January 19, 2005
Still Life With Huffy
Well, seeing as how the Discovery Channel team has already made their formal team presentation in Silver Spring, MD and are currently grinding out pre-season miles in Solvang, CA, and that jerky bastard Lance Armstrong still hasn't called me about my position on the roster then I guess it's time for plan B: sayonara Pro Tour-bound Discovery Channel, hello D3 WKTV Channel. That's right, I'll be kitted out in 2005 for Utica, NY's very own SoLow budget NBC affiliate. (Ah, the stories I could tell about the unintentionally comic local newscasts where each of the talking heads (anchor, field reporter, weather, sports) shared an identical first name. Cue cheesy commercial voiceover, "All of central New York's news, sports, and weather brought to you live by Bill, Bill, Bill, and Bill!"). I'm sure for most of you this revelation is as shocking as Igor Astarloa's downgrade to the backwaters of Barloworld-Valsir, but above all, like Igor, I'm a survivor. Therefore, no exotic, tropical spring camps for me, just the Saturday P-ride and oodles of miles sucking down fumes behind my wife's Aprilia scooter. USPRO week, here I come...
Since the team budget is extremely tight, we couldn't afford a fancy photo shoot for our press release. Instead, we got my Dad to donate his talents for an artistic rendition of the 2005 WKTV Channel kit.
(Thanks, Dad, for the artwork!)
