Sunday, July 06, 2008

Thank you OLN, er, I mean Versus.

For not making my ears bleed this year listening to the ignorance of Al Trautwig during the Tour coverage this year. Craig Hummer has always provided knowledgable reporting in the past and he is a welcome replacement for the melodramatic banter of Trautwig.

Good on ya.

10 comments:

justfivegrins said...

Hummer is still pretty wooden compared to Bobke, but at least he was an athlete and can identify. My vote for the all time worst was Adrian Karsten.

Brian said...

If I see that damn Versus "Take Back the Tour" Commercial one more time....

P-Dog said...

All Your Tours Are Belong To Us Bitches.

P-Dog said...

Wait a minute.. did JFG just say he identifies with Bobke?

justfivegrins said...

No P-doggie - I said that Hummer can identify as a former athlete, whereas Trautwig (or fishhair) and Karstan were just professional voices.

Bobke however is THE best, a true American original!

And Brian, if you play the "take back the tour" commercial backwards you get this song from the Burning Heads - http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/b/burningheads700/sossameoldshit32729.html

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Anonymous said...

I just wish they'd stop doing exposes of Colombia and Chipotle. I got all that shit from reading Cycle Sport...

I want to see an expose on Hinault and how he's doing with his training... do an interview with that guy

Anonymous said...

I want to see an expose on the guy who knows he didn't finish in the money but takes the prize anyway because the promoter was slow to make the correction.

PNWBuckeye said...

Um yeah, about that. The expose states that said guy's team mate claimed the prizes for the entire team (including the one we are talking about) and that the prize did indeed eventually make it into the correct person's hands.

Andrew F Martin said...

WHAT?! You gave Schniepp that $20GC at the restaurant at that town 20mi from anywhere that neither you, nor he, nor the rest of us would ever use?

At least I got tubes.