A few days ago (seems like weeks to me), I presented Mark Spitz’s comments about not being invited to Beijing while Michael Phelps was trying to break his record of 7 gold medals. I called Spitz a bitter man in that post because, let’s face it, he definitely had a bitter tone. But I guess I’ll admit that someone did drop the ball by not inviting him. Either way, the Spitz fan base was none too pleased by my remarks if you couldn’t already tell from the comments, and some of them decided to really let me have it. Apparently it’s ride or die with the Spitz crowd, and since I wasn’t riding with them, my site had to die. That’s right — my server was under a Ddos attack (that doesn’t mean any more to me than it does to you) — but apparently my site was getting inundated with repeated requests that brought the site down. I had to move to a temporary IP address for the meantime just to get back up and running. Looks like the problem has finally been solved (thank God), and now I am back in my element, and hopefully you will be able to continue enjoying what I present here on this space. So sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for your continued patronage.
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Glad to see LBS back up and running.
I think it took more that just the Mark Spitz fans to shut down the site…they probably were in collusion with the O.J. Mayo followers and the entire Southeast Conference fan base, too.
Neoconservative fan base backs Spitz.
The Likud Party, with help from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, and Sheldon Alderson, most likely orchestrated the attack.
Wow. I’m glad you got all of that attention. However, the people who tried to get you off of the internet were definitely violating your right to express your views in a public forum.
Mark probably should have been invited, and he certainly has come across as a good sport in subsequent interviews.
That being said, you correctly reported his first comments as “bitter”. maybe he got some good advice in the interim and changed his tune.
Also, everyone took his remarks about not being invited as “the gospel”.
I would like to hear who the “five greatest Olympians” were, which ones were still alive, and who invited them before I accept Mark’s entire statement as factual.
Mark Spitz had a great achievement when we needed it most, at Munich, and his performance should never be discounted. However, when his subsequent televison career went south, he did turn bitter as he lost much of his celebrity status.