Re: Lance!
From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] There didn't seem to be much interest here, I thought. I watched the penultimate stage live, postponing a bike ride of my own until I saw the result. Then I recorded the same stage while I was work, just to see if I missed anything. I treid to record the final day, but messed something up. I didn't get to watch any if it, live or otherwise, so I had to content myself with following via web coverage, because my wife's tolerance for sports on TV is measured in nanoseconds. :-) I am glad he won the way he did. He said the same thing, but five straight of anything is great. So many bad things happened, the wrecks, his cold. But he survived. The closeness certainly kept the race more interesting than his past few. I'm hoping he can return to his old form and win his sixth by a large margin. Can anyone believe the sportsmanship shown when he wrecked the second time? I have not heard anyone say that Lance didn't show the same sportsmanship when Beloki crashed, but it was near the end going downhill. If Beloki was okay, he'd have only lost a minute at the most, if that. But I'm sure Lance knew, from his team radio, the he was seriously hurt. Apparently, Lance similarly held up for Ullrich in a previous TdF: Jan is a good guy, he's an honorable guy, Armstrong said. He probably didn't forget that when he crashed in 2001, in what appeared to be a serious crash, I told everyone: 'We can't race until he gets back up.' As we say in English: 'What goes around comes around,' and so I appreciate him doing that. _ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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Bryon Daly wrote: From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] There didn't seem to be much interest here, I thought. I watched the penultimate stage live, postponing a bike ride of my own until I saw the result. Then I recorded the same stage while I was work, just to see if I missed anything. I treid to record the final day, but messed something up. I didn't get to watch any if it, live or otherwise, so I had to content myself with following via web coverage, because my wife's tolerance for sports on TV is measured in nanoseconds. :-) Hm. Anything you can do about that? (Or do you want to, even?) Dan's mother wasn't interested in football when she married Dan's father. Dan's father enjoyed watching football games on TV, and asked her to join him, and explained what was going on, first in simple terms, and when she got those, went into more of the nuances. When I married Dan, I wasn't really interested in football on TV. I mean, I'd watched the Texas vs. Texas AM matches on Thanksgivings when we were celebrating the holiday with his relatives (some of his cousins were *really* into it), but I was clueless a lot of the time. So one season, Dan asked me to watch one football game a week with him, and he explained what was going on. (It didn't hurt that his team was having a winning season.) By the end of the season, I had a much better grasp of the game -- and a lot more interest. Both Dan's mother and I are now more into football than our husbands. :) I don't pay much attention to basketball until the playoffs. I have an ambivalent attitude about baseball. Trying not to get sucked into the whole Who's ahead -- the Red Sox or the Yankees? thing that I tormented myself with in college, and if I start paying too much attention to baseball, that's going to happen. I'll watch hockey, but I'm never glued to it for 3 whole periods. (I was watching it a lot more when Sammy was under a year old and still being breastfed a fair bit -- nothing like a sporting event when you're sitting there with a baby attached to your nipple.) I didn't really watch the Tour de France much until this year, but I'm supposed to be somewhat horizontal a number of hours each day, and I could time it so that I got a 2-hour block of coverage on OLN at the same time I was lying down. I really enjoyed that. I got a lot more into it than I'll probably be able to for the next few years. There were a few times I missed the afternoon coverage and wanted to watch it in the evening, and Dan would sit in the room and read and look at the TV occasionally. A few times he said he never thought that he could get as interested in a cycling race as he was. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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Oh. When I saw the subject line, I thought the list was giving me advice on what I ought to do about this boil I have . . . At 09:41 PM 7/30/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering the level of interest shown in the Tour de France when it started, I'm surprised to see little or no mention of the fact, now that it's over, that Lance Armstrong won his fifth in a row. This one was more stirring than the previous 4, as his triumph was in doubt until the next-to-last day. He was used to blowing his competition away, and he just could not do so this year. I wouldn't be surprised if he savors this one the most, as it was his hardest-earned (except, perhaps, for his first, considering he was just coming off his miraculous recovery from cancer back then). Seriously . . . while I'm not a big sports fan in general, congratulations to him! --Ronn! :) I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed that I would see the last. --Dr. Jerry Pournelle ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lance! Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:33:42 -0500 Bryon Daly wrote: From: Kevin Tarr [EMAIL PROTECTED] There didn't seem to be much interest here, I thought. I watched the penultimate stage live, postponing a bike ride of my own until I saw the result. Then I recorded the same stage while I was work, just to see if I missed anything. I treid to record the final day, but messed something up. I didn't get to watch any if it, live or otherwise, so I had to content myself with following via web coverage, because my wife's tolerance for sports on TV is measured in nanoseconds. :-) Hm. Anything you can do about that? (Or do you want to, even?) Dan's mother wasn't interested in football when she married Dan's father. A Texas immigrant, huh? *grin* Cowboys home game days are official Texan state holidays. Both Dan's mother and I are now more into football than our husbands. :) It's the food, the water and the air. They work on the body synergistically to form little football-enabler cells that make up the heart of every Texan. (Don't mind me... I'm working on very little sleep.) I have an ambivalent attitude about baseball. Trying not to get sucked into the whole Who's ahead -- the Red Sox or the Yankees? thing that I tormented myself with in college, and if I start paying too much attention to baseball, that's going to happen. *perk* Baseball? :-D Oh yeah, the Mets *still* suck. *sigh* Nevermind. Wake me when the Yankees win the 2003 Series. Jon Le Blog: http://zarq.livejournal.com _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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Jon wrote: It's the food, the water and the air. They work on the body synergistically to form little football-enabler cells that make up the heart of every Texan. (Don't mind me... I'm working on very little sleep.) Thank all the Dark Gods I'm immune, then. Hate football, hate watching it. I'd rather get a boil lanced than watch football. My wife and kids are the same, and I'll do my best to keep them pure, thankyouverymuch. Adam C. Lipscomb 10 years in Texas, no football-oriented desires at all. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read the blog. Love the blog. http://aclipscomb.blogspot.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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I wrote: Hate football, hate watching it. I'd rather get a boil lanced than watch football. My wife and kids are the same, and I'll do my best to keep them pure, thankyouverymuch. Of course, it goes without saying that I'm not going to stop others from enjoying football. To each his own, eh? Adam C. Lipscomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read the blog. Love the blog. http://aclipscomb.blogspot.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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From: Adam C. Lipscomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lance! Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:47:58 -0500 Jon wrote: It's the food, the water and the air. They work on the body synergistically to form little football-enabler cells that make up the heart of every Texan. (Don't mind me... I'm working on very little sleep.) Thank all the Dark Gods I'm immune, then. Hate football, hate watching it. I'd rather get a boil lanced than watch football. My wife and kids are the same, and I'll do my best to keep them pure, thankyouverymuch. Don't hold back! Tell us how you really feel! :) I really have no problem with it until funds that should be directed towards education in the school systems wind up funding high school teams. It's the Billy the Halfback can't add, but who cares? mentality that upsets me. Adam C. Lipscomb 10 years in Texas, no football-oriented desires at all. Yeah, Texas immigrants don't always contract the disease. :) Jon It's Not An Obsession But A Way Of Life Maru Le Blog: http://zarq.livejournal.com _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bryon Daly wrote: I didn't get to watch any if it, live or otherwise, so I had to content myself with following via web coverage, because my wife's tolerance for sports on TV is measured in nanoseconds. :-) Hm. Anything you can do about that? (Or do you want to, even?) Maybe I could foster some sports interest in her, if I worked on it like Dan and his father did. The problem is most TV time we get these days is spent watching Bob the Builder and Bear in the Big Blue House, so adult tv-time is rather a precious commodity, and it's tough to ask her to use that time to watch stuff she's not interested in. I didn't really watch the Tour de France much until this year, but I'm supposed to be somewhat horizontal a number of hours each day, and I could time it so that I got a 2-hour block of coverage on OLN at the same time I was lying down. I really enjoyed that. I got a lot more into it than I'll probably be able to for the next few years. There The first time I really got into it was when LA was still a rising star, but hadn't had much success with the TdF yet. In a terrible accident on one stage, one of his (Motorola?) teammates (Fabio Castarelli) got killed in a crash on a high speed turn. The next day's stage, no one raced: they all rode together, and donated all the stage prize money to Castarelli's family. The next day, Lance was unstoppable and dedicated the stage win (only his career second stage win) to his fallen teammate. Very riveting, but fortunately, that kind of drama doesn't happen too often. _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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Jon Gabriel wrote: From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan's mother wasn't interested in football when she married Dan's father. A Texas immigrant, huh? Acutally, *she* is the Texas native, *he's* the immigrant. Professional football wasn't a big deal when she was growing up. I don't know if she got to go to high school games when she was in high school. (She was out in the country, on a dairy farm, and they all got up early every day.) The only sporting events I've heard her talking about attending when she was young were baseball games. The Dallas Cowboys weren't even in existence until she was over 20. Now, her sons were raised as good Texans. ;) Julia Hook 'Em Horns! ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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Adam C. Lipscomb wrote: I wrote: Hate football, hate watching it. I'd rather get a boil lanced than watch football. My wife and kids are the same, and I'll do my best to keep them pure, thankyouverymuch. Of course, it goes without saying that I'm not going to stop others from enjoying football. To each his own, eh? OK, if Thanksgiving is at our house and you want to come over to scarf down some really good cornbread dressing, just stay out of the living room. If you hang around the breakfast nook and keep anyone in the kitchen company, you'll have made at least one friend. :) (And if you offer to help so that if someone in the kitchen wanted to be watching the game, they could, someone would be *really* happy.) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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At 09:33 AM 7/31/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: I have an ambivalent attitude about baseball. Trying not to get sucked into the whole Who's ahead -- the Red Sox or the Yankees? thing that I tormented myself with in college, and if I start paying too much attention to baseball, that's going to happen. I'll watch hockey, but I'm never glued to it for 3 whole periods. (I was watching it a lot more when Sammy was under a year old and still being breastfed a fair bit -- nothing like a sporting event when you're sitting there with a baby attached to your nipple.) Yes. I know that whenever I'm at the stadium, being able to watch the section composed of breast feeding mothers adds so much to the experience . . . -- Ronn! :) Professional Smart-Aleck. Do Not Attempt. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 09:33 AM 7/31/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: I have an ambivalent attitude about baseball. Trying not to get sucked into the whole Who's ahead -- the Red Sox or the Yankees? thing that I tormented myself with in college, and if I start paying too much attention to baseball, that's going to happen. I'll watch hockey, but I'm never glued to it for 3 whole periods. (I was watching it a lot more when Sammy was under a year old and still being breastfed a fair bit -- nothing like a sporting event when you're sitting there with a baby attached to your nipple.) Yes. I know that whenever I'm at the stadium, being able to watch the section composed of breast feeding mothers adds so much to the experience . . . OK, just for that, I'm going to go to a Round Rock Express game next year with the *intent* of breastfeeding one baby or the other during the game. ;) Hey, if you can get take-out from Hooters to bring back to your seat Julia but the take-outs don't include the waitresses ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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At 07:32 PM 7/31/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: Ronn!Blankenship wrote: At 09:33 AM 7/31/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: I have an ambivalent attitude about baseball. Trying not to get sucked into the whole Who's ahead -- the Red Sox or the Yankees? thing that I tormented myself with in college, and if I start paying too much attention to baseball, that's going to happen. I'll watch hockey, but I'm never glued to it for 3 whole periods. (I was watching it a lot more when Sammy was under a year old and still being breastfed a fair bit -- nothing like a sporting event when you're sitting there with a baby attached to your nipple.) Yes. I know that whenever I'm at the stadium, being able to watch the section composed of breast feeding mothers adds so much to the experience . . . OK, just for that, I'm going to go to a Round Rock Express game next year with the *intent* of breastfeeding one baby or the other during the game. ;) Hey, if you can get take-out from Hooters to bring back to your seat Julia but the take-outs don't include the waitresses I don't want to see anything that was taken out of a Hooters' waitress, either . . . Silicone Makes For Silly Cones Maru --Ronn! :) I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed that I would see the last. --Dr. Jerry Pournelle ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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Considering the level of interest shown in the Tour de France when it started, I'm surprised to see little or no mention of the fact, now that it's over, that Lance Armstrong won his fifth in a row. This one was more stirring than the previous 4, as his triumph was in doubt until the next-to-last day. He was used to blowing his competition away, and he just could not do so this year. I wouldn't be surprised if he savors this one the most, as it was his hardest-earned (except, perhaps, for his first, considering he was just coming off his miraculous recovery from cancer back then). Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the last. - Dr Jerry Pournelle ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering the level of interest shown in the Tour de France when it started, I'm surprised to see little or no mention of the fact, now that it's over, that Lance Armstrong won his fifth in a row. This one was more stirring than the previous 4, as his triumph was in doubt until the next-to-last day. He was used to blowing his competition away, and he just could not do so this year. I wouldn't be surprised if he savors this one the most, as it was his hardest-earned (except, perhaps, for his first, considering he was just coming off his miraculous recovery from cancer back then). I was busy e-mailing back and forth with Kevin about it all, and one of my friends was calling me every day about that day's stage, except on the rest days. (Then she'd call me about baseball games.) Kinda weird now, she hasn't called me in a few days. :) I've also been soaking up everything the Austin paper has published on it. He went to a conference on cancer after he won the Tour, did anyone else know that? He made some kind of crack about how he wouldn't be talking much, due to the hard time his 200 friends had given him in the last 3 weeks. :) Anyone besides me read _It's Not About the Bike_? Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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At 09:41 PM 7/30/2003 -0400, you wrote: Considering the level of interest shown in the Tour de France when it started, I'm surprised to see little or no mention of the fact, now that it's over, that Lance Armstrong won his fifth in a row. This one was more stirring than the previous 4, as his triumph was in doubt until the next-to-last day. He was used to blowing his competition away, and he just could not do so this year. I wouldn't be surprised if he savors this one the most, as it was his hardest-earned (except, perhaps, for his first, considering he was just coming off his miraculous recovery from cancer back then). Tom Beck There didn't seem to be much interest here, I thought. I watched the penultimate stage live, postponing a bike ride of my own until I saw the result. Then I recorded the same stage while I was work, just to see if I missed anything. I treid to record the final day, but messed something up. I did breathe relief when the outcome was known, and breathlessly watched stage 13, pumping my own fist when Armstrong came around the corner so quickly after Ullrich got second on the final climb, Lance keeping the yellow jersey. But I'm not one of 'those' fans. The only time I'll flip out is watching the Yanks, or PSU. So Lance won. Yahoo. I went for a bike ride and drank beer that night, but I would have done that if he came in second. I am glad he won the way he did. He said the same thing, but five straight of anything is great. So many bad things happened, the wrecks, his cold. But he survived. Can anyone believe the sportsmanship shown when he wrecked the second time? I have not heard anyone say that Lance didn't show the same sportsmanship when Beloki crashed, but it was near the end going downhill. If Beloki was okay, he'd have only lost a minute at the most, if that. But I'm sure Lance knew, from his team radio, the he was seriously hurt. Kevin T. - VRWC On Monday Letterman had a guy ride from backstage, down the stairs, up the isle and out the back door. He was wearing sunglasses, a helmet, postal shorts and the postal yellow jersey. While the guy had biker legs, he was also fatter then me. It was pretty funny. Dave kept saying, Yes, that was Lance. He couldn't stop. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julia Thompson Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:02 PM To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: Lance! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering the level of interest shown in the Tour de France when it started, I'm surprised to see little or no mention of the fact, now that it's over, that Lance Armstrong won his fifth in a row. This one was more stirring than the previous 4, as his triumph was in doubt until the next-to-last day. He was used to blowing his competition away, and he just could not do so this year. I wouldn't be surprised if he savors this one the most, as it was his hardest-earned (except, perhaps, for his first, considering he was just coming off his miraculous recovery from cancer back then). I was busy e-mailing back and forth with Kevin about it all, and one of my friends was calling me every day about that day's stage, except on the rest days. (Then she'd call me about baseball games.) Kinda weird now, she hasn't called me in a few days. :) I've also been soaking up everything the Austin paper has published on it. He went to a conference on cancer after he won the Tour, did anyone else know that? He made some kind of crack about how he wouldn't be talking much, due to the hard time his 200 friends had given him in the last 3 weeks. :) Almost every radio show, tv show and article I've read has included his accomplishment (5 straight wins) as something of a footnote. They didn't forget to mention it but didn't make a big deal out of it either. Anyone besides me read _It's Not About the Bike_? It's sitting on my 'to read shelf', which means I'll probably get to it around 2006. ;) Did anyone else catch his Nike ad? It only ran every 5 minutes during the coverage. ;) Awesome! Jon ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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Jon Gabriel wrote: Did anyone else catch his Nike ad? It only ran every 5 minutes during the coverage. ;) Awesome! I just noticed the Subaru ad, myself. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
