Meanwhile, from the reminisce of the breakaway of six, Verbrugghe and Canada, who are out of the Tour, Salvatore Commesso and Pierrick Fedrigo emerging and holding of the field, they had 30 seconds with 10K to go, long sweeping descent, very dangerous, sleek conditions. The peleton presumably, able to go much more quickly, if the roads have been much more safe, but they weren’t. That’s like saying “if my aunt had wheels, she would be a car.”
Can't say that I've ever heard that version...
Goodness me! I didn't even know that Bob Roll was posting a journal. I presume he's writing it stream-of-consciousness style, but boy, it kinda comes out suspiciously like a Babelfish translation of the Ukrainian transcript of those indecipherable hand gestures of his, doesn't it? Love him dearly, but I agree, it just ain't the TdF unless Phil is calling it live. Actually, Paul's no slouch either, especially when one of the riders starts bonking or something and he goes off into one of his wild metaphorical riffs: "He's pumping those pistons he calls legs, but there's nothing left for him in the engine room!".
Have you seen that the Daily Peloton has been leading off their coverage this year with a different one of Phil's "found poems" excerpted from that book "Dancing on the Pedals: The Found Poetry of Phil Liggett"every day? (Just in case you hadn't heard of it, this is where some guy has selected snippets of Phil's actual past cycling coverage patter -"He's a cat amongst the pigeons today" - and put them into haiku & other modern-style poetic form on the page.) This was the one for Stage 14:
BEAST
Vicious
is the word.
Savage
is the climb.
(originally uttered during Stage 12, 2000)
If they ever do something like that for Bob, it'll probably have to be in illustrated form, something on the order of Dancing in His Gloves: The Hidden Linguistic Significance of the Eccentric Manual Gesticulations of Bob Roll maybe? LOL.