It's Yer Vuelta a Espana Rest Day Dos Roundup!

 Okay, we're more'n halfway through, Mikel Landa is still saving it for the last week so you can all just !@#$ off, and, rather predictably, Rogla is still--if not by much at the moment--in control.  So what've we learned, and what're we gonna?  This!

1. Richard Carapaz has left the race.  Wait, he was *in* it?

2. Roglic's DS must've been completely bull!@#$ when he posted that pic of himself balancing on a slanted railing today.  I can hear it now (and frankly, you can probably hear it all over Spain): "You crashed on the !@#$ing rest day doing *what*?!?!"

3. I stand by my position that long time trials deciding the overall victory in a Grand Tour is bull!@#$.  Leave that !@#$ for Cancellara and Ganna and let the Giro, Tour, and Vuelta be determined by the climbers.  Yap, all-rounder, yap.  Half these !@#$ers wouldn't *be* all-rounders if they didn't have to be on the juice just to cling on to the final podium!

4. Speaking of climbers, unless Mas and Lopez get a good 15 minutes on Roglic in the next coupla mountain stages, they're !@#$ed.  Then again, Rogla *does* have a way of toppling over--though I hope of course he doesn't!

5. Sepp Kuss.  He looked a little shaky to me the first few days, but now, it's clear he's got his mojo back. Movistar and Ineos, I *don't* think Roglic needs your help being pulled up the mountains any more!

6. It's very sweet seeing Aru attack in his last race--he hasn't looked this happy in years.  But his bitchin' "That's All Folks!" cartoon farewell shoes are even better.

7. Odd Christian Eiking.  No, you weren't seeing that one coming either, liar!

8. As long as we're eliminating those !@#$ty footy barriers that keep taking out the sprinters, can we put a moratorium on Giant Rolls of Barbed Wire Right By the Side of the Road?  I mean, the cows can stand 10 feet back from the course ffs!

9. Alejandro Valverde.  2022 Vuelta.  Who's with me? 

10. Fabio Jakobsen.  It was actually kinda wonderful seeing Fabio going all Cav on his teammates' !@#ses for losing him in the sprint the other day.  Now *that's* the obnoxious prima donna fast-men we all know and love back in action!

All right, on to another sprint stage tomorrow.  Rogla, *try* to stay upright--and if you do, *try* not to humiliate Mas and Lopez *too* badly on the final day!