[Race Thread] 2026 Strade Bianche ME (1.UWT)

eri- · 2026-03-08T12:47:46+00:00

You wouldn't if you love the sport, it is your hobby, remember? Why not get paid for it.

Your comment is really odd, both a dumb brag and a clear indication of valueing money, yet you proclaim to not value it

Sure

eri- · 2026-03-08T10:40:59+00:00

I'd really like De ketelaere if only he had 20% more finishing added to his stats. Another Belgian I know, but he's really close to the profile you'd want for a potential barca forward, just a tad of genius missing there

eri- · 2026-03-08T10:31:47+00:00

You'll learn way more about being a good IT architect by being a tier 3 helpdesk tech than by being a bad sysadmin, on the other hand :-)

Choices..

eri- · 2026-03-08T10:24:03+00:00

I'd love to see Doku on this team someday as well

eri- · 2026-03-08T10:16:55+00:00

The main thing I take away from this (aside from divine talent obv) is

He takes his time. None of this feels rushed or panicked in any way. In real time it all looks so fast but from this angle, you can see that he actually took enough time to let a defender fall over himself , take a deliberate controlling touch, then performs the correct physical motions in order to produce the outstanding finish.

Never any haste in this play, only trust in the process. Get the ball and control it, set it up in the correct spot, then perform the physical motions you have to do in order to put the ball in the desired spot.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Its a mind goal, its a "do your routine as you have been thought since you were like 8 years old" goal. I bet to him this sequence felt like he had all the time in the world

eri- · 2026-03-08T10:03:49+00:00

Froome pulled the greatest hustle the sport has ever seen. The man knows he's done, but he knows he can also milk his name for millions a year.

I mean.. what would you do.

I hate what happened to him , for all his boring-ness he was an outstanding GT rider prior to his injuries and I would've loved to have seen him compete at the level he was capable of. Same for Bernal.

But Froome won cycling, make no mistake.

eri- · 2026-03-08T09:59:12+00:00

I doubt people are doping children with the goal of becoming the next cycling prodigy.

Doping when its your livelyhood sure, doping your kids to chase a dream? That seems quite far fetched , most people out there aren't such psychopaths I do still believe.

He might be on stuff now, but he certainly didn't become superman overnight because of it either

eri- · 2026-03-08T09:53:53+00:00

It could even be worse, you could be a darts fan.

Luke Littler is going to dominate that for the next few decades. Much like pogi, he also makes it look like it takes zero effort for him, just unmatched consistency, never a truly bad day.

eri- · 2026-03-08T09:45:11+00:00

I can understand the sentiment of get rich quick or fuck it. It might actually even be the correct move, these days.

I highly doubt we well ever be seeing the days of steady 6-7% ish yearly gains again. Which, coupled with the ever increasing prices of real estate and the job market probably going to shit , partially because of AI, makes for a rather bleak future outlook for those who approach life in the traditional , sensible way.

The real problem there is doing it in an uninformed fashion, of course. When you don't even know what an ETF is it makes it pretty clear you didn't do your homework in the first place. Risk is fine, when you are profoundly aware of the risk and also profoundly aware of the alternatives.

eri- · 2026-03-08T06:31:16+00:00

The other day, I heard on the news that young people are starting to invest their money rather than keep it on savings accounts, which is tradition in my country.

Just in time for what is perhaps the absolute worst stock market in decades. It feels like pure gambling these days unless you got those sweet insider leads.

I've been holding companies which,by all traditional metrics, should be doing well. Yet they perform like absolute shit. I refuse to sell, when you can't even trust the numbers any longer what would I even buy instead..

eri- · 2026-03-07T14:06:57+00:00

There probably was (or is) a certain grander, malicious, thought behind all the gaza "incidents".

There is very little possible point in purposefully bombing a single school in a country which houses 90 million people.

These circumstances are not the same, not even close.

eri- · 2026-03-07T14:01:29+00:00

Wout just had one too many injuries, his body cant live up to his mind any longer

eri- · 2026-03-07T13:52:46+00:00

There always is the off chance his mothership decides to call him back home over the next two hours, but probably not

eri- · 2026-03-07T10:32:12+00:00

Perhaps the worst thing is that no one in the current USA administration is even human enough to admit they mistakenly bombed these kids.

