Garrett Duke

Well, the second race of the season has started out well for my fantasy team. