“Nothing lasts forever but the Earth and Sky…” – Mark Cavendish, probably
Just shy of our 19th birthday, the Podium Cafe will cease publication. I had recently let SBNation know about my own decision to stop as editor, as I am not keeping up with my duties of late, and we don’t have a successor waiting in the wings. What will happen is that the site will still be here, available to read, but commenting and posting will be closed.
With one exception: I will make sure there is a post up announcing the FDS Directeur Sportif for 2025. We will operate the World’s Best Fantasy Cycling Game for next season. After that… we will see. Keep the FSA DS Website bookmarked.
Some of you may be saddened by the news, and part of me feels the same, but another part, not at all. The Podium Cafe far exceeded whatever vision I had for it starting out, and its impact on my life will be permanent. I didn’t plan it to go on forever, and to the extent that it’s largely driven by me and Jens these days, I think I speak for both of us in saying that we are OK with turning over the reins to a new wave of media. Also the forever thing… I have seen a lot of aging music acts lately (I know), and I am happy that some them can’t seem to let go. Like Paul Simon (aw!), Jackson Browne (OK!), Simple Minds (damn lads!) and the Hoodoo Gurus (HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!). But plenty of others I couldn’t pull the trigger (sorry Joanie Mitchell) and others I kinda regret (really sorry, Declan M). It’s OK to be done creating, or at least asking people to pay for your work. There you go; turn the page.
I will spend this month celebrating the Cafe with a somewhat-still-undetermined set of posts whose aim is to help us go out in style. I invite you to contribute throughout, via comments or even fanposts, which will be liberally promoted to the front page. Actually, no, I implore you! And you know when I implore… it’s business time.
A Brief History of the Podium Cafe
The Cafe went live January 30, 2006, but like most mammalian births, its existence goes back a bit before its public emergence. Picture, if you will, the year 2000, a time when Lance Armstrong was restoring, if not completely revolutionizing, Americans’ relationship to Cycling (again, I know). Picture, also, the state of…
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