Noooo! Rain sucks gimme my AToC!!!!

[smurfalicious]

Grrr! I came home from the barn earlier than planned because I thought I was missing the race streaming on my comp but nooooo! I have never given a rat's hind end about watching sports but after the prologue I am hooked. I yell, I scream, I console Tyler when he appears to be suf-fer-ing. Why? Why? Oh tell me there's a sports bar with Versus on and WiFi around here. ARGH!!! This is probably how the Arizona Comcast customers felt when they got porn instead of the superbowl. No, they might have enjoyed that. I'm gonna go cry now.

[Eden]

I've heard the weather has been interfering with the race broadcast (the planes that beam the signals back to the studios either cannot fly or cannot receive the signals from the camera - it happened with one of the spring classics in deep fog once too)

But on the good side- VS decided to air some of the women's crit, so long as the men's race wasn't coming through!

[DebTX]

I'm hooked too - it's going to be a great week of racing. Versus finally got the video feed going so at least we saw the end of the stage. The prologue yesterday got the whole thing started - and it motivated me to be out on my my bike this morning, despite some chilly winds.

[Aggie_Ama]

I am an avid Pro Cycling watcher and am super bummed not to be in Cali this year so was even more bummed not to have coverage yesterday. I was glad Mancebo won even though I am not a Rock Racing fan, he earned it and I was rooting for him. Doubt he will have much in the tank to keep the yellow but he deserved that stage.

And VS needs to send Craig Hummer away, he is interferring with my Phil & Paul time.

[NoNo]

Oh great, more rain today. So far the video is going, let's hope it stays that way. I don't want to listen to another awful Bob Roll interview. Also, can they PLEASE stop playing that horrid song when replaying shots from the race! That screeching guitar-type thing just cuts right through me, and once I notice it, it's all I can hear.

[Aggie_Ama]

I am going to stay out of the thread soon, I have the DVR going but the funniest thing was yesterday... Hummer babbling something about being happy to be warm in the booth (which he said 5 minutes earlier) and Phil and Paul staring at him blankly. It was really awkward! I am not sure if they didn't hear him or were annoyed that he was repeating himself, but if there were crickets you would have heard them.

[ny biker]

They heard him. I think he misread the teleprompter.

I'm okay with Craig. He is light years better than Al Trautwig.

[Aggie_Ama]

Hands down better than Trautwig who annoyed me pretending to know gymnastics and every other sport at the Olympics! Although as an aside Trautwig trying to commentate on the trampoline gymnastics was pee in your pants funny.

But I pretty much thought Hummer was usually when he showed up unable to pronounce my favorite Hincapie's name last year. By the end of the tour I think someone set him straight it was really bad! He is alright, just needs to be heard much less and I am happy. I listen for Phil and Paul!