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Amidala
10-26-2002, 12:37 PM
This journalist is not known for warm & fuzzy comments, but this article he wrote about last season(MK, Sarah's win, the future), represents how many, many fans (except rabid fans of MK) feel about how what is going on (in pertaining to how Michelle's skating/program quality) has changed over the years.
I don't know if this link will work, but I'm typing it anyway...

chicagosports.chicagotrib...al%Dprint

To summarize the parts of this article that made the most sense to me pertained to the questioning of why Michelle (who once made it public knowledge that she always prefers to skate to music not done by others, has now (after leaving Frank/Lori), adopted the most "commonly" used music for her skating programs. I'm not trying to diss on MK for this statement of Hersh's, but I was thinking the exact same thing last season when MK choose very "usual"(done before) piece of music to be her most important musical selection for her oly LP. What I think, is that perhaps MK was "not" the one who insisted that her program music be unusual, but more likely it was Lori and Franks idea for their star pupil. Let me say, that there is certainly nothing wrong with MK choosing to skate to common music (because the most commonly used music can be the most beauitful-it's all in how the program's put together). Hersh might not be a charmer, but he writes it like he sees it, its just unfortunate that certain forums would rather tar & feather the man w/ their negative posts and threats of e-mailing the guy (w/ their rage), instead of just seeing "why" the man might be making "some" good points. You don't have to agree w/ everything in the article, but being able to actually "think" about the possible merit of his words-shows the true signs that you're a logical minded and non/overly biased FS fan.
:D :D :D :D :D

Amidala
10-26-2002, 01:11 PM
oops, the website is:
chicagosports.chicagotrib...al%2Dprint

JDC1
10-26-2002, 04:04 PM
There's another thread in skating news that discusses this in more depth if you're interested in other opinions. Frankly I think Phil Hersh sees the truth as he sees it, I see as I see it and so on and so on. As for angry emails, I think Phil can handle them just fine and if people disagree with what Phil sees it their right.

bunghodog
10-26-2002, 10:09 PM
michelle is a great champion.


Keeper of michelles ability to go on and on and on.

Badams
10-27-2002, 12:40 AM
do we really have to have more then one thread on this topic? people are always complaining about too much michelle talk, so why start numerous threads about the same topic?:roll:

Lee
10-27-2002, 12:43 AM
This is true ... there is already a thread on the News forum. Let's keep all the discussion in one place, if we can. Closing this thread. ~Lee