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.
