23 January 2011

Do the news Lou!

-Stybar must feel like the prettiest girl at the dance! To that end, the owner of Telenet-Fidea is a schmuck. When QuickStep makes you an offer to buy your ENTIRE team, you name a number, and then retire once the 'i's are dotted and 't's are crossed. Especially considering a Czech billionaire is the one stroking the checks.
I have a feeling that Stybar will end up with much less $, and the Telenet deal will go away. Stop the swordfight gentlemen, it's bad for business!

-Vaughters seems to be making an effort to distance himself from all things USPS and Lance. Stick your head a little deeper in the sand JV...maybe folks will believe that you were the only clean guy on the LA Express!
Firing White was a little harsh, especially considering his success as a DS. Now he can just go work for GreenEDGE, which is probably what was going to happen anyway. JV is a bit more duplicitous than people believe...

-Katie F'n Compton goes horizon at Hoogerheide, and again, there's no video of it...
Look for Katie to wreck the WC race next weekend!
And it seems the Belgians at CX Worlds are about as cooperative as the Italians at Road Worlds.

-Stage 5 of the TdU was a crit/circuit and was BRUTAL! Rarely do you see the entire field lined out like that...

...and how about McEwen? That old dog can still hunt!

-And today's episode of 'As the Lance Turns' is canceled because, well, I just couldn't care any less about the whole thing! Want to bust a doper? Put Joe Papp's drug dealing ass in jail...

No ride today...the antibiotics I've been on for the past 10 days have effectively rendered me ineffectual. My stomach sounds like a cage fight is going on, which make levels of motivation very low. Don't want to be out in Sandy Run and have to make a stop in the pines...

Namaste...

2 comments:

JMP said...

Ummmm, yeah - thanks for the clear expression of your vindictiveness.

How is it, exactly, that the greater benefit will accrue to society by having me sent to prison as opposed to potentially being given a probationary sentence that allows me to continue my working on behalf of the clean sport movement?

MM said...

Joe, you SOLD drugs for years, then continued to sell them while testifying under oath. You also made a PILE of cash in the process.
By your rationale, as skewed and twisted as it's become, do you believe that your crime wasn't as bad as selling other 'illicit' drugs? It's the letter of the Law, and Federal Law at that!
If a person had been arrested by the Feds for selling weed to 187 'clients', they'd be under the jail, regardless of who they sold out in the process.
I'm all for clean cycling, and clean sport, but as Dennis Miller once said, "No one comes to Jesus on prom night..."!
If you had not been busted, would your conscience have been such that you would have come clean about this whole affair of your own volition? Somehow, I highly doubt it! Sure, you may have stopped selling, but you would have also kept your mouth shut.
Now that going to big boy jail is a real possibility, it's quite amusing that you scream about clean sport to all who will listen.
You want a societal benefit?
You should spend time in jail, thus showing those who sell PEDs, and those who use PEDs, that one cannot act in this manner without real repercussions. Maybe seeing a drug-dealing perjur go to the pokey would make someone think a bit harder about the decision to sell, or use! Probation is a slap on the wrist.
Another societal benefit would be the sheer number of license plates you could make, or the volume of garbage you could clean of the side of the highway on work detail.