RaidoSchleck

"Who?" I hear you ask.

Apparently OGL has only just realised the obvious terrible pun, the one we all discarded months ago, that the new team name could be RadioSchleck rather than RadioShack.

Andy! Where have you been?? Have you not been reading this blog properly? *shakes head in disappointment.*

Perhaps he's been spending his spare time with TinkerJil instead of stalking around on the internet... mind you, there's all those wasted hours, stuck in airports, or on team buses, you'd think he'd find time to keep  up to date.... oh all right, I know he doesn't actually read it! *waves cheerfully, though, just in case...*

Anyway, we all thought of RadioSchleck, aaaages ago: then we went to RaNT, which was good for a giggle for several weeks, then we got the whole business about the UCI stating the only two sponsor names are allowed. So it would only be RaN, which wasn't nearly as funny.

Somehow, though, Andy has missed out on RadioSchleck - which I suppose is a tribute to the modesty and general niceness of the Schleck brother, don't you think?

A couple of days ago, though, a new player popped up on Twitter: presumably taking the place of Ken Sommer (*pulls glum face - we liked Ken, he occasionally used to respond to our tweets, I bet this new Shack guy doesn't).  The name is Lee Applbaum (is it just me, or is there an "e" missing from that name?) who seems to be the Marketing Manager for the Shack. Oh, I beg his pardon, "Chief Marketing Officer".

So, this Lee Applbaum - who I assume is a fella - sent out a couple of tweets on the subject of the team name. Andy seems to have been completely oblivious to it, until these tweets,  which I find very sweet.

Here they are,  and I have put them in the right order for ease of reading:

Well, it shows he has a sense of humour, which is a good thing.

Andy responded:

Ah, isn't it nice to see that Luxenglish appearing again?  I was particularly amused by the use of the French idee rather than idea: by the hilarious mis-spelling of Radio as Raido, which does sound just ever so slightly like something you spray on unwanted fleas; and of course, the spelling of Schleck without the first "c". Oh, and I'm not even mentioning the missing apostrophe.

Ok, ok, he tweets in a hurry! Seriously, we don't mind, Andy, pet, we're just very happy to hear from you these days.

So there we have it, the new team name is RaidoShleck, please note correct pronunciation as per this press release that was issued by Trek earlier this week.