The winner of the Tour de France is the rider who has the fastest time after all 21 stages. Every stage is timed from start to finish, and every second counts toward the race's General Classification (GC).

“Easy to hit wall, wall does not hit back, but can still break hand.” Mr. Miyagi.

I remember Joe Torre telling Paul O’Neil, “you can do whatever you want to get out your frustrations but don’t hurt yourself or anyone else.”

"snakes into it too" JAKE WTF LMAO

"Waterpark" got me.

Back in 2000 Kevin Tapani broke his left wrist getting hit by a line drive and pitched with a broken wrist for a couple of months. This was in the NL, so he also had to hit

The Sesame Street PSA made me bizarrely happy!

Kissing spouses is actually fine in the Tour de France, just not your own.

The promise ring - Jersey Shore is the song

that song is jersey shore by the promise ring, a band from my hometown of milwaukee

Bull Durham: Which hand did you hit me with?

You guys should check out Peanut Butter the dog that played Ken Griffey SNES baseball at Summer Games Done Quick, a video game speedrunning charity event. What a sentence.

Really wasn't expecting the Promise Ring reference off the rip there.

In time trials, you have to race on your own and have no teammates to help you. So, your finishing time on a time trial is entirely dependent upon your own strength. These time differences are factored into the General Classification, which is the time it took you to finish the entire race.

love the Promise Ring

I usually watch breakdowns first time watching this. Jake impressed me

Annnnnd immediately paragraph forms of answers. Great job, folks!

In individual time trial stages, every rider is fighting for every second. Time trial is rider against the clock, so it is pure... no team tactics. Bernard was fined because he isn't allowed to stuff up the course while having fun, there are racers possibly right behind him. He knew, however, that he had a big enough time gap, to the next rider behind, that he could stop for 5 seconds and do his thing and not clog up the roadway for the next guy.

Promise Ring- Jersey Shore. How The hell did that stick in my head?

Tour de France has 22 teams and 176 riders. Most teams are usually working for just 1 guy to either win a stage (sprint teams) or to have the lowest time over all stages (general classification teams). Ie. they ride in the wind ahead of their main guy to save his energy. For the time trial you go solo and since Julien Bernard can't help his teammate his time doesn't matter. Also the main guy on his team is Mads Pederson who crashed and dropped out of the race already.

This guy thinks a bathtub is a urinal, I'm sure he's a great party guest.

Promise Ring! This lit me up.. Up there with Tony rialy quoting the hold steady too much like 10years ago

missed out on the dodgers game on the 5th, not so much the game in it of itself, but the Hololive Merch that fans were waiting in line for some over 7 hours! Thats right, someone had a merch sale past 1:30 AM!!

Twins game got rained our so Bally North put on blitzball for us to watch at the bar, I loved explaining the rules to everybody haha it was awesome

Jake in his final form -Train Hobo

The winner of the Tour (the yellow jersey winner) is the person with the fastest time overall after all the stages. But since only one person can win the Tour and that competition can be boring, there are other prestigious things you can win besides the overall time. You can win an individual stage, or mountain or sprint classification jerseys. Some people are hired to be helpers ("domestiques") rather than trying to win races. So there are multiple objectives. Since the time trial stages don't really matter to everyone, some people don't need to try as hard on them as others, they just need to beat the time cutoff.

I do this every time I play Mario baseball

Transfering your negative energy into a wall, being humbled by the pain. Its therapy, my drywall would agree.

The Tour de France time trials are the only time in the race when it's an individual race against the clock. All other stages, the lead contenders are supported by their teams. The GC contenders are usually drafting their teammates or paced by their teammates until the moment when the GC contender decides to take charge and attack. During the time trial, they don't have that team support, so it allows them to go out on their own abilities and make up time or lose time against their competitors solely on their own merit on the day.

It's because in a normal stage everybody who finishes together gets the same time, so a time trial forces everybody to get different times for one stage and separate the field a bit, especially if the leaders are always finishing together.

fantastic rosey impersonation during employee of the week

I also need the Tour De France explained to me - but I don't have that much time!

Best editing on JM.

Jomboy never misses man

Oh my gods, the Cubs need to start teaching their pitchers not to punch walls, this happened with Carlos Zambrano too

I really like this format. It is really dumb and fun.

Time trial is a race or stage where the rider is solo on the track racing against the clock. It requires different equipment and strategy than a race that is in a group (peloton). The stage time counts toward overall (general classification) time. For riders that don’t win the general classification it is still a pretty big achievement to win a stage.

