Wednesday, February 14, 2007

American team plans to never win



From the country that brings you the best in security theater comes to you anti-doping theater. US-based team Slipstream has announced plans to blow their load administer fifty doping controls per year to each team member. Apparently claiming to spend 400,000USD on team-sponsored doping tests is supposed to make us feel good. And by feel good I mean laugh and point as the riders on Team Slipstream get consistently dropped. It seems that a goal of having a "clean" team is to attract sponsors which might, understandably, given the seemingly endless doping scandals in cycling, be skittish about putting money into a team. Team Slipstream is going to need that extra sponsorship money to pay for all those extra doping tests.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Doping makes you faster. When you're faster you win. When you win there are more pictures taken. When more pictures are taken the logos are seen in the magazines. When the logos are seen more kids buy Zips.(the velcro does make them VERY user friendly) So, as a nod to neo-keynesian economist James Tobin, I say this: Supply and demand is predicated upon the the original synthesis but puts more emphasis on microfoundations, the use of Walrasian general equilibrium theory in macroeconomics. This developed over time. It is often contrasted with the post-Keynesianism of Paul Davidson, et al., which emphasizes the role of fundamental uncertainty in economic life, especially concerning issues of private fixed investment. So in short, good luck America with your "clean" team and the eventual downfall of 'the business of biking' because you're so concerned that someone else's testicals will shrink. Who cares? They're French and Italians! Life is about finish lines, not fairplay. So, American team plans to never win? We'll show them, we'll claim the moral highground and sweep the economic foreground under our large, manly, testicular ball sack!! U.S.A!! U.S.A!!

mr60% said...

For the record, Mr 60 is only concerned with his own shrinking, Basque testicles.
Keynesian Theory? C'est meilleur que laissez-faire economics! Fuck the private sector!
Viva Che!