The one thing Carl does not understand is the importance, over the season, of making friends or at least creating doubt in his potential enemies. Has he ever won one a plate track??
― felicity, Monday, 7 April 2008 19:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, he's certainly passed the can-run-up-front test, but that's not the same as friend-making. Maybe he's betting he can win without it. He seems friendly enough with mellower and more pliable Rowdy, who does pretty well himself.
Oh yeah, Kenseth's the most plausible-denial passive-aggressive mf in Cup
I thought he was just kinda squirrely-inscrutable, but I've never really paid too much attention. I can see it.
― gabbneb, Monday, 7 April 2008 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh he's hysterical on radio.
Matt to Spotter: Am I clear? Matt's Spotter: I can't see anything. Matt: Ok, I'll let you know if I see anything you need to know about.
― felicity, Monday, 7 April 2008 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― gabbneb, Monday, 7 April 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, DISH commercial is pretty true to life.
Kenseth really gets inside Carl's head, telling him on team radio that he should let him by, stay out for a lead lap, etc. and then when Carl expects reciprocation he won't.
― felicity, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
well that doesn't sound very nice. Matt seems so mild.
I haven't seen or don't remember the DISH commercial
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 00:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I know. He seems so bland yet he can take it to the point where he makes people lose it.
let's see if this works.
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― felicity, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 00:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Nope.
Jeff Gordon shoves Matt Kenseth
― felicity, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Kenseth Hulk baits Carl Edwards
― felicity, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 00:46 (fifteen years ago) link
seen those. gordon is still funny in his spaceballs helmet. and this is priceless
he aint a fag dude, he's like tiger woods, just something different about him
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 02:30 (fifteen years ago) link
f word not cool
― felicity, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 02:31 (fifteen years ago) link
By the way, there's been plenty of times earlier in his career where he did take off his helmet and went at it, so seriously, shut up.
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 02:35 (fifteen years ago) link
http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news;_ylt=Au8tHpdgKSqvBF2Uez4GERXov7YF?slug=jb-mailbag040908&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
― gabbneb, Thursday, 10 April 2008 12:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Link too long; didn't c + p.
― felicity, Thursday, 10 April 2008 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
a special link for u
― gabbneb, Thursday, 10 April 2008 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Not busting your chops, but what are you pointing at? (I do agree with the guy who said Texas last week was too long didn't watch.)
Hope phoenix will be better. I am going.
Carl Edwards is such a cipher. Video simulators have more personality. If he wins Cup I may go off it for a while.
― felicity, Thursday, 10 April 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Not busting your chops, but what are you pointing at?
the CoT's role in boringness-production, as originally argued in the article linked at the top of the link. perhaps that, rather than Kyle Busch or Kelly Clarkson, accounts for the falloff in viewership.
Phx shd be fun.
― gabbneb, Thursday, 10 April 2008 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Naw, only old school crusties like the twisted sister. CoT is much more interesting racing.
It's the boring tracks like Texas and Poconos that turn people off. Heritage Southern fans hate Poconos because it cost them the Darlington 500 and its too tedious to attract new race fans.
Adding a second Vegas race was a good move. Poconos has 2 races too many. Who wants to watch it rain on 42 cars parked around a 3 mile triangle? Twisted sister car parked for rain delay is still a parked car.
At least it won't rain in Phoenix.
― felicity, Thursday, 10 April 2008 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I think the contention would be that the viewing audience is significantly comprised of old school crusties
I still might go get rained on at Pocono
― gabbneb, Thursday, 10 April 2008 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link
What contention. The reason NASCAR has been moving the schedule around and pushing the Northeastern races has been to enlarge the audience.
Poconos would be a race very much in character for you.
I have $5 big ones riding on Biff at Vegas to win Sprint Cup. Biffle was going off at 35-1, absurdly short.
The lack of Hendrick's dominance this has been the biggest surprise of the year to me.
― felicity, Thursday, 10 April 2008 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
What contention
mine that tv viewership is down as of last year in part due to the CoT
how so?
― gabbneb, Thursday, 10 April 2008 23:25 (fifteen years ago) link
It just is.
― felicity, Thursday, 10 April 2008 23:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, there must be some reason.
― gabbneb, Thursday, 10 April 2008 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
I just can't believe you would choose Poconos over Richmond as your first race.
― felicity, Thursday, 10 April 2008 23:36 (fifteen years ago) link
well, I may very well not, but it doesn't look like Richmond I will be an option for me this year, and I can go to Pocono for 1/3 the cost in time+money
― gabbneb, Thursday, 10 April 2008 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Just don't blame me if you hate NASCAR after you do.
― felicity, Thursday, 10 April 2008 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Unexpected NASCAR indie rock moment: tailgaters near us in the Phoenix Raceway parking lot blasting Amsterdam by Peter, Bjorn & John.
