tour de france......

ok, so i am enjoying the latest issue of outside magazine....which is dedicated to the tour de france......starts july 3 and i personally cannot wait........my mother tapes each stage on oln...and then we watch it with one day's delay................furiously rushing through the lance suburu commercials.......and trying not to read newspaper or online commentary about the goings-on......this is difficult when big things happen...like jan ulrich having a major wreck......anyway.......i have been around bike racing long enough to know who has been on what team at some point....maybe not the specific year......but at some point.....and this is good.....we sit back with a beer.....and just enjoy the drama........and phil liggett and paul sherwin...the oln commentators....they are a real trip.....for so many years...they are like baseball commentators....they remember every stage of every race......and who did what....it si amazing...........i once dated briefly the food service director at jewish hospital in cincinnati...he was really into baseball....and good food...and he once asked me to both a baseball game and dinner at la maisonette...but i declined...because he was not my type.........and because he apptempted to date all the dietitian interns that came his way.....but that is beside the point.............so...can lance win a 6th time.....can tyler hamilton, who owns an apartment directly above lance's in girona, spain......come through this year....he is, by the way...from the boston area......and used to be a college skier before he took up cycling.......will jan ulrich, the german telecom fellow get by 5 straight 2nd place finishes....to win finally.......and there are so many others who could do it....the basque team folks.....the dutch....and italians.....the french, for heaven's sake...............but lance is in some sort of zone, now that he has divorced his wife and taken up with his hippie-chick girlfriend/rockstar and is living on the edge..............who knows.....regardless...i cannot wait till july 3........