What's your OLN irritant?

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Last year it was the bad Dennis Hopper clone raving about 'the cyclism"

This year it's the spazzed-out BASE jumper proclaiming '..it was the
most powerful experience of my life...'

Thanks for preparing me. The cable guy doesn't show up here until Sat.
morning. By the time I'm home from my fred ride Sat night, I'll be
ready for "... the most powerful experience of my life ..."

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Last year it was the bad Dennis Hopper clone raving about 'the cyclism"

This year it's the spazzed-out BASE jumper proclaiming '..it was the
most powerful experience of my life...'

Al Trautwig.

that dude that's "embedded" w/ disco.

he doesnt know [censored] about cycling and never asks good follow-up
questions. andreu would be a much better choice, but this lightweight
would fare even worse asking questions of teams that dont feature lance
and cheryl. he should stick to AVP volleyball.

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Last year it was the bad Dennis Hopper clone raving about 'the cyclism"

This year it's the spazzed-out BASE jumper proclaiming '..it was the
most powerful experience of my life...'

What annoys me the most is that I think the OLN Yellow jersey is
pretty funny. I should hate that damn thing.

Secretly I might even want one... but could never bring myself to even
put it on, let alone wear it out of the house.

D

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Quoted message said:

Last year it was the bad Dennis Hopper clone raving about 'the cyclism"

I think you mean Jason Lee.

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This year it's the spazzed-out BASE jumper proclaiming '..it was the
most powerful experience of my life...'

That doesn't bother me. What does bother me is OLN blowing most of thier
cycling coverage budget on one race. Someone should tell them there are two
other major stage races that deserve better coverage than what they are giving
them.
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Alex

Tim Lines said:

Thanks for preparing me. The cable guy doesn't show up here until Sat.
morning. By the time I'm home from my fred ride Sat night, I'll be
ready for "... the most powerful experience of my life ..."

Chris Daggs is coming to your house?

On the other hand, the Capital One commercials are great.

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Tim Lines said:

Thanks for preparing me. The cable guy doesn't show up here until Sat.
morning. By the time I'm home from my fred ride Sat night, I'll be ready
for "... the most powerful experience of my life ..."

Chris Daggs is coming to your house?

Alex Rodriguez said:

What does bother me is OLN blowing most of thier
cycling coverage budget on one race. Someone should tell them there are two
other major stage races that deserve better coverage than what they are giving
them.

I tried that, pointing out in an email that many loyal OLN viewers
would be interested in again seeing expanded coverage of the Giro and
the Vuelta as in past years, as opposed to round-the-clock bull riding
and animal killing (hunting and fishing) programs. I did not receive an
acknowledgement to my email.

Alex Rodriguez said:

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Quoted message said:

Last year it was the bad Dennis Hopper clone raving about 'the cyclism"

I think you mean Jason Lee.

Quoted message said:

This year it's the spazzed-out BASE jumper proclaiming '..it was the
most powerful experience of my life...'

That doesn't bother me. What does bother me is OLN blowing most of thier
cycling coverage budget on one race. Someone should tell them there are two
other major stage races that deserve better coverage than what they are giving
them.

It won't help. Lance doesn't ride those and they only want to cover Lance.
They'll cover the rest of the race to the extent necessary to talk about Lance,
but not to the extent that it might interfere with their Lance coverage.

No Lance, no coverage.

Ron

RonSonic said:

It won't help. Lance doesn't ride those and they only want to cover Lance.
They'll cover the rest of the race to the extent necessary to talk about Lance,
but not to the extent that it might interfere with their Lance coverage.

No Lance, no coverage.

Bingo...it's like network TV coverage of golf...all Tiger all the time. They
aren't covering cycling to please the die-hard cycling fans. They are after
ratings and the resultant advertising dollars, and to get that they need to draw
the casual fan (same thing with Tiger). It's about the $$$$$$$$$.

Dave Clary/Corpus Christi, Tx

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 01:01:25 GMT, Dave Clary <[email hidden]>

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RonSonic said:

It won't help. Lance doesn't ride those and they only want to cover Lance.
They'll cover the rest of the race to the extent necessary to talk about Lance,
but not to the extent that it might interfere with their Lance coverage.

No Lance, no coverage.

Bingo...it's like network TV coverage of golf...all Tiger all the time. They
aren't covering cycling to please the die-hard cycling fans. They are after
ratings and the resultant advertising dollars, and to get that they need to draw
the casual fan (same thing with Tiger). It's about the $$$$$$$$$.

