Weekend VDS Smack Talk
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 10, 2011 2:54 PM EDT
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PrintCycling doesn't get much busier than it is at the moment, and while Cyclemania continues to put the wood to the field in the Big Game, there is still plenty of intrigue in the battle for the other two podium spots, with ten teams separated by 800 points. See the left sidebar for the full list. Sitting in third, Burgi's Glorious Bastards are about to gorge themselves on JJ Cobo's pointalanche tomorrow. So the nearby teams had better brace themselves and kick some Montreal ass.
In the Ed's League, the big news is the (almost) 200-point lead I have opened up on Ruthann for the final Top Ten spot, thanks to Denis Galimzyanov, selected two rounds after Stijn Devolder, one of two donuts on my roster. Oh, and Jens has an 8-point lead over Monty, though that won't last unless Fabian Cancellara doubles up in Copenhagen on Monty's ace, Gilbert. Enjoy that jersey while it still fits, Jens.
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I had a three point buffer over Holmovka yesterday morning
and I see he has now booted me about 15 places down the list. At least I am still in front of majope. My top two hundred dreams are fading as Gilbert just. keeps. on. winning.
How many points for the Worlds? Maybe Taylor Phinney will win the ITT, BMC the TTT and Allan Davis win the RR, then I should be OK.
mhm
Maybe Taylor Phinney will win the ITT, BMC the TTT and Allan Davis win the RR, then I should be OK.
Vuelta bump! I love Spanish racing!
The heady air (at least temporarily) of 158th. I’m holding my helmet in disbelief at my neo-pro year. Yeah OK it’s a little OTT, but I am pretty pleased. And Mollema got the points jersey- my cup overflows.
Since Davis didn't even make the Australian team
my cunning catch-up plan is already toast. Oh well, Rock Wallaby will back Sagan for the Worlds then.
For shame ;)
"How strange it was to see men doing something beautiful. Something pointless and elegant." Tim Winton, 'Breath'
still sitting in Mediocrity poop
though I should get a boost from Moncoutie and Poels
Sminer: I blame KARMA for everything.
Jens: I've heard it's a bitch
Water Girl: I heard it ran over your dogma
Oh, you're laughing now Chris
but you won’t be when Thomas Löfkvist opens up a can of whoop-ass in the italian fall races.
I'm not convinced Thomas
can wield that can-opener. In other news, I swept the Paris-Brussels podium.
by swells on Sep 10, 2011 4:59 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
All I am going to say is thanks Bobo, Rigo and CAS for
not letting me go in the 400 numbers..!
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have 4 donuts left...!
Anyone wants one for tea time?
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Oh yea.....with 5 Donuts, I finally made it into the upper 300's
…and, Wiggo & Fuglsang could dip me under 350,
want more…….6 riders costing 10+ have out scored,….. Mr. Yellow Jersey himself,
that’s right 6 high priced riders have outscored Cadel Evans by…. 121 points…….. so take that to the VDS bank!!
and Hutarovich ani’t done yet…oh no…he ain’t.
(silently smiling while on a rant)
Soli Deo Gloria
JRod survived!
Though I see he and Mollema are tired. WTF? When do I get my points? If this holds, as it should with tomorrow’s stage being a parade. Well, that’ll give ‘Wheelies’ the KOM, the Green and 5th place on the GC. More than enough to hold off Fish Boy in the local VDS pool AND move into 3rd in the Ed Liga. Not the Vuelta I’d hoped for (Anton) but good none the less.
"If Peyton Manning crashed onto a barbed-wire fence and returned to a game, you’d never hear the end of it for the rest of your life." Jason Gay
The Gilbertmonster is way out of control.
So I’m sitting in 50th place. Not bad for someone who doesn’t have Phil Gil. 31 of the people in front of me have him. The next four after me have him also, and then about half of the next 30 or 40.
Menchov and Nibali are going to pick up 550 for me tomorrow but Phil will probably erase this in his next two races. It just gets silly.
Mad respect that Cyclemania is probably going to win this thing without Phil. And with all his GC Vuelta guys failing.
Definitely silly.
Before this season I thought it was very unlikely anyone could score 3000 points. Now PhilGil pretty much has 4000 in the bag, and 5000 does not seem impossible.
Start fast, finish fast, and hope you're fast enough-- Cadel Evans
Press Release (in the spirit of our friends at RadioSchleck)
Team Ruby & the Daimler (466th place) wishes to announce that we will be merging with Team Over the Hills of the Chankly Bore (94th place) for the remainder of the 2011 season.
As was stated in our household in January , 2011, this would be our apprentice year in VDS. We thus created two teams, which are now being combined and will be rebranded as Team Over the Hills of the Chevy Volt
Team owner BDR issued the following statement: "We intend to improve our results. In modern VDS-ing you cannot move forward without going back and reengineering your team once you know which riders have been successful. "
By combining the most successful riders of our two teams— Philippe Gilbert, Thomas Voeckler and Michele Scarponi will join with their esteemed colleagues Peter Sagan, Love Boat and Woet Poels—to create a powerhouse score of 13,759 points. The following riders have not been offered contracts on the new team and will never be mentioned again: Tom Boonen, Heinrich Haussler, Peter Velits, Nicholas Roche and Ryder H.