Simple answer for the time trial: the Time Trial affects every rider with their overall time, but the bigtime GC riders go hard to get a few seconds on their opponents. Remco Evenepoel won the Stage 7 TT and got a few seconds on Tadej (currently #1 in GC) and on Jonas (#2 in GC). They have to work on their own instead of racing in a bunch of people where it’s easy to follow/chase/attack etc.

Jake’s anchor vibe in the “milk was a bad choice” era over here

My wife finds us weird but it's okay, you guys rock

lmao the editing always on point

Reminds of when Jaden McDaniels punched a wall and missed last years playoffs

My senior year of high school a guy on my team got ejected from a game in a preseason basketball tournament. He went back to the locker room and punched a locker. He broke his hand and missed more than half the season 😂

the grass at Wrigley looks amazeballs

If Zack has a million friends, then I am one of them. If Zack has ten friends, then I am one of them. If Zack has only one friends then that is me. If Zack has no friends, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Zack , then I am against the world.

Did…Jimmy just quote The Promise Ring?? …Did we just become best friends?!?

as for Julien's TT, it's important to note that he was not finished the stage. The street party that was arranged while his stage was still underway, as well as other racers on the course. They are typically spaced apart by 3 minutes from the starting point, and given the wide range of abilities for TT there was a risk the riders behind him caught up and would have been blocked by the beautiful embrace. All that to say, I'm sure Julien and his team car was aware of the splits at that point on the course and would have avoided such a thing from happening. And...there's a paragraph. my bad.

I recently found out that watching these videos has gotten me to instinctively tap papers on a table in the few instances that I’m given them

Nice thread, Jim. The real star of the show right there

Stage directions were correct, good job, proud of you.

Aside from every second matters in the tour, there are special jerseys not just for the leader, but for the best climber and the points leader, but sprints are a big points event for guys that aren't anywhere near the lead or winning the climbing stages. The time trials are part of those sprints.

idea for a video, does the the umpires zone shrink or expand depending on situation? for example it feels like sometimes the zone on a 0-2 pitch is way smaller than a 2-0 pitch

The winner of the TDF is whoever finishes fastest after 21 stages. The time trial acts as a bit of a rest day but your time still counts to your overall time in the whole race

I think antivenom can be real bad for you if you don't actually have the corresponding venom present. So if he didn't bite the doctor twice as well, we can rule out his theory

In grand tour races like the Tour de France, only the leading riders for each team and a handful of time trial specialists care about their finishing time in the time trial. For all other riders who serve as “domestiques” to support their team leader during other stages, the time trial is treated as a rest day or procession, hence the dude’s carefree pace during this section of the time trial.

Grown men who can’t control their emotions is always funny to me

You should break down Joe Ryan seasoning his meatballs

this is by far one of the dumbest ways to injure yourself. I used to punch the ground to pump myself up while i played keeper in HS. however i would never actually punch the ground and more of just tap it, because even as a 15 year old i understood actually hitting the ground/wall with full force is a DUMB thing to do. and i even had keeper gloves on so the impact was even less

little does jimmy know that im from milwaukee. home of the promise ring. :)

For winning, the lowest time after all 21 stages wins. Time trials are different because riders are sent out individually and don't work in groups, whereas normal stage everyone goes together and the peleton forms.

Who isn't going to catch a Promise Ring reference?

Time trials in the Tour de France are individual races against the clock, where each cyclist rides alone over a set distance. They impact racers by determining their start positions and overall rankings. A good time trial performance can boost a racer's confidence and improve their standing in the race. Teams use the results to strategize and support their strongest riders. Overall, time trials are crucial for showcasing individual strength and speed, affecting the outcome of the entire Tour de France. - Totally not AI

I love this show lmaoooooo

Sean Quinn in the Tour De France is an American and He is the USA national champion so he gets a special Star and Stripes jersey that you guys would think looks really cool

“Here dad here’s you getting hit in the grundle!”

As a cubs fan, getting this news was a heartbreaker. Brewer had been struggling, but I knew he had it in him to be a strong part of the bullpen. Adding that to the fact that so many of our other pitchers are injured… It was a selfish move punching the wall. Obviously he didnt intend to break his hand, but when you get angry and start taking it out on objects there’s ALWAYS a chance of injury and everyone knows that. Hope to see him recover from this and be back better than before.

Does anyone not remember Julian Tavarez breaking his hand punching a wall and still went out and pitched the next game?

5:20 This reminds me of a story my parents tell me from around the time they got married. Early 90s, young couple with a one year old and a cat. Cats name was Bandit and he apparently was a little asshole that *could* be nice but was funny as could be. Once my dad was walking past and pet him, Bandit bit his hand, so my dad bit his paw, (not hard, just enough to confuse him) and the story is he never bit my dad again lol

***Individual Time Trials in the tour just adds to your overall time in the race like any other day. The only difference is that they suck and are boring as hell. You don't get the benefit of riding at the same time as your closest rivals, so some guys aren't good at it. They ride special bikes that are uncomfortable but go quite fast. I am an advocate for no time trials.

