I bowed out gracefully

This is graceful? What are you still doing here? Graceful is when, after you leave, you're gone.



anything in my statement represnt anything that can be construed as crying/whinning?

You bowed out on 9/2 (crappy, mean-spirited timing, by the way; inconvenient for everyone) with this post:

http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=21256127

Now it's TWO MONTHS later, and it's still important enough to you to come back and take potshots. Since then:

http://boards.fool.com/Messages.asp?bid=116855&mid=21258066&sort=username

Over 20 posts.



The bottom line is to be the CHAMP, you have to BEAT the champ.

ONLY if the champ shows UP. When the champ takes his bat and ball and goes home, he ceases to be the champ. Then he's just another quitter.