Imagining ourselves in 2nd place is a further milestone in the development of this exciting young project and a major strategic move for all partners involved.
The team will continue to call an XCEL spreadsheet home.
And in keeping with the spirit of RadioSchleck, Team Over the Hills of the Chanky Bore will soon issue its own press release contradicting everything said here.
Will there be scarves for the new team?
by KnittingGene on Sep 10, 2011 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions
You missed the deadline for registering a new team
This will cause inconvenience at VDS headquarters and a lot of bottles of whisky are going to be required to sort it out.
Contradictory Press Release
As announced earlier today, Team Over the Hills of the Chankly Bore (94th place) is proud to announce that it will be rescuing Team Ruby & the Daimler’s sorry ass from 466th place by immediately combining the highest scoring riders from the two teams.
All sporting operations will be managed by Team owner Jumblygirl from both home and her office. "I’m confident that Team Over the Hills of the Chevy Volt will dominate VDS-ing for weeks to come," Jumblygirl said. "All contracts with existing Chankly Bore and Ruby & the Daimler riders will be respected unless they are not."
What, giving up on Roche so soon?
Didn’t you see the interview in CN where he said that he was a tad disappointed with his Vuelta (by some unfortunate accident, there were a bunch of riders in the race better than him) but he felt his form was really coming along and he hoped to do well in the fall classics? Hey, those 10-point scoring sprees can really add up, you know.
Start fast, finish fast, and hope you're fast enough-- Cadel Evans
All doughnuts gone and within the top hunded.
The Vuelta GC bump shouldn’t be fatal. If I can finish around here I’ll be very happy, thank you.
Tour of Beijing
Is it going to be worth any points (if it happens)? It seems like it should be Cat. 3 since it is a WorldTour stage race.
and
if it happens before Lombardia.
Any dumb f#*k who looked at Garmin’s roster could figure that out, it wasn’t exactly rocket-science. Hell, it wasn’t even lutefisk-science.
by Chris Fontecchio on Sep 12, 2011 1:39 AM EDT up reply actions
lol ok, but...
I think it suffers from the calendar … it is pretty noble with more than 90 editions.
...and
In your opinion, are both young Canadian races more important than Paris-Bruxelles? (cat 4 vs cat 6)
Yep
Quebec was awesome this year. Montreal a little less, but still pretty ace. Of course, it helps to be ProTour…
I am ready to hug the world - Tony Martin.
ok, I respect your opinion but:
both canadians are shorter than P-B (206 & 201 vs 219) and the small cotes on P-B shake the race. I don’t like circuit: boring!
ps: Montreal and Canada in general are beautiful places, of course.
When it's small it needs to make up for that somehow
or it ends up coming short.
Are we still talking about bike races?
I am ready to hug the world - Tony Martin.
just outside the top 200
the good picks? evans, voeckler, chavanel, brutt, dowsett
the below par? evans, cance
the disappointments? basso, horner, anton
the atrocious? haussler, roche, devolder
200somethingth place! I read it and weep!
Team shitheads (not the real name) are nothing to write home about – so I didn’t. Whereas last year (I peaked at 6th place – Thanks Cance) and finished 52nd, I was bragging to everyone about my Fantasy Cycling Team (no one got the whole Virtual DS concept, so I relented and called it a Fantasy Cycling league - everyone understood then).
Next year, I have no clue which way I will go with my picks, but i seriously need to lay off the Roche. I’d like to blame it all on him, but the reality is that, while solid, I put my faith back in Cance again and he had a good year, but not great. With the top cost guys, you need great. Oh well…
oh, and one more thing: Basso! What was I thinking!
He won GP di Lugano early on and I was all, “Oh my God, he’s gonna go nuts this year!” Then, he gets 4th at Tirreno-Adriatico and 8th at the Tour. Seriously? That is all you got? UGH!
by JustJoshinYa on Sep 11, 2011 10:54 AM EDT up reply actions
I also have Roche, Basso, Haussler and Davis
Would have been top 50 otherwise….I’m sure of it. My power meter readings were extraterrestrial.
Into 3rd on the Ed Liga VDS
I said I could do it!
"If Peyton Manning crashed onto a barbed-wire fence and returned to a game, you’d never hear the end of it for the rest of your life." Jason Gay
And after weeks of nipping at ursula's heels, I've finally passed him!
I owe it all to Ciolek (words I never dreamed I would find myself typing).
It would be better to get the important stuff out of the way first. Such as: will your riders still wear scarves next year?--Gerard Vroomen
Ciolek saved you. Now that IS amazing.
"If Peyton Manning crashed onto a barbed-wire fence and returned to a game, you’d never hear the end of it for the rest of your life." Jason Gay
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