"Time gaps cause major headaches in Missouri"

why wouldn't a team with the leader's jersey, who missed the break stage 2 tour of MO http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/sep07/missouri07/?id=results/missouri072 chase? i'll tell you why. DESPAIR. there's sort of a historic thing in the making . . they might say years of decades from now something not dissimilar to "when we first started bringing major racing to the continental US there was a big disparity between the top and bottom teams invited . .you had teams like Tecos from MEX not willing to hang it out there and bring back a break, even teams like Toyota, even Tinkoff in the tour of Georgia. Why? because teams heavy handed like Discovery, with a disproportionate amount of horse power, over the course of a week would just sit back and watch as each successfully dismantled itself as they sent a new GC threat into position to win it all again the next day. .. " or something?? the racing is too lop sided. there needs to be enough big teams to keep everyone accountable. Like Tour of CA, perhaps. i bet the posture of the continental teams would be WAY different if the Disco jersey wasn't in the peleton. instead there is that of despair, i.e. a 16mph peleton rolling through the townships of MO, clogging the infrastructure of road and rail way, as car are lined up waiting for a race enclosure spread out by half an hour from front to back creeps through their municipalities.. . there a problems in this nation, an a lot of the public thinks one of those problems is riding a bicycling on the roads they drive on. America, we have a long way to go in order to "get there" ..