This one has been sitting on my iPod for a while. Sooner or later I’ll lose it and the original analog media is suspect, so it’s compressed for YouTube in case my pod dies.
Jul 302006
Jul 302006
I just Googled the inhaler my doctor prescribed, and I’m on performance enhancing drugs! Sweet, as soon as I can breathe again, I’ll be smoking it up Deer Creek!
I’ve been sick for just over a week now. While most of my time has been spent sleeping, I do have periods that come close to resembling productivity. I didn’t notice the default “Ken Burns” effect in iMovie would move the picture out of it’s frame of reference. I will have to watch out for it next time.
This does display why I like the old iSight better than the built in one. Now only if it would record to an iPod…
Jul 272006
I can always look back on one incident where someone did the right thing. It cost him, but he did it anyway. With the pro peloton slowly circling the toilet bowl, I can always take heart in Jonathan Vaughter’s actions a few years ago.
Stung by a wasp, his face grotesquely swollen, he dropped out of the TDF to take a treatment of cortisone shots. He could have lied, taken them and continued, but he didn’t. I still think him having to drop out because of it was one of the most unjust things I’ve ever seen. But he did it the right way in the face of stupidity. If there was ever a guy who deserves acclaim for his non-action, I think Vaughters is the man.
It's the masseuse's fault.
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Jul 272006
I’m sitting here, sick and coughing and bored almost to tears, listening to the lovely sounds of Luca Mundaca and reading the latest doping results from France. Since Basso and Ullrich seem to have been to the Karl Rove School of Cycling, I’m wondering what Floyd will say if the ‘B’ sample comes back positive. I think I have a workable explanation for him… It’s the masseuse’s fault. Here’s how he should work the interview:
PB&J “There are some people that say you had a testosterone patch applied to your sack of potatos and that’s why you tested positive, you are stating that’s untrue?”
F.L. “Hell, that’s just ridiculous, can you imagine what that would feel like? I mean, ripping that patch off. Geez, makes me clinch up just thinking about it.”
PB&J “So what happened them?”
F.L. “I told the masseuse not to squeeze both of my apples, one is enough, because everyone knows that squeezing both can trigger a positive. Lance had it easy in that regard. She, the naughty masseuse in the little French maid outfit, she just got a little happy down there.”
PB&J “So, it was just a happy ending gone all wrong?”
F.L. “I’m embarassed by the whole thing, but yeah, she was a little too enthusiastic. What can I say? This is France after all!”
PB&J “Well, look on the bright side, you could have hit a bear!”
F.L. “Yeah, right!”
I think it plays better than the “vanishing twin” spin.
Jul 252006
Floyd had a great TDF, but this woman had an extraordinary ride through Left Hand Canyon during the Boulder Peak Triathon. She hit a bear and kept going. You may be tough Floyd, but I think she takes the grand prize.
Jul 202006
Appear to have been greatly exaggerated. As I write this before heading into the office, Floyd Landis has eight minutes and twenty three seconds on the yellow jersey group, virtual yellow! He attacked like a mad man on Col es Saisies and has been pouring it on! Here’s my favorite report from Eurosport so far:
LANDIS IS WITHIN SIGTH (sic) OF THE BREAK-AWAY!! And he has caught them!! Landis is passing them on the right, moving toward the front, sits in teh wheel of Padrnos for a second, then moves to the front of the group, as Skinkewitz can only stare at the American, completely befuddled. Must be thinking “what the hell are you doing up here?”
Hell yeah! There’s a long way to the finish and it’s another hot, hot day on the tour… Go Floyd go!
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Update – Landis is still in virtual yellow! CSC to the front trying to eat into the lead.
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Update two.
T-Mobile has joined the chase. Lead has been cut from nine to eight minutes. Bonk Vandelvelde, bonk!
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Update three
They are hitting the Joux-Plane. Floyd bet everything on a pair of threes, I really hope it’s enough!
This morning I thought everything was going to plan for Floyd. I don’t have OLN (thanks a bunch Comcast!) so I tune in to the live audio feed from Eurosport. When I left for the office, everything seemed to be ticking along just fine.
When I tuned in at the office and the Eurosport announcer with the thick, thick brogue and no inflection in his voice suddenly had an inflection, I knew it was bad. The first intelligible words I heard were “Landis has cracked!” Chin up Floyd, you took a great stab at getting the ultimate prize in cycling.
After all the press Phonak received for letting Periero go up the road, it looks like a couple of other teams should be regretting that decision a bit more. A lot more if he ends up in yellow come Paris. It drove me crazy that Davitamon-Lotto didn’t chase (so McEwen could stack me up some more points over at Performance’s Fantasy Tour, I’m down to 141st). Right now, I’m betting Cadel Evans wishes the same thing along with Denis Menchov and Rabobank.
A lot of teams seem to have forgotten that there is actually a race on this year with Discovery not relentlessly turning the screw on everyone in defense of their maniacal leader. There is no one man impressing his will on the peloton. Granted, it’s a whole lot of fun to watch it unfold, but I think the D.S.’s might want to review their strategies a bit before returning next year.
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PS – Gibo, how about taking a break to the line tomorrow, I’m in desperate need of some points!
Jul 152006
Sometimes I just wonder what goes on in peoples’ heads. Take a look at Trek’s new single-speed. A 26″ rear wheel and a 29″ front wheel — why carry one spare tube, when you can carry two? Not to mention that fork, is that a triple crown, on a single-speed? Leave the hare-brained ideas to the autism squad over at Cannondale, world renowned for solving non-existent problems. They, at least, can fall back on their cool schwag.
Jul 152006
Cyclingnews reports Massimo Martelli (Ivan Basso’s attorney) as saying: “Birillo is supposed to be the name of Basso’s dog. But yesterday, I heard his daughter Domitilla call the dog ‘Tarello’ – I don’t think that at two years of age, a child could be wrong about the name of its dog.” This in an attempt to spin the really damaging looking evidence arrayed against him in the Operation Puerto case.
I don’t know whether to wretch right now, or wait for him to come up with something else. My friend’s two year old calls her Grandmother “Gogo.” Since, by Marteli’s logic, she can’t be wrong, I’ve been using the wrong word to describe my mother’s mother for a long, long, time. Thanks for pointing that out Martelli.
A place in the peloton isn’t a right, it’s a priviledge. You chose the life, take the DNA test and fire that supposed lawyer of yours. The attempts at draping the events in legalities and semantics are poison to the sport you supposedly love. Do the right thing.