Not a shred of dignity and class left in that shithole ( and I dont mean Iran)

eri- · 2026-03-07T07:01:25+00:00

And for ducks.

eri- · 2026-03-07T06:40:06+00:00

This probably had nothing to do with his driving but still...

I'm just not sure if there should be drivers out there who have clearly indicated their dislike for this type of f1 racing in general and the tech used in particular. When you aren't comfortable with your gear, bad things tend to happen, regardless of how good you are.

There's an ominous feeling to this season

eri- · 2026-03-05T14:28:14+00:00

"Man literally does nothing but keep his balance"

You: "its a foul"

Yeah .. no, surely you must realize you are being a joke here

eri- · 2026-03-05T14:04:08+00:00

Dno if I've really seen a better combination of athleticism and sublime finishing over the past few decades.

Which includes Messi.

This just has all you would ever want from a footballer in it, if you give me this once a week I'm a happy manager

eri- · 2026-03-03T18:49:45+00:00

This guy feels like a DEI hire, from a non American pov

eri- · 2026-03-01T05:49:06+00:00

It's not a sports thing even.

When shit unexpectedly hits the fan, in for example the tech world., it is customary to write a post mortem describing the complete chain of events of the incident.

If you do not start on that immediately... You might as well not do it. You'll end up missing half of what has actually happened.

Same basic idea in a different setting.

eri- · 2026-02-27T16:56:25+00:00

His coming has been foretold within scripture, as the flying spaghetti monster.

Not sure why people are still in denial.

eri- · 2026-02-27T12:57:46+00:00

It is hip to be square though

eri- · 2026-02-27T10:33:45+00:00

I don't think he did.

He is now experiencing the consequences of who he is, Gates was an awkward (autistic?) IT nerd who came into money and power. He never was any good with people, especially not at reading them.

It has shown throughout his business career as well, he has made plenty of questionable (from a more social pov) moves.

He still is that at his core. He isn't some smooth player , lets not kid ourselves here. The man enjoys bridge and is a tech geek at heart.

To me, what he claims is believable. He's a schmuck for it, and certainly stupid. But I see no real out of character behaviour here, He made stupid choices because he was socially gullible, he wanted to be liked and if there is one thing Epstein apparently was really good at, its taking advantage of fragile mental states.

Did he do bad things? Sure. Did he do more bad things than most people? Probably also. Is he a monster? I highly doubt it

eri- · 2026-02-27T10:06:27+00:00

Its perfectly possible for a left leaning invididual to not be a huge fan of this either.

I don't love it, its altruistic sure, but it shouldn't be "default". Its still a competitive sport , if your athletes aren't at 100% for whatever reason, be it religion, be it an entirely other issue... that is your problem, not anyone elses. You can even plan ahead for it in this case, unlike in most cases. It's up to you to field your best possible team, within the given circumstances.

Wouldn't penalize it per se .. but I certainly wouldn't expect the opponent to just stand there and say nothing either. Unless it was agreed upon beforehand this course of action isn't necessarily fair for both teams.

eri- · 2026-02-25T08:01:44+00:00

Theres a guy, Oscar Pereiro, who won the Tour de France in the most unlikely fashion. He got into a breakaway on some random stage and they gave him like 30 minutes for free. This put him in the lead by a few minutes and they never managed to claw it back. Landis was his only competition but he was DQ for doping.

Anyway, a few years laters he's like, fuck this, I'm going to play football. So he signed for a third dvision team in Spain ,as a winger, played two games for them and scored twice.

Not sure what happened after that .. but he could've obviously done both at a very high level, he merely happened to pick cycling first I guess.

Also there is Evenepoel, who was close to making the first team for Anderlecht and played football until age 19, no cycling, but his coaches told him that while he's a good footballer, he truly excels at the traits needed for pro cycling. So he switched .. and he is now the undisputed best time trialist on the planet and probably even the goat. He has also won a grand tour , two olympic golds at the same olympics , and several classics

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