Digger has a family now?

Ok, admittedly, I did not watch every minute of the race, was busy running around in the kitchen for a portion of it and then went to bed early.

Can anyone help me clear up what I thought I saw?? Did Fox actually show multiple rodents coming out of the hole? As in a Digger family? Great, more cartoon rodents to hate.

Kevin Harvick Needs Web Developers...

Haha, was looking around an the KHI site has a big old "Coming Soon" on it. That's never what you wanna show on your corporate site!

Come on Kevin, hire me, I will work for ya!

Speaking of Harvick, saw on Captain Thunder site that Harvick is going to fun Ricky Carmichael out of his own pocket for the Atlanta truck race. Cool! I think Ricky Carmichael could be a damn good driver. Dude just has natural ability and he certainly knows how to win. After all, he is the GOAT!!

Kenseth wins...Again

I think Matt's new Crew Chief, Drew Blickensderfer, has brought some life to a team that seemed to have lost it a year or so before Robbie left. I think it is cool to see a Wisconsin boy do good. Good job, Matt! Was happy he held off Gordon, haha.

The race itself was pretty uneventful, read boring... Not a huge fan of that track (I don't know what they call it these days), too wide, too long, too flat. Yeah, it gives you lots of options for lines to run, but, that also means you can get all stretched out. The biggest action seems to be the battles of high-line versus low-line and seeing who gets the better run off a corner or who can slide job who.

Bummer that Harvick's streak of running at the end of every race ended at 81(?). Hendrick engines had some issues with Martin and Junior having valve issues.

I have to admit, I watched the end of the race from bed and was simply wiped out from not getting a good nights sleep the night before and bottling and brewing beer during the day. As much as I could pay attention to the race, I don't recall them mentioning Jeremey Mayfield much. Yeah, I know he was a couple laps down... He's got no big sponsorship that greases FOX's greedy palm, so not much mention of him. Was happy to see that with the late race attrition that he was able to move up 5 spots. I saw he was back in 40th spot and eventually finished at 35th. Now, I am no big Mayfield fan, but the way he is trying to make a go of it with all the money coming out of his pocket, not paying himself a salary, and seemingly fielding his crew with misfits who will work for little or nothing. I say misfit only as a dig against one of his crew members who failed a drug test. haha. That is not a blanket statement covering his entire team. I really hope he can get into the top 35 and stay there, comfortably, all year. Riggs, racing for Tommy Baldwin is another I would like to see do well. As for some of the others, like Nemecheck, Gilliland, and Allmendinger, I could care less. Nemecheck and Gilliland I really can't stand and Allmendinger rubs me wrong and comes off, to me, as an arrogant punk... Any one of them can finish 41, 42, and 43 every week for all I care.

On to Vegas. I actually got to do a couple laps around that track in a rental car when I attended the VMWorld party in 2008 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. That was fun! Andretti school instructors took us around the track in all kinds of decent cars with top speeds of about 100. Not like a real Richard Petty experience or anything, but still very cool. Especially when yer all hammered!! haha.

I still can't stand that effen Digger rodent that FOX insists on showing! Horrifying, that is all I can say! I wanna get an anti Digger website, haha, any ideas??

Jayski's® NASCAR Silly Season Site - Earnhardt Tribute

Remembering The Man! The Jayski site does it well, go check it out...
Jayski's® NASCAR Silly Season Site - Earnhardt Tribute

Best of Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Junior must be a walkin, talkin poop machine!! Most of these were taken by reading stuff on CaptainThunder.com with attributes to NASCAR.com.

"If you look down this pit road, my sign is pink and every other sign is pink so it's hard to see," he summized. "They're all about the same color."

"We had a pit stop where I was told the right-front tire was only an inch over the line," Earnhardt said. "I was held a lap for that and I don't feel like that was a fair trade. Maybe it's time to re-evaluate that rule."

"I got ran into and sent below the line. What the hell? I don't want to go down there, I didn't aim to go down there, and I got sent down there. What the hell am I supposed to do?" he quipped. "Then what am I supposed to do? Stay down there? No. I got to get back up on the race track.

"If he wasn't so damn reckless, we would have never had that problem, that would never happen. As far as I am concerned, it is all his responsibility."

"If he wants to come by the bus after the race and get his ass whopped," Earnhardt said. "I'll do it."

This is my personal favorite here...

"Matt won. Good deal. Congratulations. He always says that he wants me to tutor him on these plate tracks. He finally got his damn trophy and can give me some damn pointers."

How true!

Were it any other driver, the flip-flopping crew at FOX would not have backed off their original criticism. Instead, they kowtow to Junior and fear losing millions of viewers next week. Here's a hint, FOX... Grow a set of balls and call a spade a spade!!

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Life in the Turn Lane: No excuse for what Dale Jr. did

Like him or not, today, Mr. David Poole is spot-on! Normally, I don't always agree with David, in fact, I would say 75% of the time I do not. However, today, as my comment on his blog reiterates, agreed, 100%... It's all on him (Junior).

Life in the Turn Lane: No excuse for what Dale Jr. did

Matt Kenseth Wins 2009 Daytona 500

Being a lifelong Wisconsinite, I always have a soft spot for a driver from the Badger state. I really don't care for Jack Roush or his teams and am definitely NOT a Ford fan. My guy is Happy Harvick, who happened to finish second. I can live with that, but would have liked to see the race run the distance, I hate rain shortened events.

As I was watching the race, I was getting the email alerts that people were posting comments on this site. They were commenting on my digger comments from last year. I am not going to go into that rant again, look in this blog and you will find it... Suffice it to say, I wish the rodent were real and would become roadkill! Kinda cool people found the blog a year later. Inspired me to create this post, nobody ever comes here.

What do you think of the Junior/Vickers mishap? I'd post my thoughts about that, but I would piss off far fewer people if I posted a comic of the prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban. Horse shit move by a desperate driver.

Felt bad for Jeremy Mayfield. Not really a fan of his, but like underdogs and, his and Tommy Baldwin's story, is one that I will keep track of all year. Remember that old show on FX channel, I think it was?? NASCAR Drivers 360? I liked that show and enjoyed watching the Mayfield's on that show. I heard there will be a similar show with NASCAR wives.

Good race, too short...