Dave Clary/Corpus Christi, Tx

Thing is that cycling is supposed to be a TEAM sport, unlike golf.When
the red sox won the series they didn't just yammer endlessly about
Manny Ramirez (or whoever) and forget everyone else on the team! Fans
would never put up with that... it's unfair to do that with cycling as
well. Maybe because it's a SPORT...hello... not a variety show?

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Last year it was the bad Dennis Hopper clone raving about 'the cyclism"

This year it's the spazzed-out BASE jumper proclaiming '..it was the
most powerful experience of my life...'

Just 5 years ago we couldn't even get descent coverage of the Tour de France
on TV. Now OLN gives us GREAT coverage and the sissies are crying that they
don't like the comercials.

What a bunch of whining little babies.

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 02:24:00 GMT, "Tom Kunich" <[email hidden]>

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Quoted message said:

Last year it was the bad Dennis Hopper clone raving about 'the cyclism"

This year it's the spazzed-out BASE jumper proclaiming '..it was the
most powerful experience of my life...'

Just 5 years ago we couldn't even get descent coverage of the Tour de France
on TV. Now OLN gives us GREAT coverage and the sissies are crying that they
don't like the comercials.

What a bunch of whining little babies.

Point taken, but out of every hour we get 20 minutes of commercials,
20 of "Lance this, Lance that" and then MAYBE 20 minutes of race
coverage.

It's like being given a $100 bill with a turd on it. You're really
happy but....

D

On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 22:34:59 -0400, David Ferguson <[email hidden]>

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Point taken, but out of every hour we get 20 minutes of commercials,
20 of "Lance this, Lance that" and then MAYBE 20 minutes of race
coverage.

Still beats the hell out of a weekend wrap up with Barry Thompkins!

David Ferguson said:

Point taken, but out of every hour we get 20 minutes of commercials,
20 of "Lance this, Lance that" and then MAYBE 20 minutes of race
coverage.

Tivo rocks.

Morgan
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Morgan Fletcher, [email hidden] Oakland, CA, USA

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Just 5 years ago we couldn't even get descent coverage of the Tour de France
on TV. Now OLN gives us GREAT coverage and the sissies are crying that they
don't like the comercials.

What a bunch of whining little babies.

Naw. Just a lack of historical perspective. Wide World of Sports did
show us Zootemelk and Hinault riding into Paris, and Van Impe attacking
Hinault and ???, with some pretty good commentary (ahem) by someone
else I can't remember who it was. Oy.

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Point taken, but out of every hour we get 20 minutes of commercials,
20 of "Lance this, Lance that" and then MAYBE 20 minutes of race
coverage.

Discount the LANCETHIS/THAT a pretty good amount as he is the biggest
story by far in this year's Tour. Or-- should we just skip over that
first day's ITT?

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It's like being given a $100 bill with a turd on it. You're >really happy but....

I think "turd" is a little strong. How about being glad said C-note
doesn't have John Tesch's picture on it? And did you notice, KG is
almost gone? Hope for the future, there. --D-y

David Ferguson said:

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 02:24:00 GMT, "Tom Kunich" <[email hidden]>

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Quoted message said:

Last year it was the bad Dennis Hopper clone raving about 'the cyclism"

This year it's the spazzed-out BASE jumper proclaiming '..it was the
most powerful experience of my life...'

Just 5 years ago we couldn't even get descent coverage of the Tour de France
on TV. Now OLN gives us GREAT coverage and the sissies are crying that they
don't like the comercials.

What a bunch of whining little babies.

Point taken, but out of every hour we get 20 minutes of commercials,
20 of "Lance this, Lance that" and then MAYBE 20 minutes of race
coverage.

It's like being given a $100 bill with a turd on it. You're really
happy but....

Beats the hell out of a turd with a quarter stuck in it - that's about
what we used to get pre-OLN.

Mark

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Thing is that cycling is supposed to be a TEAM sport, unlike golf.When
the red sox won the series they didn't just yammer endlessly about
Manny Ramirez (or whoever) and forget everyone else on the team!

If the Red Sox were Manny plus eight guys to literally carry water for him,
you better believe they'd yammer endlessly about him...

David Ferguson said:

Quoted message said:

Point taken, but out of every hour we get 20 minutes of commercials,
20 of "Lance this, Lance that" and then MAYBE 20 minutes of race
coverage.

Morgan Fletcher said:

Tivo rocks.

If you're a salesman, contact heather. Maybe she can give the rest of us
the videos she gave to Kurgan.