Time trial - riders set off a minute or 2 apart from each other, the fastest time wins the stage. The "favorites" have the opportunity to gain time on each other if they have a faster time, i.e. 10 seconds 20 seconds etc faster than their rival

Putting the Joez Homer in Zack you legend

This is the stupidest show ever, and I honestly can’t get enough. Thanks, fells.

There’s something about Jimmy’s delivery of “the fuckin…Zack Neto checked swing” that I was not prepared for.

Him stopping to kiss his wife was one of the best moments I've seen in the TdF. Usually when riders ride through their home town, the peleton allows them to cycle off ahead so they can pause to greet their families and friends. The time trial went through his town, and so unfortunately for him this was when he was in a race against the clock. So he took the sacrifice to himself to stop to kiss his wife and baby while out on the course. Ridiculous that he was fined for that.

Time trials are like special races against the clock. Instead of riders all racing each other, they take turns riding the course as fast as they can, one at a time. These races are important because they test how fast each rider is on their own. They can make a big difference in who wins the whole Tour de France! If a rider who is good at time trials does well, they can gain a lot of time on other riders and move up in the standings.

inception is a masterpiece much better than 100 imo 😂

Time trial counts towards the riders overall time, but if they're not trying to win the race (domestiques/helpers) they just need to stay within the elimination time (20% from the winner of that stage).

Whats in the jar behind jake. It looks like pickled onions lmao 😂

I wore 7 pairs of sunglasses to watch an eclipse a few years ago, is that sunglasses inception?

The Promise Ring rules

My kid broke his hand a while ago punching a chair while playing a video game? Had to drop out of his Precision Machining program. Ugh.

Time trial didn’t matter for him since he is a helper rider for someone who is a sprinter. As long as he finished, he did his job

Weekly dumb puts sportscenter to shame these days. Anybody remember when sportscenter used to be good and we watched every night??

The time trials affect the overall standings like any other stage as the overall standings just add up your time on each stage, however there is a separate award for whoever does best in the time trials.

Time Trial: Fastest times wins the day, but you have to do it alone. No help from your team crazy guy. Time is added to total time of all 21 days and fastest total time is the winner!

Sadly that wasn't the stupidest injury the Cubs have had.

Individual cumulative time is applied to overall standings. Best chance to take time on an inferior opponent.

A serious hand injury from a wall punch should void a contract; from a onfield fight, $200k; from a bar fight, $300k; from a home accident, $0 if you were playing with your kid, but $400k if you said “hey guys, watch this” before you injured yourself.

I miss the OG intro 😢

Usually riders can take advantage of drafting to avoid losing time to their competitors. In the time trial, there is nowhere to hide, and oftentimes as a result there are big time gains and losses to be made for the yellow jersey.

I've been a Cubbie fan for nearly forty years and it's sad that they've been so bad this year that their most memorable moment is going to be a player breaking his own hand on the dugout wall.

Time trial is the race of truth, against the clock. The time trail is just individually timed. It's a stage where riders can gain or lose time easily with no team tactics. Also the yellow jersey is for the best all around rider. They need to TT well.

Believe me, in the South it is absolutely a hearth 😭🔥

BRING THE INTRO BACKKKKKK WE MISS IT

I hate the statement, "it's the third most watched sporting event in the world" (I know Jimmy is just quoting) or any of those, because they're talking about a 21 DAY EVENT of nonstop coverage basically. Same with the World Cup. Yeah, of course it's the most watched event, people like soccer/football and it's a goddamn month long with almost four games a day. A real metric would be the point of maximum interest, or average views per minute or something like that. And not "engaged". The World Cup says that they "engaged" with 5 billion people during the Cup, which is utterly ridiculous. What, does walking by and seeing a television with a game on from twenty feet away count?

Colton Brewer is only 101.2 bWAR away from becoming the best pitcher to ever break a hand while punching something in a dugout. Randy Johnson broke his right hand when punching a bat rack as a minor leaguer after he got taken out of a game following a line drive that hit him in the pitching hand.

Is the weekly dumb still happened and just on a hiatus? Or did you guys drop the best weekly video series online?

Brewer is an awkward guy huh? His answers just aren't how a human would normally talk 😂🤷‍♂️

Jake looks like he hasn’t cut his hair since the Yankees last won a series.

I thought the knuckle was the worst pitch. In 10 years the "arm breaker" will be common. Wonder what the next after will be. 🤔