That’s the theme today. The initial inspiration would have to be this award—I’d make a joke about BikeBiz being so technically backward they’re still browsing with Kermit and thus blind to the site’s design—but even then, the award makes no sense.
Then there’s this, which I found in muddylegs‘ twitter:
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And finally, some clown wrote into Joe Parkin asking why Columbia HTC is “helpless” in the classics. I’m just gonna overlook the fact that the very question is baseless, and call this an unfortunate side effect of well-meaning pros who use the word “cycling” to refer only to flat Grand Tour stages, and mislead fans that every race is nothing but a marionette fight between team directors. Kudos for Joe to giving a good answer.
Those guys were funny. We see a lot of that kind of stuff out here, especially during Halloween. Take this unicorn setup, for example:
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I award you +1 Charisma for mentioning KERMIT.
Wow, KERMIT – talk about traveling the wayback machine.
re: Kermit, I used to be cutting edge. Now I get paid to use a CMS that only runs in IE6/IE7.
I’m not getting your connection between the guy writing in to Joe Hairdo to Michael Barry-
AND are you going to sit there and say that race radios (team directors) DON’T largely control the races with their radios?
The connection is that for someone to ask such a ridiculous question, they must have (1) never watched a classic and/or (2) been utterly convinced by Hard Chargers that every single action on the road is premeditated and ordered from the team car.
I’m not saying directeurs sportif don’t try to control the races via radio—that is, after all, their job. But I am saying that it’s virtually impossible to dictate the outcome of a bike race from the team car—and that goes double in the classics.