Hell

Bob Schwartz said:

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let's face it: outside quickstep team i only see 3 riders able to play
an important role in the Hell: Wesemann, Van Peteghem and Hincapie.

1. Museeuw
2. Boonen (who grants victory to Museeuw)
3. Hincapie (at 2:30)
4. Van Peteghem
5. Knaven
6. Wesemann
7. VDB

grts
ward

1 boonen 2 hincapie 3 ogrady

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Bob Schwartz said:

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Ludo rides them all off his 39 year old ass.

Wayne

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1 boonen 2 hincapie 3 ogrady

hincapie outside the top 5

dave

1. Pieri
2. Mattan
3. Museeuw

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1. Boonen
2. Van Petegem
3. Wesemann
4. VDB
5. Museeuw (unless Roger De Vlamnick decides to return making Johan come
6th)

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1. Pieri
2. Mattan
3. Museeuw

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Ward said:

7. VDB

I thought surely you hadn't checked out the start lists, but he is
indeed short listed! We'll see, I still think he may opt out if he can.

Bob Schwartz said:

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1. Wesemann
2. Museeuw
3. Boonen
4. Hincapie
5. Dierckssens (sorry, if spelled wrong)

This time the early break never gets caught...

1. Wilfred Creskens (Quick-Step)
2. Frank Hoj (CSC)
3. Fabian Cancellera (Fassa Bortollo)
4. Tom Boonen (Quick Step) @ 1:43
5. Servais Knaven (Quick Step)
6. Stephan Wesseman (T-mobile)
7. Leon Van Bon (Lotto-Domo)
8. Stijn Devolder (USPS)
9. Mirko Celestino (Saeco) @ 4:34
10. Johan Musseew (Quick Step)
11. George Hincapie (USPS)

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This time the early break never gets caught...

1. Wilfred Creskens (Quick-Step)
2. Frank Hoj (CSC)
3. Fabian Cancellera (Fassa Bortollo)
4. Tom Boonen (Quick Step) @ 1:43
5. Servais Knaven (Quick Step)
6. Stephan Wesseman (T-mobile)
7. Leon Van Bon (Lotto-Domo)
8. Stijn Devolder (USPS)
9. Mirko Celestino (Saeco) @ 4:34
10. Johan Musseew (Quick Step)
11. George Hincapie (USPS)

Hope springs eternal, but I don't see Quick-Step and Lotto letting that
happen this year. I would be nice if Ludo D. could pull off something like
that to cap his fairytale-like career.

1. Boonen
2. Van Bon
3. Wauters

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I take Peter as well. And George in the top 5.

pedalchick said:

This time the early break never gets caught...
1. Wilfred Creskens (Quick-Step)
2. Frank Hoj (CSC)
3. Fabian Cancellera (Fassa Bortollo)
4. Tom Boonen (Quick Step) @ 1:43
5. Servais Knaven (Quick Step)
6. Stephan Wesseman (T-mobile)
7. Leon Van Bon (Lotto-Domo)
8. Stijn Devolder (USPS)
9. Mirko Celestino (Saeco) @ 4:34
10. Johan Musseew (Quick Step)
11. George Hincapie (USPS)

You now must all bow to my prediction prowess. A group of non-favorites
sprinted for the big cobble.

Good for Big Mag, too bad for Cancellera who should have won the sprint
but panicked and went way too early... and way too bad for poor Johan.
What a disasterous time to flat.

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pedalchick said:

pedalchick said:

This time the early break never gets caught...
1. Wilfred Creskens (Quick-Step)
2. Frank Hoj (CSC)
3. Fabian Cancellera (Fassa Bortollo)
4. Tom Boonen (Quick Step) @ 1:43
5. Servais Knaven (Quick Step)
6. Stephan Wesseman (T-mobile)
7. Leon Van Bon (Lotto-Domo)
8. Stijn Devolder (USPS)
9. Mirko Celestino (Saeco) @ 4:34
10. Johan Musseew (Quick Step)
11. George Hincapie (USPS)

You now must all bow to my prediction prowess. A group of non-favorites
sprinted for the big cobble.

This was the reason for the candyass rule.

pedalchick said:

pedalchick wrote:
and way too bad for poor Johan.
What a disasterous time to flat.

Finally there is justice in this world!!

Remember 1996 when SuperWanker Squinzi ordered his DS to tell his lads to leave Ballerini who should have been a protected rider?

