The Con Man has had it up to here with anything and everything about the X Games except our homegrown star Gretchen Bleiler. “Aspen is so cool and hip that it would be outrageously uncool and bodaciously unhip to admit that I really hate the X Games,” he blogs. “To say so makes me feel like a traitor to my home base—and worse—because I find myself (again) in the position of insisting Aspen is not nearly so cool as it thinks…. The only thing worse than driving by the X Games is actually going to them. Because they are made-for-TV, the experience of attending the Games will make you hate them forever. You stand around freezing, with sight lines that render you all but blind in those moments when you are not besieged by sponsors giving away worthless crap.”