than the code to his DNA?
(http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/drobson57fbig.jpg)
damn thats some physique.
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We need some more pros posting here. Ron, make it happen :)
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MD likes everything to be a package deal. You make a deal, they touch your package.
For real though, can't they just leave the guys alone? Can't Melvin sit down to watch Monday night football without getting a call from Steve or Dave begging him to come on the "internet radio" show? Can't Toney get ready for a show without Dave calling him every other day to find out what he's eating and how much he weighs?
Can't Steve's wife just write the checks without asking these guys to do so much? I mean it's bad enough they have to talk to Ron Harris every month about their training routines so Ron can go and write their bylined articles, but do they really want to shoot videos, have lunches with the 'muscle mafia', do an "internet radio" show no one except BigAssTriceps listens to, and have to check in with "the boss" every other day to talk training with a 145 lb guy?
Just cut them a friggin' check and leave them alone!
Counselor..sometimes athletes (wwell BB's) have to actually work to make some money, if that work is a phone interview or talking shop with the boss - so be it. It is not like they are in the lab creating a cure for cancer or heart diseases now, right? They lift a weight up and lower it or some variation of that in addition to eating...tough job!
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Honestly Ron, if you were to publish a monthly magazine titled "GETBIG", people would so just buy the magazine as opposed to MD. Give Special Ed, Goatboy, Squadfather, McFarland, Bluto, Power Rod and Myself and a few others a column and that shit would be gold. Along with all the other IFBB pros that you can get on board, why else would someone want to buy MD? We can use sexual mustard for the funny art etc..
WHAT ABOUT THE INFAMOUS BIG KUBBY IN THERE HUH :'(
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We need some more pros posting here. Ron, make it happen :)
I'm pretty sure that a lot of pros are on here. But there are only a few who have the nuts to post under their real names.
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MD likes everything to be a package deal. You make a deal, they touch your package.
For real though, can't they just leave the guys alone? Can't Melvin sit down to watch Monday night football without getting a call from Steve or Dave begging him to come on the "internet radio" show? Can't Toney get ready for a show without Dave calling him every other day to find out what he's eating and how much he weighs?
Can't Steve's wife just write the checks without asking these guys to do so much? I mean it's bad enough they have to talk to Ron Harris every month about their training routines so Ron can go and write their bylined articles, but do they really want to shoot videos, have lunches with the 'muscle mafia', do an "internet radio" show no one except BigAssTriceps listens to, and have to check in with "the boss" every other day to talk training with a 145 lb guy?
Just cut them a friggin' check and leave them alone!
You're right, getting extra exposure in a variety of forms so that you can keep in touch with your fans sucks. ::)
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MD likes everything to be a package deal. You make a deal, they touch your package.
For real though, can't they just leave the guys alone? Can't Melvin sit down to watch Monday night football without getting a call from Steve or Dave begging him to come on the "internet radio" show? Can't Toney get ready for a show without Dave calling him every other day to find out what he's eating and how much he weighs?
Can't Steve's wife just write the checks without asking these guys to do so much? I mean it's bad enough they have to talk to Ron Harris every month about their training routines so Ron can go and write their bylined articles, but do they really want to shoot videos, have lunches with the 'muscle mafia', do an "internet radio" show no one except BigAssTriceps listens to, and have to check in with "the boss" every other day to talk training with a 145 lb guy?
Just cut them a friggin' check and leave them alone!
I spoke to Melvin Anthony just LAST NIGHT and trust me he can care LESS about losing his affiliation with MD. Trust me on that. He is NOT losing sleep and will probably sleep even better now.
This is a company that is ran by a guy(Blechman) who, does genuinely love bodybuilding and genuinely does love his product and giving back to an industry that treated him and his family so handsomely(Twinlab) but then ironically, he hires a local boy(Guess who!) who in his own right does have great knowledge and is a very educated in his chosen field of bodybuilding study and let's him have some power instead of keeping him confined to just a simple 'Question&Answer' about bodybuilding pharmacology.
They say POWER corrupts and Absolute Power corrupts ABSOLUTELY. This same guy turns around and uses the power granted to him to turn MD from a respected magazine, in a time when magazines are soon becomming obsolete as it gave us truth about gear usage and entertaining tidbits in an industry made to look like fantasy land by the WEST COAST empire, to a complete joke! He gives this guy an INCH and he takes a MILE with the poorly organized fued he started with True Adonis and Derek Anthony. Then he goes and starts this radio show, which could be something but perverts it by 'whacking people' who didn't fit in MD's/NYC/East Coast scene, then he lies to Steve and uses the Jedi Mind Trick on Steve to dupe him into believeing that there is/was a legit need for hiring or cutting a paycheck to a Billy Gunns? A Mr. G? Colette Nelson?
