Stupid Question du Jour???
by DemonCats on Sep 15, 2008 10:28 PM EDT
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PrintNext year, my VDS team will be Team Ocean Pacific and will mostly be made up of OP suspects.
Valverde, Contador, Basso!!!
Now the main question is:
Is HWMNBN worth only 1 point? Same for Basso?
Chris, pray tell!!!
I read somewhere that they believed that Armstrong would be riding the 2009 Tour under a Team LiveStrong- he has an announcement on the 25th!
Did I see the future?
So how does that work? Lance dials up Prudhomme and says "Yo Chuckie, I got the Motts!" "You got the Motts, Ahh, then welcome back!"
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10? 16?
what point total will make his selection interesting? My goal is to minimize the automatic yeses and noes.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 15, 2008 10:41 PM EDT reply actions
ok...
how about six for basso and six for strongarm?
You’re taking a chance with both of them.
What about Floyd?
Racing for Victory and Free Beer!
Floyd?
How many VDS races is he likely to get invited to?
Quite possibly
none.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 16, 2008 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Make LA a onepointer
Then everyone will take him and his results will have no effect on the outcome of the VDS. (A.K.A. The Kroon Factor)
Carlos Sastre - Tour de France winner - Born From Jets
Does that mean I have to take him? Ugh.
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
Ok, fuck it. I'm sticking with principles.
I will not have him on my team.
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
i'm with you...
my trainer is “making me” read “It’s Not About the Bike” so i’m calling this even in a relatively open-minded state…
You should read
Lance Armstrong’s War instead. A little more insight into ‘things’ than the above title.
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
That's the good thing about Armstrong's War
Less Lance, more other people (including David Walsh).
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
And a pretty good insight into the way LA's mind works
It has a pretty unbiased feel to it as well.
Carlos Sastre - Tour de France winner - Born From Jets
Yup
He’s very much the “if you’re not with me you’re against me.”
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
That was such a softball for you SJ
And you hit it out of the park ;-)
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
I'll vouch too. It was a good read and quick.
Do NOT let your trainer make you read his 2nd book. I did like not about the bike but the 2nd one left me wishing I had not read it.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
Read Toto today
You think Andy Chen reads the Café? In panel three LA says You think he’ll throw his head back and yell KAAAAHHHHNNN?
"The world is a mess and I just need to rule it." Dr. Horrible
That's a tough one
Andy could be like a lot of us here, already well versed in the William Shatner School of Excellent Over-Acting before they started following cycling. Or he could be blatantly ripping of us.
Either way I’m good with it :-)
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
Toto guys
have contacted me once or twice. Mutual admiration and whatnot. For the record, they rule.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 16, 2008 12:04 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm also not gonna take him..
Bad for the morale(ity) in my team if he’s in!
Some say the best things in life, are one the inside.
Lance, , Basso, Landis
Honestly making them one pointers is…. stupid. NOT that you folks are stupid! Hell- you are all above average and pretty. But I don’t see that we have to go strictly by what CQ says for the year before and in fact there were a couple exceptions to that rule this year. Also- not everyone took Kroon. Nor did anyone think that Kroon could have the impact of a 16 point rider. He was just a high value 2 pointer and many folks wouldn’t have taken him if he was say 8 points or 6. Even 4.
So there.
So Basso, Lance, and Floyd need to be priced where they are enticing to some.
Basso should have a high value- 16 or 18 I say. If he does what Leeky wants him to do he’s win the Giro at least and thus to price him lower would make him such an obvious bargain.
If Floyd signs with Health Net he could be a 1 pointer or a 2 since which VDS races might he even race in? nada.
Lance is the hard one as we don’t know his abilities now but he’s quite popular with the Drew wannabes. ;) If this were Vegas we’d start him off at 16 and see his value rise or fall and adjust accordingly. (That would be cool to do with all the riders, actually. Yeah I know we don’t have the time to do that.) So put Lance at 16 or 14 or even 12 as I think more folks here will be skeptical of him than Basso. Hell again- we dont; even know of Lance’s team yet. If he does this Team Livestrong thing he won’t be at many VDS races.
Just being clear
I’m having fun here. Please don’t take anything here personally. Watching stage 16 is driving me bats.
But, but, but...
… you said I was above average and pretty! I can’t take that personally?
Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.
Typo - what he meant was
you’re pretty average. Feel better now?
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
Phone's ringing Dude........
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
I'd say
stick Basso at 18, Lance at 16 and make people really roll the dice.
Jury is out on Floyd until we see who he goes to, but I’m leaning with Ursula in making him a low pointer since he most likely won’t race outside the states more than a few times, if at all.
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
Does anyone think Floyd will be allowed in an ASO-race ever?
Or Basso for that matter?
Carlos Sastre - Tour de France winner - Born From Jets
Basso
maybe. Floyd, not in a thousand million years.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 16, 2008 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions
The Tour of California?
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
Not a VDS race this year
A nasty little trap where you look at rider x and think “ooh, he’s doing well,” stick him on your team and slowly realise that his season peaked in February.
And never will be
It’s too early. Call it VDS spring training, which you can use to help formulate your final rosters before Het Volk.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 16, 2008 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions
ASO
Hm, are we calling the ToC an ASO race now? I’ll believe it when I can access it from Letour.fr
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 16, 2008 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Well
Petacchi just got forgiven, so anything’s possible.
All of them
belong on Team Angel Gomez Gomez Gomez. I’m through with having a good karma team.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 16, 2008 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Got one too many Gomez's in their chief
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
It's amazing what what grammatical typo can do to a sentence...
I suspect you meant to use “there”
Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.
Great God's above!
I’m turning into Gavia
;-)
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
Hehehehe
Luckily your writing more than makes up for it.
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum."
I know
what I’m doing.
"If writing too much about the Classics is wrong, I don't want to be right."
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 16, 2008 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions
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