I dislike these mid-winter holidays as they serve no purpose but to get most government workers a day off from work with pay. No problem with that, but place the day in mid April when the weather should be milder. We've already had New Year's Day, MLK Day, and now this; all in the dead of winter when little can be done outdoors. Yes, put it in spring and rename it to Ken Day, or K-Day for short.
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Saw my first robin in our yard today; did I beat you this year, Alice? Also saw several high-flying raptors heading northeast. A chickadee posed for a photo, but he wasn't close enough to get a decent shot.
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NASCAR ran its premier event at Daytona yesterday, and it marks the first time since it was televised that I did not watch at least some of it, however I did listen to portions on the radio. I suppose Dale Earnhardt Jr. has made a living off of his dad's name and reputation for long enough, and decided to build his own by putting several cars into the wall because they wouldn't get out of his way. Atta boy, Junior! That Chevy isn't built Ford tough! Will the sanctioning body penalize Junior? It is doubtful they will do much to their biggest draw. Why is he—a good but not great race car driver—the sport's biggest draw? Because he is his daddy's boy, and no other reason. Hid dad was a down-and-dirty hero to the Budweiser drinking, Chevrolet driving, and Wrangler wearing rednecks who sport the "I'm with stupid" tee shirts. He took their pent up road rage and set it free each weekend, putting good cars and drivers in harms way by bumping them into a concrete wall at 170 mph, and these weekend warrior wannabe's applauded everytime he downed a cursed opponent. His final act was to kill himself while trying to block a string of fast moving race cars so his little Junior or his buddy could win the "Great American Race" He was bumped in the heat of battle, his car slid up the track and into the same wall he had intentionally caused others to hit, and he was instantly dead of a broken neck, brain hemmoraging, and other terminal misdemeanors. I don't miss him one iota.
Writing an publishing something like this won't make me popular in the neck of the woods where the good ol' boys live.
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What will Obama do about Pakistan? Big trouble is brewing in that semi-civilized country that has nuclear weapons at its disposal.
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3 comments:
Junior is by far the biggest fan fave because of his dad for sure. No other reason at all. Nascar is hardly the same since his death and was in trouble before that. At least he had the balls to drive the damm car like a race car and there is not much of that these days as corporate America has really hurt the sport. In my opinion the economic problems will ultimately be good for Nascar as it will force them to get closer to their roots as money becomes harder to get. I say go to your local track and see some real racing.
NASCAR's arbitrary rule changes have bothered me for years, and I will always believe they kept Mark Martin from winning the Cup at least once, maybe twice. NASCAR has promoted the so called bad boys and their exploits. They have created their own image and I hope it eventually will help pull them down.
I don't think Toyota should have been allowed into the cup series, but they had a lot of money to spend on the France family, and I can live with it. The clincher that got me was the new "cars". They have taken the manufacturers out of racing. Those cars are like the subdivision I live in; when you've seen one house; you've seen them all. Innovation is in the hands of the France family, whereas it used to be with the car makers, drivers, and mechanics, the ones with the most to lose.
My local track is 20 mi away: it is called Bristol. :-)
Yeah, Saturday night racing on a dirt track is real racing; turn a few laps, get out and have a friendly discussion with fists and tire irons, get back in the car and turn some more laps. But even that has changed with sanctioned tracks. I like the old "run what you brung" kind of racing. You didn't know who won 'til the dust settled.
Big money has ruined Nascar for the average fan. most of the races are boring and there is not any racing. They need to shorten races, limit the amount of teams an owner can have in the series among other things to fix the mess.
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