Steve Blechman is cheap !!

[wavelength]

That's all industries I think.  Lots of businesspeople got their start in nasty things like drugs or whatever else.  I admit, bodybuilding is perhaps a bit more deep into it, but still.

LOL, are you serious?

[MattT]

How much do you think Tray Brewer gets paid by MD now that he's signed with them?

[body88]

That's all industries I think.  Lots of businesspeople got their start in nasty things like drugs or whatever else.  I admit, bodybuilding is perhaps a bit more deep into it, but still.

Stupidest post I've seen in a long time.  Congrats 

[Matt C]

Stupidest post I've seen in a long time.  Congrats 

I think you're naive if you don't believe all industries have seedy things going on.  I will admit, bodybuilding likely has more of it but part of the reason we might think that is because it's such a visual industry.  Not to mention, the entire "bodybuilding industry" is a very small percentage of the economy.

[CalvinH]

Stupidest post I've seen in a long time.  Congrats 

He is consistent.

[Matt C]

He is consistent.

And you are a fucking moron if you don't think drugs - at 5% of the global economy - are rampant EVERYWHERE.

[CalvinH]

And you are a fucking moron if you don't think drugs - at 5% of the global economy - are rampant EVERYWHERE.

Meltdown

[Matt C]

Meltdown

Opiates and alcohol represent a huge amount of money in the global economy.

[CalvinH]

Opiates and alcohol represent a huge amount of money in the global economy.

Haha,alright that made me lol

[Matt C]

Haha,alright that made me lol

 

[GetItOnNY]

Listen, I don't want to bash Steve Blechman, because he owns and MD.
He does help some athletes out , but not all of them.
He signed Trey Brewer, and Brandon Ray, who both really don't deserve contracts.So why cant he just pay a athlete $500 or even $1000 for a photo shoot.To make matters worse the pics he takes he doesn't give any to the athletes so they can use to market themselves.When the athlete calls for the photos they get the run around.
Quincy Taylor was at the airpot with my on my way back to Vegas.
Quincy Taylor is one huge mofo, but is the coolest cat in the world.
He even said he did a shoot for MD didn't get paid, and couldn't get any of the pics from MD to use for the company who was sponsoring him.
He then said MD want to shoot him again he said no , because he wanted to
paid .So MD tried to call his sponsor to make him do the shoot.
Quincy is smart, he knows, time= money.
You work hard, diet, train, but gear, you should be paid for your efforts
If a smaller company like mine can pay athlete to appear or take pics, I know Steve Blechman can.
Steve Blechman quit being so cheap.Pay these athletes dammit.
Steve wants to be paid by me to advertise in his magazine.
How would he feel if I had him puts adds of my products in his magazine and just said thank you and didn't pay him.He wouldn't go for it.
I tell all the athletes I know, if they don't pay you, just say no.
One photo is free, a photo shoot, you better have a check or cash in hand.
Steve is a multimillionaire, $500 or even a $ 1000 is like $10 to most people.
Steve ...please pay these athletes, or please leave our industry

[Blockhead]

Listen, I don't want to bash Steve Blechman, because he owns and MD.
He does help some athletes out , but not all of them.
He signed Trey Brewer, and Brandon Ray, who both really don't deserve contracts.So why cant he just pay a athlete $500 or even $1000 for a photo shoot.To make matters worse the pics he takes he doesn't give any to the athletes so they can use to market themselves.When the athlete calls for the photos they get the run around.
Quincy Taylor was at the airpot with my on my way back to Vegas.
Quincy Taylor is one huge mofo, but is the coolest cat in the world.
He even said he did a shoot for MD didn't get paid, and couldn't get any of the pics from MD to use for the company who was sponsoring him.
He then said MD want to shoot him again he said no , because he wanted to
paid .So MD tried to call his sponsor to make him do the shoot.
Quincy is smart, he knows, time= money.
You work hard, diet, train, but gear, you should be paid for your efforts
If a smaller company like mine can pay athlete to appear or take pics, I know Steve Blechman can.
Steve Blechman quit being so cheap.Pay these athletes dammit.
Steve wants to be paid by me to advertise in his magazine.
How would he feel if I had him puts adds of my products in his magazine and just said thank you and didn't pay him.He wouldn't go for it.
I tell all the athletes I know, if they don't pay you, just say no.
One photo is free, a photo shoot, you better have a check or cash in hand.
Steve is a multimillionaire, $500 or even a $ 1000 is like $10 to most people.
Steve ...please pay these athletes, or please leave our industry

Yep. Quincy sure knows about time equaling MONEY.  David Jacobs wanted to get paid as well. Or get his 30k back.