Who...what...WTF?!? This is when I stopped buying MD at the 7-11 on the corner of my crib. When it became an EAST COAST/NYC magazine with nothing but pics of these circus freaky friends of this guy who are 100% completely riding the coat-tails of Steve's blind generosity. To cut a paycheck for Mr. G? Mr. G. 'Train With Mr. G call...' Billy Gunns? Billy is a toadie who got kicked out of mommy's house then bunked up with Dave/Colette. Mr. G is this once homeless dude who is a local gyms' mascot who did a small time show. A paycheck needs to be cut for them? All expense trips need to be paid for these clowns? Then they use it to promote...themselves? They associate themselves with a Derek Anthony? For pete's sakes does Steve think about the HARDWORKING people in the cubicles, in the office of MD working hard to get everything in before deadline to get the magazine out on time so they can get paid and eat and go home ot their apartments/homes with mortgages? How do you think they feel to see extra money being cut from THEIR hard work to...a Mr. G? Billy Gunns? How many meals has a Colette or a Mr. G or a Billy Gunns gotten for FREE because of Steve's blindness?
Let this question be asked...how does respected buisness associates like a Flex Wheeler or anyone els feel about this person 'spreading the wealth' to his local gym buddies?
"...hey, no problem. I got Steve in my back-pocket. You wanna go to the Olympia and party? Sure...no problem. I'll tell Steve that you have to be my...eh, my ummm...my...my 'assistant production microphone holder'. That's it! Perfect. Then he'll say...'Okay' and we'll go to the Olympia and you can promote yourself and we'll just eat dinners on Steve and party and in the mean time we'll spit in everyone at MD's offices' face while my girlfriend stuffs more steak down her throat and guzzles more red wine...no prob! "
They let go of a REAL talent in Special Ed who could have brought in comedy that MD desperately needed and a fresh new perspective of the BB industry from the eys of a great witty pundit who knows the industry better than most. So much talent wasted because SpecialEd was a 'POSITION'. He was an OBSTACLE. With him on board it would have been harder to get a...Billy Gunns or a Mr. G all expense paid trips and more food paid for whoever els fits in that freaky entorage(sp?).
Steve also gets duped into signing NOTHING but NYC/EAST COAST BB's for a 'Q&A'. Who the FUCK gives a rats ass what Kai Greene or a Ben 'Milk Tits' White has to say? What a waste of money. Give all the people at the MD office a 1% raise with that money for a fkn...Desmond Miller 'Q&A'. I promise you that the magazine wouldn't skip a beat without a....'NY GIANT Q&A' and the magazine would be even better if everyone got that 1% raise. The morale would be higher and everyone would be more loyal and more productive.
Just my point of view...
TheBlock 'Shane from CHICAGO' Head.
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I spoke to Melvin Anthony just LAST NIGHT and trust me he can care LESS about losing his affiliation with MD. Trust me on that. He is NOT losing sleep and will probably sleep even better now.
This is a company that is ran by a guy(Blechman) who, does genuinely love bodybuilding and genuinely does love his product and giving back to an industry that treated him and his family so handsomely(Twinlab) but then ironically, he hires a local boy(Guess who!) who in his own right does have great knowledge and is a very educated in his chosen field of bodybuilding study and let's him have some power instead of keeping him confined to just a simple 'Question&Answer' about bodybuilding pharmacology.
They say POWER corrupts and Absolute Power corrupts ABSOLUTELY. This same guy turns around and uses the power granted to him to turn MD from a respected magazine, in a time when magazines are soon becomming obsolete as it gave us truth about gear usage and entertaining tidbits in an industry made to look like fantasy land by the WEST COAST empire, to a complete joke! He gives this guy an INCH and he takes a MILE with the poorly organized fued he started with True Adonis and Derek Anthony. Then he goes and starts this radio show, which could be something but perverts it by 'whacking people' who didn't fit in MD's/NYC/East Coast scene, then he lies to Steve and uses the Jedi Mind Trick on Steve to dupe him into believeing that there is/was a legit need for hiring or cutting a paycheck to a Billy Gunns? A Mr. G? Colette Nelson?
Who...what...WTF?!? This is when I stopped buying MD at the 7-11 on the corner of my crib. When it became an EAST COAST/NYC magazine with nothing but pics of these circus freaky friends of this guy who are 100% completely riding the coat-tails of Steve's blind generosity. To cut a paycheck for Mr. G? Mr. G. 'Train With Mr. G call...' Billy Gunns? Billy is a toadie who got kicked out of mommy's house then bunked up with Dave/Colette. Mr. G is this once homeless dude who is a local gyms' mascot who did a small time show. A paycheck needs to be cut for them? All expense trips need to be paid for these clowns? Then they use it to promote...themselves? They associate themselves with a Derek Anthony? For pete's sakes does Steve think about the HARDWORKING people in the cubicles, in the office of MD working hard to get everything in before deadline to get the magazine out on time so they can get paid and eat and go home ot their apartments/homes with mortgages? How do you think they feel to see extra money being cut from THEIR hard work to...a Mr. G? Billy Gunns? How many meals has a Colette or a Mr. G or a Billy Gunns gotten for FREE because of Steve's blindness?
Let this question be asked...how does respected buisness associates like a Flex Wheeler or anyone els feel about this person 'spreading the wealth' to his local gym buddies?