Poor Freakin' Ballerini. He'd flatted three times in the closing clicks and still almost clawed himself back into contention.

And then the same SuperWanker further dictated the finishing order when he was guaranteed a 1..2..3 finish?

Poor Bortolami and Tafi were in tears..

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Davey Crockett
Six-Day site: http://members.rogers.com/sixday/sixday.html

Robert Chung said:

pedalchick said:

pedalchick said:

This time the early break never gets caught...
1. Wilfred Creskens (Quick-Step)
2. Frank Hoj (CSC)
3. Fabian Cancellera (Fassa Bortollo)
4. Tom Boonen (Quick Step) @ 1:43
5. Servais Knaven (Quick Step)
6. Stephan Wesseman (T-mobile)
7. Leon Van Bon (Lotto-Domo)
8. Stijn Devolder (USPS)
9. Mirko Celestino (Saeco) @ 4:34
10. Johan Musseew (Quick Step)
11. George Hincapie (USPS)

You now must all bow to my prediction prowess. A group of non-
favorites sprinted for the big cobble.

This was the reason for the candyass rule.

You'll need to remind me of this candyass rule, as it was apparently
before my time.

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pedalchick said:

Robert Chung said:

pedalchick said:

pedalchick wrote:
> This time the early break never gets caught...

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Quoted message said:

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You now must all bow to my prediction prowess. A group of non-
favorites sprinted for the big cobble.

This was the reason for the candyass rule.

You'll need to remind me of this candyass rule, as it was apparently
before my time.

Ugh. There are two ways to view the candyass rule: as a strict law, and as
the
interpretation of the law and what it was attempting to address--sort of
like the
Torah and the Talmud, or the Constitution and the intent of the original
framers.

The operational rule was: make one pick.

The behavior that prompted the rule was making multiple guesses in
a shotgun fashion, and then claiming credit when any one of the choices
won. That's candyass.

I don't particularly hold to the "make only one pick" rule. I do think,
however,
that if one makes eleven picks then demanding that we now bow to your
prediction
prowess is a tad unseemly, especially since Backstedt wasn't even one of
them.

Robert Chung said:

pedalchick said:

Robert Chung said:

pedalchick wrote:
> pedalchick wrote:
> > This time the early break never gets caught...

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> You now must all bow to my prediction prowess. A group of non-
> favorites sprinted for the big cobble.

This was the reason for the candyass rule.

You'll need to remind me of this candyass rule, as it was apparently
before my time.

Ugh. There are two ways to view the candyass rule: as a strict law, and
as the interpretation of the law and what it was attempting to address--
sort of like the Torah and the Talmud, or the Constitution and the
intent of the original framers.
The operational rule was: make one pick.
The behavior that prompted the rule was making multiple guesses in a
shotgun fashion, and then claiming credit when any one of the choices
won. That's candyass.
I don't particularly hold to the "make only one pick" rule. I do think,
however, that if one makes eleven picks then demanding that we now bow
to your prediction prowess is a tad unseemly, especially since Backstedt
wasn't even one of them.

the bow to me comment was tongue in cheek, obviously. There were two
other names I had thought about putting on there, one was Flecha, the
other was Big Magnus, just because he did well at Gent, but he usually
comes in from larger groups like the Gent race, rather than making the
small selections that happen at P-R, so I totally discounted him.
Mostly, I was going by who is kind of cute - does that make me candyass?

Now that I know it, I'll abide by the candyass rule, promise.

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> pedalchick wrote:
> > This time the early break never gets caught...
> > 1. Wilfred Creskens (Quick-Step)
> > 2. Frank Hoj (CSC)
> > 3. Fabian Cancellera (Fassa Bortollo)
> > 4. Tom Boonen (Quick Step) @ 1:43
> > 5. Servais Knaven (Quick Step)
> > 6. Stephan Wesseman (T-mobile)
> > 7. Leon Van Bon (Lotto-Domo)
> > 8. Stijn Devolder (USPS)
> > 9. Mirko Celestino (Saeco) @ 4:34
> > 10. Johan Musseew (Quick Step)
> > 11. George Hincapie (USPS)

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Though candyass, you get some points for picking Cancellara for 3rd.
That was less than obvious. If he had actually finished 3rd rather
than 4th I'd start to worry.

Don't forget Van Bon's 7th ;-)

Jeff