Yahoo! Sports has a column asking the question: "Competitive Eating: Sport or Mental Disorder?"

November 29, 2011 at 9:59 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Health | Permalink * Comments (19)

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  1. Anonymous said

    November 29, 2011 @ 10:02 pm

    They probably asked that question based on two people JR and BS.

  2. Lookie Here said

    November 29, 2011 @ 10:24 pm

    I doubt most of the eaters have a mental disorder, just a weird need to get attention.

  3. beautifulbrian said

    November 30, 2011 @ 8:42 am

    I made a promise that i wouldnt post on this site ever again but im always forced to defend myself because nobody else will cover my back which is one of the reasons why my site no longer exists . As far as hygiene i dont want to embarrass certain eaters in the sport but there were times i was forced to compete right next to individuals that not only had the worst breath but horrific body odor. 1029 might be one of them I dont know if was due to the fact that the individuals slept in the same shirt for a few days or accidently removed the shirt from the dirty wash and decided to wear it just for the hell of it. Regardless, it certainly did not help my numbers. I have all my teeth and i brush them three times a day , visit a dentist more than the average patient and bathe with pure soap and water. You wouldnt have the balls to say what you just said to my face 1029 wpuld you? “Well Brian i heard this one said this and this one said that” I dont want to hear it. You are a liar and troublemaker. Name names including YOURS or else its just fabricated hogwash as far as im concerned and i wont address the stupidity on your end. Dont come on here and make up some bullshit which you know is not true just to spread nasty runors which this site is notorious for. I also noticed that OJ Rifkin has no problem allowing the nasty remarks about me to pass through comment moderation with flying colors but he knows how to protect other comp eaters. How do i know that for a fact? I myself have posted one or two comments about “select” eaters under an assumed name which did not pass the moderation procedure. So its ok to slam Seiken under an assumed name while his pets are shielded from such. 1233 i am far from down and out. 606 you are the sad one not i. As ive stated time and time again youre entire life revolves around me or perceived comments on this site that might sound like me but you are dead wrong. Who the hell are you to pass judgement on me or anyone else for that matter?. You take great pleasure in using words such as “sad: “disruptive” “self destructive ” : “pitiful” and so forth in the hopes that you can convince a semi illiterate fanbase in believing what you say about me . None and i repeat NONE of what you say is anything remotely close to the truth.. Whether your initials are CLC, RC, AL TJ or whatever, you seem to be very preoccupied with Brian Seiken, Maybe a better word is fascinated. One of the main reasons i dropped my site was because i got tired of it. Tired of an organization that shows little if any appreciation towards what ive done and tired of anonymous ass Rifkin taking credit for all CE news and more importantly STEALING my links while attempting to BLACKBALL me from the sport. No one pressured me to drop the site No body held a gun to my head . I wasnt threatened by a team of legal experts to close the site down. .You know what ? I thought after a few days i would go bonkers caving into the pressure not being able to report the news the way i see it but its just the opposite . I have peace of mind and i enjoy it.Why should i take the heat speaking for others when they have a keypad and a PC . They can do the exact same thing i was doing. In the long run where did it get me? I came off looking like the jackass instead of the hero while others must have said “better him than me” Most of that negative energy surfaced right here from assholes like you on eatfeats.com. I decided to stay off this site so you guys could go about your biz but i see my name keeps popping up from time to time with nothing but lies and negative bullshit. If you crave my input i will go back to the way it was before and sabotage the thread topics with pure nonsense and stupidity. It appears that’s what you want because without my name being mentioned the comment board is a dead boring scenario . You make the choice

  4. Rhonda Evans said (Registered March 6, 2008)

    November 30, 2011 @ 9:58 am

    BB even with all that you have said, it remains obvious to me that your site and this one can (and should) easily coexist. You certainly have a right to your perceptions, but I feel that you’re way off base in your views, and people make their own realities with the way they choose to view things around them.

    Most everything I believe, with all the details, I’ve already said on this site, except this: I am absolutely certain that if I were the owner of Beautiful Brian dot com, given your Web site’s tenure, I could increase your site’s following 10- to 20-fold, just by changing the tone of what is posted. That’s it in a nutshell—-your tone, it’s negative and demeaning by default. … But BB.com doesn’t have to continue in that vein

    I feel very strongly that there’s a truly beautiful person within you BB. That’s because I’ve seen some very UNselfish, even altruistic things you’ve done over the years promoting other eaters in videos, storylines, (positive) inside info, etc., many of which included lesser-known eaters, who wouldn’t have even gotten a mention, were it not for bb.com.

    That is a very endearing, elusive quality that you have BB. Many do not have it. That’s the BB I know, and the BB I want to remember.

    BB, you don’t know me, but I wouldn’t say these things if I didn’t care for you. Your site has brought me much joy over the last half dozen years or so.

    Keep your own spin/angle, disagree (respectfully) when you need to, but keep things in an overall positive tone BB. That’s the the ticket. Beyond that, it’s not science, just listen to your heart.

  5. Hmm said (Registered November 12, 2009)

    November 30, 2011 @ 10:16 am

    And please, please, if you are going to write and call yourself a journalist, give us paragraphs. I cannot even read what you have written, whatever I may think of it. Have to save it for later………hope that it isn’t another rant blaming others. Body odor and bad breath for beginning, really…….you can do better.

  6. liar liar said

    November 30, 2011 @ 11:23 am

    BB site is not dead… he is just angling for attention… watch and see… he will be up and running, slamming people shortly.

