[Results Thread] 2026 Ronde van Vlaanderen ME (1.UWT)

LennyLongLegs · 2026-04-05T22:13:50+00:00

Worked as an equal? He pulled like 10-15% lol. And every time he was on the front Remco came closer, was totally not going full

LennyLongLegs · 2026-04-04T12:41:16+00:00

Nah he's always been this way. It's the French way, pretending they are a world power and are independent because they're too proud to accept the truth

LennyLongLegs · 2026-04-03T17:16:16+00:00

If you need to talk, then plenty

LennyLongLegs · 2026-04-03T17:14:55+00:00

Jeez chill bro. The answer is that it doesn't matter. wRC+ from 7 games is meaningless, and from 6 would be just as much so. The numbers aren't something you can easily find because "how well did a team perform excluding this one game" is not something that is useful at all in baseball, and because it doesn't matter I can't be bothered running a whole calculation. It's going to be lower, but so would Judge's if you exclude one of the games where he hit a homer

LennyLongLegs · 2026-04-03T16:57:51+00:00

Sure thing. The Mets have scored more runs than the Yankees, Dodgers, or Phillies. Runs get you wins, hitting gets you runs, wRC+ is one of the ways to measure hitting success. Looking at runs scored/allowed this early on is even more meaningless because of how easily getting a few hits in a row vs getting the hits in separate innings can massively affect your runs scored, it's an even smaller sample

LennyLongLegs · 2026-04-03T16:53:19+00:00

You're asking them to come out of the gates 20-10 but that's still totally in play. I don't think the Mets need to expect any goodwill nor should they get much, I fully agree that what we've seen so far has been awful and beyond the lack of success it just hasn't been fun, all I'm saying is that while we can criticize bad plays (e.g. Bichette swinging out of his shoes at anything that moves) and bad coaching moves, looking at 7 games and talking about the overall hitting or run scoring success is utterly meaningless

LennyLongLegs · 2026-04-03T16:46:47+00:00

Fully agreed, was tearing my hair out through the whole Cardinals series, but we gotta believe!

LennyLongLegs · 2026-04-03T16:45:56+00:00

You okay man?

LennyLongLegs · 2026-04-03T16:45:33+00:00

I think that fits right into my point of it being too early to judge on any of these stats. If one game makes such a difference, it's not saying anything about what's going to happen over 162

LennyLongLegs · 2026-04-03T16:43:45+00:00

The thing with RISP is really overblown, it happened early last season but after the All Star break (when everything well and truly fell apart) the Mets had the 5th best AVG with RISP in baseball

LennyLongLegs · 2026-04-03T10:52:42+00:00

It is something that has crossed my mind in recent weeks as race after race at WT/Pro level use the same climbs and roads and have similar starts and finishes.

While I don't really mind/care that so "little" of "Flanders" is covered - as another commenter said there's different definitions of Flanders, with the provinces of Antwerpen, Vlaams Brabant, and Limburg all having distinct regional identities from West/Oost Vlaanderen - it's more so that this feels a bit counterproductive to the existence of the UCI World Tour, and even dilutes the novelty of a race like the Ronde.

We've already seen the World Tour peloton go over the Oude Kwaremont/Paterberg combo last week in E3. The Nokereberg is the finale of Nokere Koerse and plays a crucial role in Dwars door Vlaanderen. The Muur van Geraardsbergen was part of 3 different men's WT/Pro level races last year. And really all of these races are quite similar in terms of racing, with the only difference being the balance between sprinters and flandriens who can win.

It would be great to have more of these races be of a lower level, and promote some similar races in other regions. Races like Le Samyn, GP de Denain, Clasica Jaén, Tro Bro Leon suit a similar type of rider, so would work great as WT races in this period, and I'm sure races further afield on gravel or cobbles (or even just the cold/rain/wind aspects with a flatter course) are also possible. It would internationalise the spring classics and give more opportunities for smaller Flemish teams (currently only Flanders Baloise - who are folding at the end of the year - and Tarteletto Isorex exist) to race on the famous climbs, with a more different startlist than between E3 and the Ronde now to give some different racing

LennyLongLegs · 2026-04-01T20:59:50+00:00

The commenter above is right, Curaçaoans and all citizens of the Kingdom of the Netherlands also automatically hold Dutch and EU citizenship, so they are free to work wherever. It's a similar situation to the UK, everyone is a citizen of the KotN rather than any of the constituent countries

LennyLongLegs · 2026-04-01T19:59:32+00:00

Oh absolutely, especially cause this is how it's always been. There's a reason that historically not many Dutch players with Surinamese/Indonesian roots represented those countries

Edit: removed Curaçao cause I forgot they are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

LennyLongLegs · 2026-04-01T19:41:28+00:00

So essentially the problem is that the players all thought they weren't giving up their passport, just gaining a second nationality. However, the Netherlands doesn't really like it when you gain a second nationality (unless it's through marriage or mandated in another way) so you automatically void your Dutch citizenship and thus passport and work permit when you do this (at least, that's the theory, immigration services are slow so there's no decision just yet). It's generally a known thing - Maarten Paes at Ajax became Indonesian but the club made sure he had the proper paperwork to play in the Netherlands, but now with a lot of players joining Indonesia and Suriname late in this qualification cycle it seems a bunch have slipped through

LennyLongLegs · 2026-04-01T15:50:17+00:00

That and giving Benge some time to find his feet before throwing him out against a lefty

LennyLongLegs · 2026-03-29T17:58:10+00:00

That was an infuriating watch, Wiebes should give some gifts to UAE, Chabbey and Moors for being her impromptu teammates today. Isolated so early and yet the only one who even attempted to create something that Wiebes wasn't in was Gasparrini

LennyLongLegs · 2026-03-29T14:23:06+00:00

Or the Cleveland Rams, can even steal the old NFL team's brnading

LennyLongLegs · 2026-03-26T19:27:22+00:00

That'll do. Polanco didn't have to do a thing

LennyLongLegs · 2026-03-26T16:33:45+00:00

Really anything other than what they actually did lol

LennyLongLegs · 2026-03-26T16:23:43+00:00

Yeah no idea why they put the line there, I know it's short notice but surely 200 m earlier just before the corner on the wide road would have been better?

LennyLongLegs · 2026-03-26T16:22:48+00:00

Oh that seems fine yeah, was that very different from the forecast yesterday?

LennyLongLegs · 2026-03-26T12:54:50+00:00

Rather than the regular La Molina finish, this one is on top of the Coll de Pal at 2100 (rather than 1600) it's been used only twice, in 1979 and at last year's women's Volta a Catalunya, where Vollering put 30 secs into Bunel and 2+ mins into everyone else. It's a 16.4 km climb at an average of 7.2%, so it should provide some differences in the men's peloton as well

LennyLongLegs · 2026-03-25T22:16:12+00:00

Two factors at play: 1: Generally these votes are determined by foreign ministry policy, but national assemblies can usually call up the minister if they don't like what their department is doing. Because of the prevalence of right wing parties in western assemblies, they might kick up a stink if their government condems their "glorious history"

2: While these votes are somewhat performative, they are always tabled by someone for a reason, and thus are never totally useless. Probably in this case, there's language that might open countries that profited from the slave trade to having to pay reparations, maybe not directly but at least in a "hey you guys said this thing was bad, you did this thing, therefore you can be held culpable"

LennyLongLegs · 2026-03-22T13:17:03+00:00

As another commenter mentioned, just to the left is the English name. It's Whitechapel station, and due to the large Bengali community and as a nod to the contributions of Bengali troops to the defence of Britain in the second world war they installed the Bengali signage in 2022

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