Rumor is that Tony Stewart and Christy Wallace are an item. Supposedly Ashley Judd is here.
― felicity, Saturday, 12 April 2008 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Rumor is that Tony Stewart and Christy Wallace are an item
aw. so Tara Roqu3more is off again?
― gabbneb, Saturday, 12 April 2008 21:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah and J.J.Yeley's sister, who works with my brother. Seems Tony is quite the ladies' man.
― felicity, Monday, 14 April 2008 02:39 (fifteen years ago) link
oh to be short, chubby and rich
― milo z, Monday, 14 April 2008 02:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Great race. First win for Hendrick. Gordon continues to have bad cars. Chad Knaus's gamble on fuel strategy paid off. The 48 had no gas left after the burnout, so the car had to be pushed into victory lane by a tow truck.
After the race, Truex was badmouthing DEI Engines to his crew over the radio:
MTJ: The 8 should have won. Crew: Yeah. MTJ: Did the 31 make it? [on gas, referring to another Chevy team] Crew: Yeah. MTJ: [Referring to DEI Engines] They don't run and they run out of gas. Crew: MTJ: Are we on radio? Scanner: (turns off)
Ganassi and Petty Racing are in death spirals. They don't qualify, they lose sponsors (General Mills just defected to Childress), so they can't build the good engines, they don't get the Glengarry leads . . . etc.
So unfair that because Carl Edwards' crew chief was caught cheating with the oil tank cover Edwards now gets an even better crew chief, Robbie Reiser during the suspension. Bleah.
― felicity, Monday, 14 April 2008 02:52 (fifteen years ago) link
http://hickorymotorspeedway.com/2007/results07_photos/6_2LMWin.jpg
Chrissy Wallace isn't that chubby, milo.
― felicity, Monday, 14 April 2008 03:02 (fifteen years ago) link
haw!
Chad is a mathlete now. Carl did pretty well on a shorter track, huh? getting Robbie as crew chief sounds like the Chicago Way. my parents were not mollified by the duck car when the baseball game was rudely preempted, tho. :(
i am hoping the Ganassi and Petty sputtering results in the revival of Tony Raines
― gabbneb, Monday, 14 April 2008 14:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Chad Knaus has always been very smart.
― felicity, Monday, 14 April 2008 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Fastenal... except the bumper, lol
― gabbneb, Sunday, 20 April 2008 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
amazing race. talladega sure looks purty.
― gabbneb, Sunday, 27 April 2008 22:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Best Race of '08
― gabbneb, Monday, 28 April 2008 13:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Talledega's always a blast.
― Bill Magill, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
burnouts are never, ever, not good.
-- haitch, Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:42 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Link
Inaugural Pennzoil Burnout Competition this Saturday, 6:15 p.m. ET before the Sprint Showdown
― felicity, Friday, 16 May 2008 00:54 (fifteen years ago) link
"in Christ's name, Amen, Shalom," huh
only now I find out one of my best friends in college got to ride in the pace car at Richmond?
― gabbneb, Sunday, 1 June 2008 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Ayo!
Dale Jr. on What Really Matters:
"I knew I was gonna get a good deal [from Hendrick Motor Sports]. It wasn't really about trying to maximize that and push and push to get that number up as high as I can get it.
In the middle of the year, is that really gonna matter? You know when you're in the guts of the season and you're racing, what really matters?
What really matters is when you walk up to your car and you go, the black side skirts are ugly."
― felicity, Sunday, 1 June 2008 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.forbesautos.com/advice/toptens/cars-of-nascar-drivers-2008-story.html?partner=ybuzz
― gabbneb, Monday, 2 June 2008 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Cute! Kasey has a Viper and OMG I love Kyle Petty's Charger.
We're going to Sonoma.
― felicity, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Casey Mears owns this and Forbes shows his '61 Impala and a new Tahoe? Hi, advertisers! What a boring list. Ryan Newman's the only one half trying.
― Kerm, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Welcome back to NASCAR!
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― felicity, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link
i bid a gimlet farewell to 'digger' and his marketing empire and eagerly anticipate the return of wally's world
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 01:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I have won $240 on the Kyleeeeeeeeeeeee Dude 茄蕃 this season. I used my winnings to buy a new camera.
― felicity, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 01:16 (fifteen years ago) link
http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news?slug=ap-nascar-harassmentlawsuit&prov=ap&type=lgns
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
It's bad publicity and it's a shame but Poston's going to do the right thing.
Read any class action complaint and you'll see the same or worse happening at places from IBM to Merril Lynch.
― felicity, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
JIMMY JOHNSON
this is what i say whenever nascar comes up
whenever i catch the tail end of a race on tv i always pull for him & he does not often disappoint
― deeznuts, Tuesday, 10 June 2008 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link