  7. beautifulbrian said

    November 30, 2011 @ 11:32 am

    Rhonda Evans is the only true voice of reason in this room. Listen to her she speaks not only from the heart but from years of visiting and appreciating what i have tried to accomplish If i was falsely convicted and sent to prison , i could prob get that conviction over turned on appeal through the testimony of Rhoda Evans That appears to be the case right here in this room . Although the haters will vehemently disagree, i embarked on the BB.com as an unselfish venture to entertain the fans of the sport and not to entertain myself . Hmm the hygiene stuff was in response to a moron that decided to take the hate to another level . I think Rifkin might have removed the comment to make it seem as though i was ranting about something that never appeared . And Hmm you might be right on the paragraph angle but i have no problem understanding what i have written. Check out some of the other vocab geniuses that post on here and then get back to me with your critique of the English language

  8. Stallion Italian said (Registered August 27, 2010)

    November 30, 2011 @ 12:41 pm

    Sorry but what you have posted ends with a threat, at least that is the way it reads. You will sabotage if you do not get what? You call us idiots and same for eatfeats and OJ and worse, yet expect us to respect and support you. Please, many have supported you in the past and even the present, you seem to dwell so much on the negative that you cannot seem to find your way out of the gloom. Do you take no responsibility for your actions? If you do the same thing over and over and expect different results, you have learned nothing.

    You protest too much telling us how happy you are, relieved etc. If you were, you would not be posting here, though you write that you must to defend yourself and give us all of your reasons including accusations of stealing etc. So this goes around and around and around in circles and ends badly. Just my opinion but really, if you could just try to do more positive things, your reputation could go into a more positive realm. You really could be much happier and productive. This is not our choice. It is yours to make, ours to respond.

  9. beautifulbrian said

    November 30, 2011 @ 1:24 pm

    Stallion talk to gavonne he’s the expert in the threat dept. Second of all when dealing with anonymity,i don’t owe you or any of you’re anonymous cronies any explanation whatsoever. You always seem to justify you’re reason for remaining anonymous. I never had an issue with someone’s preference in remaining anonymous as long as they have something positive about me. It’s only when the hate sets in that I question their identity.

  10. the great gavonne said

    November 30, 2011 @ 1:40 pm

    Are we gonna start this crap again?I haven’t threatened anyone-if you’re afraid to show up at MLE events in NYC,that’s YOU.Don’t mention my name unless you want a shitstorm on your,lying,cowardly,perverted ass.

  11. It's a mental disorder said

    November 30, 2011 @ 1:52 pm

    from what I can tell by seeing where this thread is headed and by the participants.

  12. the great gavonne said

    November 30, 2011 @ 2:12 pm

    Those who make money off of CE are sane-those who follow this nonsense & who spend big bucks to travel far & wide to be in contests where they haven’t got a prayer of even breaking even are the crazy ones,but as I’ve said before,people with no talent will do anything to get on a stage for the attention they can’t get anywhere else.They’re not just mentally ill,they’re the most pathetic losers in existence.

  13. Hmm said (Registered November 12, 2009)

    November 30, 2011 @ 2:28 pm

    It’s Romper Room time again. Paragraphs are good, most people who wish to communicate use them.

  14. the great gavonne said

    November 30, 2011 @ 2:42 pm

    Hey Hmm,we’re not writing essays for the New Yorker here,this is a site geared to morons.Read the Wall Street Journal(I actually talked to a cute reporter from that paper at the Wild Turkey contest)if you want grammatically correct syntax.And by the way,anonymous Nov 28,there’s no such word as selicate.

  15. anonymous said

    November 30, 2011 @ 5:39 pm

    Can OJ make a separate Seiken – Gavonne room for these two? they can continue their rants, threats, garbage, crap, etc for as long as they want.

  16. why said

    November 30, 2011 @ 6:21 pm

    Oj why do allow gavonne to post? Do you enjoy this bullshit? Obviously you do

  17. Hmm said (Registered November 12, 2009)

    November 30, 2011 @ 7:08 pm

    I vote YES with 5:39 or just remove them from the conversations. I suggested this before, it was quiet and creative and positive for too short a time. Each can go and do their own thing elsewhere. Every place you can post has rules which are supposed to be followed as far as I know.

  18. beautifulbrian said

    November 30, 2011 @ 8:11 pm

    Fair warning don’t you ever mention my name in the same breath as that weird crazy fuck. I only posted because once again my name started popping up all over again. I have no intention of responding to that pitiful excuse on here or anywhere . And yeah I will continue disrupting your conversatiion if my name continues to be shithead on .so take that as a threat or whatever you want to call it

  19. foodisgood said

    December 3, 2011 @ 9:36 am

    I’ve seen a lot of stuff on this website about BB, positive, negative, whatever, and I just never really thought anything of it. But yesterday I looked at Adam Richman’s “farewell statement” on facebook, and underneath it were a bunch of comments saying stuff like “thanks for a great show Adam, we’ll miss you,” “NO we love MVF,” “Adam you’re great,” and at the very bottom Brian Seiken says “good riddance.” If that really WAS BB, why would you say that? People comment on this site about how you’re negative and demeaning, and that just confirmed it. To intentionally write something negative like that, right under a ton of perfectly nice, encouraging, and meaningful comments, where the person (Adam) will clearly see it, and where the person is most likely not happy about the subject, is just shitty. And why would you even think that? That show not only launched food challenges to a level they would never have been at, but also gave tons of great exposure to great cities and restaurants, and probably opened up a ton of people to the world of competitive eating (yes, I know the show wasn’t about professional competitive eating and contests, but it still had that effect). I know it was just one little facebook comment, but it was a shitty, and totally unnecessary thing to do. No wonder people have a problem with you.

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