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2009 TDF Liggettisms

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auscyclefan94 said:
Cycling is a tough sport to commmentate. He's still a great commentator. 37 years... he musn't be that bad.

Bad? He's great! I love him and Sherwin. Only a matter of days before we get to hear: "These are the Heads of State in this years tour"...."Jens is a big diesel engine"......"I think that man has cracked Paul!"

But will we hear..."and Armstrong looks around at Contador and says; 'are you coming or not?"..and the answer, is not!"

Probably not;)
 
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Bagster said:
Bad? He's great! I love him and Sherwin. Only a matter of days before we get to hear: "These are the Heads of State in this years tour"...."Jens is a big diesel engine"......"I think that man has cracked Paul!"

But will we hear..."and Armstrong looks around at Contador and says; 'are you coming or not?"..and the answer, is not!"

Probably not;)

I was actually agreeing with you. People bag phil but he has been going for 37 years so he must be at least alright. i think he's great
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auscyclefan94 said:
I was actually agreeing with you. People bag phil but he has been going for 37 years so he must be at least alright. i think he's great
If you hear his coverage of the Tour more than twice, then you know exactly what story or anecdote he will tell 5 minutes before he starts it.

He doesn't know the names of most riders (unless they're from English-speaking countries), and he's obsessed with Armstrong, even when he's not even in the race. He is in complete doping denial, describing any riders caught as 'one of the few bad apples'.

He's crap. Time to retire.
 
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Honorable mention to Paul Sherwin... On Lance Drugstrong..

"Every now and again you see him putting his head down, thats to keep the front end of his body shaped like the head of a rocket".
 
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mickkk said:
Honorable mention to Paul Sherwin... On Lance Drugstrong..

"Every now and again you see him putting his head down, thats to keep the front end of his body shaped like the head of a rocket".

LMAO....I am waiting for Paul to pull out the "suitcase of courage"...a few more days, just a few more days....lol
 
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I love them both, they do commentary for hundreds of hours and Im always amazed at the new sayings they come up with as well as the oldies!
 
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Jackhammer's girlfriend here...has no one ever noticed the homo-erotic way Phil talks about the riders?

"he's got those those big legs pumping" (speaking from a girl's point of view...ooh la la) or "big Lance" or "the biggest man in cycling" or "big George Hincappie"

Sometimes he sounds more like the commentator for gay porn movies than for professional cycling.:eek:
 
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Phil and Paul make a great team. Paul always talking over the top of Phil, contradicting each other. It's great, it would be a pretty boring race without them. As for getting riders names wrong, you try remembering 180 riders. Most people would be lucky to recognise their own mother if she was on a bike with helmet sunnies etc travelling at you at 50kph. Mind you I think I'd recognise my mum at that speed, if she had her teeth in.
 
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jackhammer111 said:
Jackhammer's girlfriend here...has no one ever noticed the homo-erotic way Phil talks about the riders?

"he's got those those big legs pumping" (speaking from a girl's point of view...ooh la la) or "big Lance" or "the biggest man in cycling" or "big George Hincappie"

Sometimes he sounds more like the commentator for gay porn movies than for professional cycling.:eek:

What a crack up! Good to see the humour off to a good start!
 
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Everyone I know records the morning live feed so they can listen to Phil and Paul through the whole race and avoid the crap during the prime time broadcast. Verbal mistakes are better than the idiots OLN (Versus) has tried to use over the years to fill the empty spaces such as Al Trautwig.
 
auscyclefan94 said:
Cycling is a tough sport to commmentate. He's still a great commentator. 37 years... he musn't be that bad.

No Phil is like a silly grandfather who's allways there on the couch for a laughable comment or story, but not a good cycling commentator.

Davide Cassani, by contrast, is a great cycling commentator, even though he has always rubbed me the wrong way.
 
jackhammer111 said:
Jackhammer's girlfriend here...has no one ever noticed the homo-erotic way Phil talks about the riders?

"he's got those those big legs pumping" (speaking from a girl's point of view...ooh la la) or "big Lance" or "the biggest man in cycling" or "big George Hincappie"

Sometimes he sounds more like the commentator for gay porn movies than for professional cycling.:eek:

I cannot tell whether she is talking about Phil or Jack. It sounds like Jack.
 
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jackhammer111 said:
Jackhammer's girlfriend here...has no one ever noticed the homo-erotic way Phil talks about the riders?

"he's got those those big legs pumping" (speaking from a girl's point of view...ooh la la) or "big Lance" or "the biggest man in cycling" or "big George Hincappie"

Sometimes he sounds more like the commentator for gay porn movies than for professional cycling.:eek:
I think in general europeans are less apt to connect physical descriptions of humans with sex. The same goes with nudity. Nudity doesn't mean sexual.
 
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I'm so tired of the Versus Phil-Paul show. Mistakes, bad strategy calls, misidentify riders etc. Combine that with Versus 25 min of racing to 35 minutes of adverts is unacceptable. Versus knows that they have a captive audience, so they milk it all they can. Yes, I know there is Tivo, that's no excuse, if you've ever seen a France 2 broadcast, you'd understand what a ripoff the Versus show is.
 
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im just glad we have eurosport.. i cant tolerate either of them..

at least on eurosport yesterday we only had to cope with the concept that Jens Voigt was a stoned alien who had landed on earth and thought everything was beautiful.. (something to that effect)

(and 375 certaintly's)
 

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