"I was told right at that moment, there’s no way they’re letting Gabriel win this one because it’s just not good for business.”
Do you believe in the maxim, you make your own luck?
I sure do, anything I’ve gotten in this life, good, bad, indifferent, has been via my own behaviours.
Barton Lynch, whom you know well by now, world champ, one of the better voices in the WSL commentary team although that ship appears to’ve sailed, is also a believer and says Gabriel Medina lost his 2019 title showdown at Pipe with Italo ‘cause the universe looked askance at his semi-final interference with Caio Ibelli.
In his latest Stoked Bloke Wrap show, Lynch is riffing on the Filipe v Italo final at Lowers, when he takes the listener back three years to 2019, to the final of the Pipe Masters ‘tween Medina and Ferreira. Whomever wins gets the crown.
“Let me go back to this one. Remember Pipeline, Gabriel Medina, Italo Ferreira final? Before that, Gabriel Medina had got his controversial interference with Caio… blocked him and didn’t let him get the score and won. In my mind, I was commentating that event, and commentated that moment, in my mind, I went, there’s no way they’re letting Gabriel win this thing. Because the world was embarrassed. The world so disliked what Gabriel did in that moment that to have him as champion at the end of the thing was going to be a blight on the sport. A blight on the WSL.
“And, Italo went the first righthander in the final. I was, like, six, five five, I didn’t think it was very good, and it came out as an eight. Oh there you go! All of a sudden, they, the…the…the… I was told right at that moment, there’s no way they’re letting Gabriel win this one because it’s just not good for business.”
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“So you can script this,” says Lynch’s co-host Peter King.
Lynch quickly hoses down the suggestion the fix was in.
“Well, I don’t know if you can script this but you can manage the energy of the universe to go your way and that’s part of the job of a professional surfer, to manage their image, and that creates this opportunity for success… I’m not saying corrupt things happen… someone runs to the judges, ‘You cannot win!’ It’s just that you’re a human influenced by the energetic resonance of your world and in that energy, there was no way Gab was winning that final.”
Lynch says bad energy dogged Medina even through his title-winning years and that he was so good, so far ahead of the pack, he won in spite of himself.
“He did it to himself! His public relations exercises through his greatest years were terrible! I’ve never seen Medina get given…one…point.”
Thoughts?
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Gabby won his first title when pip interfered with Dusty on Gabby’s behalf at pipe. They were in seperate heats, gabs needed the heatbto clinch the championship and dusty took off on the wave he needed for the score, then pip used his prio to stuff Dusty and give gabby the win
Barton starting to look like Dick Van Dyke
I want to believe
I think BL’s been hitting the mushies – seeing things that just ain’t there!
it’s a split position decision…
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Barton just waffles so hard he waffles himself into places he probably didn’t intend to go before he started waffling. Thank fuck he’s not on the commentary team anymore, now if they’d just get rid of Turpel & Cote.
Agreed, says it’s the universe, energy, etc…is an euphemism … a better word for that is Colonialism.
If it was that simple, how did karma-kelly bag 11x titles?
And if it was that karmic, zen-boys Robbo and Colapinto would be all over this shit.
Derek, Of all the crappy surf podcasts out there, you choose this one to listen to regularly? You really are a masochist
“I hate it when the south bay is 6-8 and epic all the time, and Surfline brings in all the surfers in the world” -No one ever
He’s not wrong. Though Gabe can blame Charlie for that one.
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. It’s (what) another 4 months until Pipe.
Wow….BL harnessing the super natural with his energetic resonance , tapping into the “energy of the Universe”, is this a spiritual development BL will include in his coaching now??
Medina’s a great bloke, but Charlie was out there….who really cares about a heat from a few years ago…and to imply a “fix”….with ” it’s not good for business “??????
So you can’t script this? Or you can script this? Fark… so damn confusing! That Gerry Lopez call-in was legit right? So many emotions! I don’t know who to trust anymore! Joe-sus?
Pete King went straight to it. So it was scripted? Lynch’s beard went whiter than ever and then backed down from concurring, going on to spew out a load of hocus pocus about garnering the energy of the Universe to get Medina turned over in the final. Not what he said at the time though on the Instagram wsl posting.
Mind you, maybe his judgement call was right in his alter ego as the stoked bloke, inferring karma as the likely outcome. Naturally he doesn’t want to completely write off the chances of future work with the WSL. He’s not totally barmy just yet.
It was SO F-UXing ObVi Annoying the PRO Surf League was Ha-8T-ING on Gabriel Medin”A” I wanted to BARF on the Ghost 👻 judges & Boring A$$ production quality … pathetic honestly lol JOKE on PRO SURFING story not Supporting ITS TRUE STAR & Evolutionary. 3X World Champion & always a Sonhadora Vibes with me . Aloha . Looking forward to December on pipeline … Brazilians flying IN … sending North Shore Bliss 💋🧲🍯💚🐝🥂
fuck me, trying to read that I felt like I was a fridge and 58 cunts were throwing metal magnets at me from 3 feet.
I don’t even understand a word of it??
This is very good ⬆️ I appreciate the time you put into this.
I can’t tell if this is a troll or an actual brazzo. Both options are believable.
Kmon man. We Brazzos are bad but not THAT bad.
Or predators.
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Absolutely my thoughts at the time.
Though potentially clouded by my unerring love for Gabby and the massive wad of cash I had riding on him.
a hand goes up from the back of the class…Yes James? “Mr. Currie, will you teach us how to gamble?”
No-one needs that lesson.
of many vices, gambling has never been one of ’em..makes me ill to think about it. Probs it was playing one-on-one blackjack with a long time buddy in a van down by the river (actually parked at a baja surf spot where I racked up $250 plus in paper bets.) saw the guy some 30 years later and first thing out of my mouth (feeling guilty, I guess): “Don’t I owe you some money, John?” Naw, Dane…I thought I owed you money!”
also, cremed corn and cooked spinach…might have blown ’em out of my mouth & nose as a kid. but the kicker was chewing tobacco: “Dane, why don’t you try Redman…just take a blob into the cheek, get a spit going…then swallow it!” definitely blew bits.
I blame that loudmouth cun7 Charlie. Gabe’s a loveable flawed Everyman now.
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Gabby clearly needed some help keeping track of his cuntishness schedule.
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