Speaking of commenters being clowns, the Twitter beef breaking out between the whining Belgian cycling old guard and the Grift King himself Benji Naesen and his merry band of sycophants who follow him because if he can make it so can they stands a good chance of being more entertaining than tomorrow's stage.And I have a VERY high bar for tv commentators (any sport. any language). There might be about 2 or 3 who do an excellent job unerringly out of 1,000 clowns.
It will be interesting to see who backs down because as far as I can see the problem is both of them have reason to believe they're in the right. Benji is right that the old guard pundits and commenters are a bunch of selfish gatekeeping dinosaurs with an obnoxiously smug and exclusionary attitude, and the old guard guys are right that Benji is a bandwagon-jumping hack who panders to a largely ignorant following and adds little or nothing of value to the discourse.