[email hidden] (Roland2k) wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
Quoted message said:Here's my ESPN rant. Here's a couple of lines from today's article.
The article is titled "Armstong quickly gets back into race."
The first line of the article reads "Lance Armstrong fell off his bike
shortly after the start of the sixth stage of the Tour de France on
Friday, then quickly got back in the race."
He fell off his bike? Sounds like a kid with the training wheels just
removed. How about "Armstrong was involved in a crash early in today's
stage. He appeared to be unhurt, and quickly rejoined the peloton."
"They were among more than 180 challengers trying to deny Armstrong
another Tour title."
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen written regarding the
Tour. And it comes from a network that bills itself "the worldwide
leader in sports." Maybe there should be a subtitle that reads "if
your definition of worldwide is the United States."
Man, do I hate ESPN! OK, rant over.
Roland
Rolly, ol' bud, you should apply there, straighten them out, give the
community the informative commentary it needs.
Possible examples:
"Man, those cutters suck. Someone should plant hash in their bags and
tip off the gendarmarie."
"The way McEwen rides, he's got no creds ripping into Rene, like
that."
"I haven't seen so many crashes since I first used Windows 95"
"Lance isn't trying to keep the Maillot Jaune, at the moment, because
it's a long race, which has just begun and he doesn't want to wear out
his team chasing every attack when some invited team could do that and
the sprinters teams will look after the end of the stages anyway.
It's like saving your pay all week to go out Friday night, rather than
blowing it early in the week then sitting at home on Friday, wanking
off to John Madden on the radio."
"This has been a very dramatic race so far, particularly as this much
selection usually doesn't happen this soon in the GC. The only people
likely to say it's boring are probably fat and stupid and sitting on
their overly large asses watching ESPN right no...What? What's with
the slashing across the throat gesture, I'm not finished yet, you want
real sports news, I'm giving it, not that overhyped [censored] about a bunch
of fat guys standing around a diamond scratching their nuts and
.......zzkt"
