Art O’Connor

I am now in my second day of boycotting the Tour de France.  Yesterday I went up to Solitude to see “The Battle of the Has Beens” or Slohran vs. Sly what ever you want to call it.  In typicall Ohran ADD fashion he tells me the race starts at 11:30.  I show up at 11:10 thinking I will have enough time to get his bottles and get set in the feed zone.  Nope.  the race started at 11:00, so I head up to see the battle.  Sly comes by and no Ohran in site.  Oh well it is a pretty technical course so I figure Ohran’s already limited skills are rusty at best and he has crashed and or flatted.  Sly comes by again no Ohran.  One more time and still no Ohran.  So I get bored and go home.  No Tour replacement here. 

The Peeper has been telling me for about a year now how cool NASCAR is so I figure I would give that a try.  I tune into the Pepsi 400 last night ready to get my racing fix.  Good God are you kidding me?  After about 10 minutes of watching hillbilly’s turn left I was ready to drink bleach. 

I am not sure how much longer I can hold out.  Is this all there is?  Anyone have any suggestions?  Despite not watching OLN or going to any cycling sites I have heard that George is in yellow.  I hope his Trek does not fall apart again.

Go Z

OK I am still pissed off about “The Tour”,  first off how arrogant is it to call it “The Tour” there are other tours.  It is like here in Utah where everyone calls it “The Church” when referring to the Mormon’s Sunday social club.  “The Tour” has arguably ruined the sport.  Think about it.  Some of the best riders of our generation have dropped all other races to be ready for “The Tour”.  Even Hincapie has now sold his soul to “The Tour”.  The Olympics, Worlds, The Classics all have taken a back seat to a 3 ring side show in a stupid little country that no one cares about.  How cool would it have been to see Lance and Jan going toe to toe at Flanders?  I mean really what have the French contributed to the world?  Some stupid wines that only boring blow hards at wine tastings care about, some stinky cheeses, and Gerard DePardeau (I hope I did spell his name wrong).  Did you know the entire French wine industry was saved by 2 dudes from Missouri in the 19th century? (I am kind of sad that I know that)   Can anyone name a single good band to ever come from France?  This is a country where Richard Virenque is considered a hero.  You all remember Dicky V right?  He got busted along with the rest of his doped up Festina team back in the 90’s, lied like a coward (I know calling a Frenchie a coward is like calling the sky blue), then finally admitted that he had lied and cheated through his entire professional career.  Then comes back and wins a few more Polka Dot jerseys as a “clean” rider.  (when Zulle came back clean he sucked) Yeah, real class act.  Now it looks like even Jalabert (arguably the only Frenchman that is not a complete jack ass) was a lying cheating doper.

I hope Z crushes them all.