SB Nation User Blog: samboo

Lance and Marlo Stanfield ???

samboo — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:52:47 -0000

For those Wire fans out there...

I have a new Lance theory. Lance is Marlo Stanfield. He cannot live outside of the game. Simple as that. Sorry but watching him play cancer funding politics is like watching Marlo with the Baltimore real estate developers. You knew it could not last..

Imagine this scene replayed on L'Alpe next July:

Lance (to Schleck the Younger, Gesink, pick your upstart): "Do you know who I am?"

Andy: "Do you know who I am? Didn't you see what I did last year?"

And then shots are fired...

Levi - where's the love?

samboo — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:51:31 -0000

OK I'm not a huge Levi fan, but I like the guy. Liked him when he came out of nowhere to podium at the Vuelta way back, liked him when he had the balls to leave USPS, felt sorry for him when he get zero support from Gerolsteiner, even respected his willingness to be 2nd banana at Disco last year twice -- first when they signed Basso and he had to do all of those interviews, then when The Accountant climbed better at the Tour. C'mon he even played water boy for George at US champs in 2006.

But conventional wisdom in the Podium Café community seems against Levi. Why?

*    He's not an asshole
*    He's not (obviously) doping
*    He's not Lance
*    He's a good guy, great teammate, decent albeit boring interview
*    He attacked the Chicken last year for his teammate - I didn't see anyone else doing that
*    Oh yeah, and that ITT where he came within 24 seconds of winning the whole tour.

Sure I wish he were as funny as Dave Z., as good an interview as Horner, or as sexy cool as my man Tommeke, but why do you guys drop all the hatred on the guy? Just cause he's boring?

Even the squeaky-voiced aussie wheelsucker gets more love around here.

Just curious...

Boogie !!!

samboo — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:03:26 -0000

Watching col d'aubisque again -- you really gotta hand it to Boogie riding so hard for El Pollo Dopo in his last tour. I hope he decides to ride on to Paris, and I hope Disco or Predictor let him lead the Peloton onto the Champe Elysees. He's class.

Maybe I'm just looking for a silver lining, but that would make me happy.