 - Block!

[jtsunami]

ohn.


 You know the truth just as much as I do. No matter what. Wether they are 15 or 50... a bodybuilder is a bodybuilder is a bodybuilder. They are liars, flakes, scumbags, lowlifes, mutts, mooches and poor buisnessmen. Steve Buttman knows the psyche of a bodybuilder so why should he throw money at some bodbulder when he knows that 99% of the time the bodybuilder will do it for FREE just for the sake of being in a magazine.

 I don't blame Steve Gluteman. I blame the bodybuilder who just wants to 'play politics' and try to 'look good and positive' for the false hopes that it may help his placing.


 Shawn Ray was never Mr. Olympia because when he was young he knew not to do NOTHING for free for anybody.



 - Block!

um because it comes down to being a decent human being and being fair.  All this cheap scape shit will come back and bite him in his ass in the future.

[240 is Back]

So he tells these guys "We'd like you to do this photo spread.  I will pay you $0 but you will get exposure".


These guys can say yes, or they can say no.  It's that simple.  If every guy asked refused, he would very quickly have to start paying guys.  But many will do it for free.

[funk51]

Listen I dont have Steve Blechman, but I didnt like what he did to Dave and John.Its was just wrong in every shape and form.
Shawn Ray, and Flex Wheeler is doing the same thing and they still have there jobs....Anyways Here is my point.
My athlete did a big spread in MD, and it was alot of pages.
Steve didnt pay the guy a dime!!!!
I was like WTF.
Steve has never had to struggle for money, not one second of his life.
He was given Twinlab.You got these poor athletes who dont make any money unless they get a contract.
Steve Charges something $10,000 per page per month to advertise in his magazine.Yet he puts these 5-10 page spreads on these athletes, and doesnt pay then a dime.Why not give the athlete atleast $500 or $1000 for his time.The athletes eats trains and works his ass off, and yu make money off of the athletes why not pay them?
Steve can I have free advertising in your magazine for free?
Hello no!!!! Bodybuilders, have alot of expenses, you got food, supplements,anabolics and everything else.
Bodybuilding is a very very expensive sport.Just eating costs $200 a week.
Steve Blechamn if you are going to charge supplement companies money to advertise in your magazine, then you should pay athletes for photo shoots.Steve $500 or even $1000 bucks is like $20 to you.
Your a friggin Multi-Millionaire, why not help a few guys out with some money.It is the right thing to do.You know it, I know, the athletes know it.

              i heard larry the legend used to stiff kennedy mmi all the time back in the day. but none beats weider useing dave draper but only paying him for the time he put in ,in the weider warehouses packing orders etc. arnold comes over he gives him 200 a week a car and apartment and all he had to do was train?

[BayGBM]

So he tells these guys "We'd like you to do this photo spread.  I will pay you $0 but you will get exposure".


These guys can say yes, or they can say no.  It's that simple.  If every guy asked refused, he would very quickly have to start paying guys.  But many will do it for free.

QFT.  This is not rocket science.  Why do these idiots work and pose for free only to complain about it later?

[Matt C]

The most popular thread on my message forum is FILLED WITH COCK.  Almost 350,000 views and nothing but dick for 75 pages!

[Van_Bilderass]

Who was cheaper, Weider or Blechman?

 

[swilkins1984]

Exposure in MD? Please at my local Walmart, at one point I was the only guy that bought one. When Dave and John left I stopped completely. Now you see them in the 30% off bin while Flex and Muscle and Fitness sell well. Per Bernal is keeping MD alive with his great photography.

[HTexan]

QFT.  This is not rocket science.  Why do these idiots work and pose for free only to complain about it later?

i didn't know bbers got paid for mag photo shoots. I assumed that the IFBB made they do that for free? 
About how much do they get?

[Captain Equipoise]

No bodybuilder simply will disagree because of ego and pride, being able to tell your mom and all your friends that you're in or on the cover of an internationally circulate magazine...

