The 2008 Season Is Here!

The Tour of California started Sunday. I'm disappointed at Versus's TV coverage. Sundays was good because time trails are boring, but now that we are into the road stages I'd really like to see coverage like they provide during the Tour de France. With all the changes that have taken place amongst the teams I'd like to see them spend more time talking about the various teams. My other issue is that I'm in the central time zone so I now have to watch coverage from 10-11pm. We get a very condensed version of the day's events. That doesn't do the tour justice. I remember that last years whole Tour of Missouri was condensed into one 2 hour show. I don't get it. They are going to the effort and cost of sending a camera crew out to film the whole tour, but they are not giving it the desered TV time. It doesn't make sense. It's not fair to pro cycling fans and it's not fair to the American tours.

Well beyond the lack of TV coverage it was very exciting to the former Discovery team members in their new team jerseys. I was already a fan of Slipstream/Chipotle, but now I'm going to have to follow Astana. I like Levi and Johan, and they got screwed by the ASO. I'm hoping they go out and dominate this year (in the tours they are allowed to compete in) and show the world that they deserve to be allowed in all the pro tour events.

The Dude