"...hey, no problem. I got Steve in my back-pocket. You wanna go to the Olympia and party? Sure...no problem. I'll tell Steve that you have to be my...eh, my ummm...my...my 'assistant production microphone holder'. That's it! Perfect. Then he'll say...'Okay' and we'll go to the Olympia and you can promote yourself and we'll just eat dinners on Steve and party and in the mean time we'll spit in everyone at MD's offices' face while my girlfriend stuffs more steak down her throat and guzzles more red wine...no prob! "
They let go of a REAL talent in Special Ed who could have brought in comedy that MD desperately needed and a fresh new perspective of the BB industry from the eys of a great witty pundit who knows the industry better than most. So much talent wasted because SpecialEd was a 'POSITION'. He was an OBSTACLE. With him on board it would have been harder to get a...Billy Gunns or a Mr. G all expense paid trips and more food paid for whoever els fits in that freaky entorage(sp?).
Steve also gets duped into signing NOTHING but NYC/EAST COAST BB's for a 'Q&A'. Who the FUCK gives a rats ass what Kai Greene or a Ben 'Milk Tits' White has to say? What a waste of money. Give all the people at the MD office a 1% raise with that money for a fkn...Desmond Miller 'Q&A'. I promise you that the magazine wouldn't skip a beat without a....'NY GIANT Q&A' and the magazine would be even better if everyone got that 1% raise. The morale would be higher and everyone would be more loyal and more productive.
Just my point of view...
TheBlock 'Shane from CHICAGO' Head.
quoted for the truth.
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Thanks, mate...
I hope Steve reads this to. I know he will actually.
I hope I get his wheels turning here and he wakes the fk up. I used to LOVE MD Magazine. I will never buy another copy at 7-11 over on Talcott Ave/Devon in Park Ridge, IL until I see change and everyone in his office gets a 1% raise.
Until then I am buying Ironman every month as I have been. I still love to read a magazine. At age 29 I guess I'm 'old school'.
Oh yea...at the ASC 07...they hire Lauren Powers to do 'microphone' work for them and what does she do? She tapes over 'MD' on the microphone and puts a 'Lauren Powers.com' label over it. Hahahaha...
That pretty much sums everything up. Steve is being taken advantage of by leech, blood sucking trolls.
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Bump!
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Bump!
Hey Block, Double CC said stop talking about his baby mother and son. He doesn't play that shit bro. :o ;D
SGT D
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Thanks, mate...
I hope Steve reads this to. I know he will actually.
I hope I get his wheels turning here and he wakes the fk up. I used to LOVE MD Magazine. I will never buy another copy at 7-11 over on Talcott Ave/Devon in Park Ridge, IL until I see change and everyone in his office gets a 1% raise.
Until then I am buying Ironman every month as I have been. I still love to read a magazine. At age 29 I guess I'm 'old school'.
Oh yea...at the ASC 07...they hire Lauren Powers to do 'microphone' work for them and what does she do? She tapes over 'MD' on the microphone and puts a 'Lauren Powers.com' label over it. Hahahaha...
That pretty much sums everything up. Steve is being taken advantage of by leech, blood sucking trolls.
I agree, Steve takes alot of shit in here, but he seems to generally love BB, it's a shame that a few guido clowns are destroying the magazine and it's reputation. I used to look foward to it coming out but I read the last issue and was disgusted. The whole Ben White article was bullshit, IMO MuscleMag is the best one around.
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Hey Block, Double CC said stop talking about his baby mother and son. He doesn't play that shit bro. :o ;D
SGT D
What?
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I agree, Steve takes alot of shit in here, but he seems to generally love BB, it's a shame that a few guido clowns are destroying the magazine and it's reputation. I used to look foward to it coming out but I read the last issue and was disgusted. The whole Ben White article was bullshit, IMO MuscleMag is the best one around.
I agree. I've been reading Ironman. The contest coverage and industry inside news is way better.
MD just promotes NYC and the whole seedy NYC scene...with GASP clothing.
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I agree. I've been reading Ironman. The contest coverage and industry inside news is way better.
MD just promotes NYC and the whole seedy NYC scene...with GASP clothing.
I like Ironman too. The thing is those mags get you excited about BB. You read MD you see Palumbo give out drug advice to drop a horse and Romano's ramblings. Who wants to be associated with that? Showing photos of DA and Billy don't help either, they are EXACTLY what is wrong with the mag.
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where is Ironman for sale? I never see it.
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where is Ironman for sale? I never see it.
i don't go out of my way to look for it, but the only place i see it is 7-11, you could try Barnes and Noble or something like that too.
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Well if there's one thing we've all learned from Shawn's 15 years with AMI/Weider and his 9 videos, it's that we know we won't learn anything new from Shawn Ray.
Then again, when you look like this at 21, what exactly can he tell us other than the code to his DNA?
(http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/drobson57fbig.jpg)
And the phone number to his roid connection
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Manion once commented that Sean had the most genetic superior physique he had ever witnessed!...Now that is saying something.
Sean is still the 'benchmark' for Bodybuilding perfection.
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Manion once commented that Sean had the most genetic superior physique he had ever witnessed!...Now that is saying something.
Sean is still the 'benchmark' for Bodybuilding perfection.
For sub 5'6 bodybuilders that is.