Transfers
Friday, July 13th, 2007I just heard that George Hincapie is riding for T Mobile next year and Dave Zabriskie, Christian Vande Velde and David Millar are riding for Slipstream.
Did I miss the news? Did anyone else hear this?
Archive for July 13th, 2007
Tracky Nighty wrapy upy
Friday, July 13th, 2007
Who’s the man!? That’s right bitches! Who’s the man!?
Not me. Apparently Ben Dubay is the man. He gets decked in the Miss & Ownt (I have to credit SanDiego81 for coming up with that one), gets up, dusts himself off and proceeds to lap the field more than once along with Colivita pro Adam Bergman in the Points Race. Incredible performance. Not to mention that both the crash and the Points Race took place after Dubay took part in a 16 lap pursuit along with Skibby, The Dad in Black, and Der Kruser versus the SuperTeam of Bergman, Timmer, Flooder and The National Champion. Everyone expected that the SuperTeam would lap their competition but the smooth squad of Kruser/Dubay/Skibby/TDIB made a fantastic ride to keep the SuperTeam from even catching them before the end of the event. Impressive stuff for certain.
So who’s the man? Not me.
Although, in fairness, I have to give myself a few snaps for executing my Miss & Ownt super secret strategy to absolute perfection. The dark spot of the race was the aforementioned crash that took out Ben Dubay and The Man in Black. I actually pulled off the track to make sure they were OK when the officials neutralized the race. Official Bruce told me to get back on the track if I wanted to finish so I did but was a bit disturbed not to know if everyone was all right. The Donimator, Flooder and The National Champion were left on the boards when I joined back in for the restart and I was able to hold off both Donimator and Flooder to go head to head with The National Champion. It was him and me, me and him. I dogged him for the last two laps hoping that I would be able to get the jump on him. I knew that if he jumped me I would probably not be able to come around him. With 200 meters to go TNC looked back to check my progress and when he looked back forward with 190m to go I jumped for all I was worth and was able to hold him off for the W. I was pretty stoked.
I don’t have much to say about the first race of the night. It was a Snowball race and I scored 0 points.
I don’t have much more to say about the Points Race. I scored some points and screwed up my final sprint which I was not too happy about. Bergman punked me on a sprint which cost me a couple of points that would have made the difference in the final so I shredded my membership card to the Adam Bergman fan club last night when I got home.
Ped joined me for the racing and I was really happy to have his help in the Points Race. When we are able to execute our lead out tactic it is a beautiful thing to behold. People were crying in the stands because it was so lovely. The only point of conflict with Ped was when he was asking why I have been so hard on Tom Boonen the last few days and I told him it was because BooBoo was not living up to his potential and I won’t tolerate it.
Tuffy was at the track but he did not race. He just walked around and talked shit to everyone. Kind of like Ray but not nearly as polished. Maybe he could be Ray’s apprentice.
(dis) rode well last night, I think he took a lap in the Point Race.
That’s all I can think of right now.
Questions for conservatives
Friday, July 13th, 2007Would you support a presidential candidate who is divorced, has estranged relations with his children, never sees his grandchildren, rarely attends church, strongly opposes a law to ban gays from teaching school, and as governor signed the nation’s most liberal abortion law?
Would you support him if you knew his name was Ronald Reagan?
The Reagan myth, and I do mean myth, has been so conflated by conservatives that they don’t even remember who Saint Ronnie really was.
Tour de France stage 5 wrap up
Friday, July 13th, 2007Astana had a bad day with both Kloden and Vino crashing. Vino lost a minute to the other GC contenders, Kloden could be out of the Tour if his now fractured tail bone is too painful to ride on.
Vino almost got his ass DQ’d when he was paced for a few minutes by his team car. I’m sure the officials read the Astana driver the riot act about his actions.
Green jersey contenders Freire, Bennati and Zabel were able to climb well enough to score points in the final sprint. BooBoo, not so much.
Some have decried my lambasting of Tom Boonen’s performance so far in the Tour this year. My response: What performance? A couple of days in the green jersey? No stage wins? I would contend that his Tour to date is far worse than last year when he at least wore the yellow jersey for a few days in the first week. Only Gert Steegmans has saved the Quick-Step team from being nearly a complete non-factor.
