Welcome to the Dumbass Club Marta

The list is growing...

Any time your excuse includes the line I'm disgusted with my trusted chemist for preparing a mix of herbs for me, you have to KNOW that things aren't going to go well for you.

Here's the plan, only use products that YOU KNOW ARE SAFE, NOT ON ANY BANNED LIST and DO NOT NEED TO BE "MIXED" BY YOUR TRUSTED CHEMIST.

I mean, come on, naivety, arrogance or a serious case of the "fuck its" aren't good excuses for testing positive.

Le Tour a ete "Sastre-ated"

Carlos Sastre and his CSC teammates sack tapped the Tour bunch and came away with their greatest victory yet. After the craptacular 2006 Tour and Vino/Astana skidmarked 07 race, the 2008 Tour was a pretty good one. Sure the dumbass dopers tried to eff things up (Good going Ricco et. al.), but somehow this year felt different. Whereas the 06-07 Tours had clouds over them, the 2008 Tour seemed more resilient. The shit hit the fan, but rinsed right off.

Now, with his contract up this year, does Sastre "repay" Bjarne and the Team by staying with them to groom the Schleck's for the future or does he do the "profitable" thing, realizing he's at the end of his career, and go for the big money from other teams? I'll go on a limb and say he stays at Saxo Bank/Riis Cycling.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed we don't have any late test results that come in and screw up an otherwise fine finish for cyclings' biggest race.

Fully Alive

"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully,"- Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch passed away today, but his life and how he lived serves to remind us all to embrace the opportunities we are given and to live the lives we want.

"pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from."

Amen brother.

Que CERA, CERA and more Tour tidbits

(The Tour Caravan 2009)

With Ricco and Piepoli getting caught for using the 3rd generation red blood cell booster, CERA, I started wondering to what extent teams and riders are going to go to in order to cheat. I'm betting we'll see the "Cheech and Chong Method" of dope delivery.

There's got to be some dumbass out there right now saying, "no, really, they'll never figure it out." o_O

Officials already know to search IN the cars of the riders' friends and family, just ask Papa Schleck. But, come on, what if the dope WAS the car? Uh huh, I'm telling you...

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Contador would have won.

After watching the way the group rode through the mountains, I'm pretty sure Contador would have kicked ass in this years race. For all the attacking, team pulling and marking going on, what was missing was the EXPLOSIVE attacks of Contador.

I think his style would have neutralized the Schlecks (Andy is CRAZY good btw) and put everyone else in trouble. With race fit Contador, Kloden and Leipheimer, Astana would have rolled em.

But, we'll never know...

*** SPOILERS BELOW. DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE TOUR TODAY***







Cunego, damn.

I'm a HUGE DC fan and was disappointed that he left his "A Game" somewhere else. But I was especially bummed to hear of his crash and withdrawal from the Tour today. He couldn't even get a break. He's still young enough to go for some Grand Tour glory, but he may soon have ask himself if he's more of Classics rider and smaller stage races.

Hang in there DC!

Dope Man Got 'Em...

"Ride, ride, ride as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the... OH SHIT!"

Rici, welcome to the "Dumbass Club".

Amazing how some of these guys still think they can get away with doping. Oy.

Le Tour

I'm feeling it, yo.
(even tho my boy Cunego is struggling.)

The boys over at L'Equipe had a little survey on Evans chances.

LA QUESTION DU JOUR
L' Australien Cadel Evans remportera-t-il cette année le Tour de France?
Oui 35%
Non 60%
Nsp 5%

Hmm.

So if not Evans, I wonder who they pick? I'm throwing my support behind Christian Vandevelde (with Cunego making a wildly unexpected charge for the podium!! -I can dream, right?-).

Menchov is kinda "lurky, lurky" back in 5th. He's going to make things interesting.

Coolness

Mad props to Horner for this one.

Speaking of coolness, love the slightly cooler weather in the Yay Area. I thought I was going to melt for sure last week.

And...Ric the Dic is killing fools on the Tour Cols. Even with the Triki "Dumbass" Beltran story making headlines, this Tour is shaping up to be a good one. Can't wait to see what happens on Hautacam!

F@#$ Man is my hero!

Lovin' the fact that JV kept it real.
Tomorrow, I want to see this interview;

Robbie Ventura: "Johnathan, your team is kicking ass in the Tour. How do you plan to regulate these bitches today?"

Johnathan Vaughters: "Well, you see, we gotta show these muthafukkahs we aint playin', yo. I mean, shiiiit, Garmin-Chipotle aint bowin' down to no man, F@#$ Shumacher! Yo, let me get a shout out to all my boys reppin' the 303! DZ, we got you son!"

RV: "Yo man, fo sho!"

JV: "Ayte fool, I gotsta bounce. Peace."

RV: "This is Robbie Ventura up in this bitch. I'm out."

Phil Liggett: "Ho-Lee Shit. What the hell just happened there?"

Great Racing Weekend + a day

What a great weekend of racing!!! Here's the recap;

Cheered my ass of at the crits in Davis and Vacaville as my friends ripped the courses.

Team Fremont got their first win of the year when strongman Bill Brier busted out a sprint win against his breakaway homies in Leesville.

Watched as cycling badass Bernard "Bitch Slap" Hinault showed why he is STILL the patron of the sport.

Good times!!