CALLER 1: Congratulations, Josh (Koehn), on your rhetorical skills! You have successfully equated (Floyd) Landis with the entire sport of cycling and substituted your personal prejudice for evaluation of athleticism and sport. Although football seems to me to involve a lot of standing around, butt-slapping, and simultaneous promotion of violence and machismo, I can appreciate the strategy and athleticism that goes into it. That you can't see the same in cycling shows your limits, not the sport's.
GREEN PHONE: Dear CYCLING IS A SPORT, While Josh Koehn can be a know-it-all -- trust Green Phone, we work with him -- it seems that you might have misunderstood his point. He didn't deny cycling was a sport. He was suggesting it is a sport that was made popular among most Americans through one man's victory over cancer. He also noted that cycling has a tainted history with drugs that goes well beyond Landis.
As for comparing cycling with football, yes, they're both sports where athletes wear tight uniforms. But cycling has spawned a much more disturbing trend than butt-slapping. That's right, we're talking about the overweight middle-aged men who walk into Jamba Juice wearing spandex. Now that exceeds GP's limits.
Go Sharks
CALLER 2: I am a huge San Jose Sharks fan. Every year when the season ends I go through withdrawals waiting for the next season to start. After the first of July, I constantly watch the free agent market. I have been waiting to see Mark Smith resign with the Sharks, but it seems as if he disappeared. He is surely too young to be retired. Do you know what happened? Thank you, Go SHARKS!
p.s. Could you email me the results? I don't always get to see The Dispatch everyday.
GREEN PHONE: No need to go into withdrawals and get all Britney Spears on us.
Unfortunately, the fan-favorite Smith will not be back with the Sharks this year. Already loaded with talented forwards, Smith was made expendable after the team signed Jeremy Roenick. The San Jose Mercury News reported that Smith is trying to latch on with the New York Rangers.
And no, we cannot email you the results after each game. Our publisher would put GP on ice if it started giving you the best sports section in town for free.
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