Nascar - Pocono, Nashville, Atlanta

[ccrobinson]

Nashville

DW: "He was a bad kid but a good man". Whatever, DW.

That's a quote from my recap of the Las Vegas Cup race in 2008. It was an inexplicable statement then and it's even more inexplicable now. By now, you've seen Kyle Busch destroy the Gibson Les Paul guitar he won at Nashville Speedway, which, btw, is in Lebanon and isn't exactly Nashville, sort of like how Chicagoland Speedway is in Joliet, which isn't exactly Chicago. Regardless, it was a stupid thing to do.

“I've got a lot of respect for Sam Bass and those people at Gibson that make those beautiful trophies,” said three-time Nashville winner Carl Edwards. “You definitely will not see me smashing one of them.”

Brad Keselowski, either. So thrilled to earn one of the guitars last June, he carried it all over the garage during post-race inspection and then fell asleep cradling it during the plane ride home. His JR Motorsports team has the photos to prove it.

Kyle Busch is like the kid in school who does stupid things to impress people and try to fit in, but he doesn't realize that everybody else is only humoring him and actually thinks he's a moron. If he wants to destroy his trophy, it doesn't matter to me. I wouldn't care if he melted all of his trophies down to a puddle of goo. It wouldn't make him any less of a fool than he already is.

To quote one of the great movies of all time:

Look, mister, there's... two kinds of dumb, uh... guy that gets naked and runs out in the snow and barks at the moon, and, uh, guy who does the same thing in my living room. First one don't matter, the second one you're kinda forced to deal with.

I don't have to deal with Kyle, but he's still the guy that's getting naked, running out in the snow and barking at the moon.


Pocono
Smoke wins and it's great and wonderful and we're so happy for him. Besides the sarcasm, I do give him a ton of credit for winning. What he's done with his team is very impressive.

Another great story is how TNT is back doing 6 races again this year. Not only does TNT do better than both Fox and ESPN, they call to mind the heyday of ESPN race broadcasts in the 90s.

Kyle and Wally, we haven't seen/heard racing analysts this good since Ned and Benny.


Atlanta
Atlanta? Why am I mentioning Atlanta?

Because I'm going there for the Labor Day weekend race. And my son is getting the tickets to the race for his birthday in a few weeks. I can hardly wait to give them to him. :thumbs:

 

[ccrobinson]

Go watch this clip and come back. Go ahead. I'll wait.

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Dr. Wadler tears apart Nascar's obviously ridiculous drug policy and instead of delving further into that, Massaro buries the lead and wants to go back to talking about how meth can affect a driver's performance. Wrong story, Mike. The story is how Nascar thinks it can get away with this sort of nonsense when you have an expert in the field, somebody who's a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency, basically saying it's a ridiculous policy.

"Well, let me say, in general, professional sports drug testing in the United States is not as strong as the rest of the world and NASCAR, is woefully behind them! But not having a list of banned susbtances makes their whole program a non-starter."

So, Nascar's drug policy is a disgrace, which is hardly surprising. I don't believe for one second that Nascar can prove Mayfield took meth and I hope Jeremy crushes them.