sad

i believe this year's tour de france is cursed.
first i was nearly devastated to find out via text message (while in maine, shopping for yummy lobsters) that jan and basso were yoinked from the tour less than 24 hrs before scheduled to start. did they test positive? no. have they shown communication or other direct evidence with the doc who has all the drugs? no. but jan's coach did. that may or may not mean that he did. but hell, can't he ride and then take the title away if proven positive like they did for roberto heras in last year's vuelta a espana?? maybe jan did take the easy way out to finish out his career on top. maybe basso did (that "alien" comment from the giro is starting to make sense now...). but why does barry bonds still get to play baseball and jan can't ride in this tour??? argh!!
and since then valverde crashed out. leipheimer sucked horribly. julich crashed out. floyd's handlebars broke today. there's almost no one left in the tour and none of it is making sense. now i'm not blaming lance for the curse (although i'm not eliminating him as the cause either), b/c maybe he saw it coming and got out while he still could. i don't know and maybe this makes me a conspiratory theorist, but i firmly believe that something is up. afterall, who is john galt?