[GetItOnNY]

Listen bodybuilding is the hardest sport in the world.I played semi- pro football as a nose guard I ran track, I ran Cross country, I powerlifted, I played baseball,Softball, you name it I did it.
None of them are as hard as bodybuilder, or as expensive as bodybuilding.
If I can pay ATHLETES, to make appearances, and to use his image so can MD.
The owner Steve Blechman makes more money in a day then I make in a month.
I want everybody to know he is cheap so maybe he will loosen up and start paying people.Then like I said before I will publically apologise to Steve and thank him for paying athletes
I help alot of athletes...There are a alot of guys I helped some even turned pro.I sponsored Troy Alves, when he was an amateur and up to the first year he was a pro.I payed all his expenses, and payed him for his images, and to be at our booths.He did not have any help or sponsors.To this day true respects me to helping him out. At the time my company was half the size it was now.I have helped out at least 2 dozen local and National athletes with product ,all there expenses,pay them for pics and pay them for being at my booths.
My point is, if I am a growing company and I can people so can Steve Blechman.I could do the same he does, and say, why pay you, your image is on my site, you picture is on all my brochures.... that exposure.
At the end of the day, exposure doesn't pay your bills, it doesn't support your family.Money however does.

[Blockhead]

Listen bodybuilding is the hardest sport in the world.I played semi- pro football as a nose guard I ran track, I ran Cross country, I powerlifted, I played baseball,Softball, you name it I did it.
None of them are as hard as bodybuilder, or as expensive as bodybuilding.
If I can pay ATHLETES, to make appearances, and to use his image so can MD.
The owner Steve Blechman makes more money in a day then I make in a month.
I want everybody to know he is cheap so maybe he will loosen up and start paying people.Then like I said before I will publically apologise to Steve and thank him for paying athletes
I help alot of athletes...There are a alot of guys I helped some even turned pro.I sponsored Troy Alves, when he was an amateur and up to the first year he was a pro.I payed all his expenses, and payed him for his images, and to be at our booths.He did not have any help or sponsors.To this day true respects me to helping him out. At the time my company was half the size it was now.I have helped out at least 2 dozen local and National athletes with product ,all there expenses,pay them for pics and pay them for being at my booths.
My point is, if I am a growing company and I can people so can Steve Blechman.I could do the same he does, and say, why pay you, your image is on my site, you picture is on all my brochures.... that exposure.
At the end of the day, exposure doesn't pay your bills, it doesn't support your family.Money however does.

We all get your point and we agree with you, John but you have to understand. Picture this...


 You have a huge front and backyard. You have little time to do landscaping so you decide to pay a local landscaping buisness to send out a few Mexicans to mow your lawn, trim some hedges and weed wack for you. $150/week is what it will cost you.

 Then you get a knock at your door and another landscaping crew says we'll do the same work for you but we'll do it for FREE. Just because.


 What would you do?


 Steve Gluteman is a closet-homo who has an infatuation with bodybuilders. Everybody knows that. He doesn't pay people because he doesn't have to. Not to talk shit about Burnekia but I am wouldn't be suprised if when he was contacted by Gluteman he told Gluteman before anything... "Oh, dank u Meesta Buttman. I do good job 4 u.. and u don' got to pay me nuting cuz it is honor to be in yer mahgahzine..."



 - Block!

[uberman09]

Everything that's right about Canada is capitalist, everything that is wrong about Canada is socialist, with very little exception.

I wish politicians around here would get the fucking clue, but no - they call for more and more socialism. 

north america is going the european way. First step is to import millions of third worlders in the main cities.

[GetItOnNY]

Block, you are 100% right....The line you said was funny about the way Roberts talks that hilarious. This is classic u don' got to pay me noting cuz it is honor to be in yer mahgahzine...", omg lmfao.
Md has been Roberts jocks about a photo shoot for quite some time now.After they saw that he was hard at his guest posing, it made there mouths water.
Robert is a freak that is beyond freaks.
Robert will sell MD a shi/#$ load of magazines.I white guy with 24 " arms 21" calves, and is bigger then Jay, and he isn't even a pro.This I know I seen Robert stand net to at least a dozen of them and he dwarfs them.
Block I told Robert if they don't have a check or money in there hand tell them no.I said Robert, if I am 25% the size of MD and I can pay you for your time, so should they .If MD was smart they would drop Lunch Trey Brewera aswell as Brandon Ray and pick up Robert.He is got 100000000 times more potential.
Roberts has only done 5 bodybuilding shows, and only been bodybuilding for 4 years and took top 5 at the USA and 2nd the first time he did Nationals.