here.

1) Your upset about a contest that was not run by the club, not managed by the club, not authorized or sanctioned by the club. Please read this point carefully.

2) I dont care if Andy is a Life Member, a Regular Member or a non member. It makes no difference to me as this whole issue has nothing to do with the club and it all occured on a non club public forum.

3) The analogy is a perfect one. You profess that you decided to quit the over something that you believe they did to you yet. I simply pointed out that if you feel Andy has wronged you in any way and you dont want to be part of any organization he is a member of that you certainly cant want to remain an American as Andy is one too.

I am sorry you feel that the has somehow wronged you.

You ask me if I feel it is OK you were called a deadbeat, I dont believe anyone should call people names.

Here is something that may help you with your problem,

This is Ralphs post announcing the contest:
http://www.thechipboard.com/archives/archives.pl/bid/399/md/read/id/1252580/sbj/indy-500-pool-ncr/

This is the original post where you requested to join the contest:
http://www.thechipboard.com/archives/archives.pl/bid/399/md/read/id/1252621/sbj/im-in/
Its important to note that you didnt ask for more information, or you may be interested, your comment was "IM IN"

Here is Ralphs post announcing the draws for who has what driver:
http://www.thechipboard.com/archives/archives.pl/bid/399/md/read/id/1253898/sbj/indy-500-draw/
Please notice your name on the list

Here is Ralphs post announcing the winner and who to mail the chips to:
http://www.thechipboard.com/archives/archives.pl/bid/399/md/read/id/1254413/sbj/the-indy-500-winner-is/

here is the post that Ralph made 2 months after the contest informing you that you haven't paid yet even though you had promised twice to mail the chip.
http://www.thechipboard.com/archives/archives.pl/bid/399/md/read/id/1262833/sbj/will-martell/

According to Andy's post today after 2 years you STILL haven't made good?

I see no post where the is mentioned and not one of them is on a board.
The ONLY post concerning the is the one where you blame the for what happened.

That is why I asked you to leave the out of it.
Doug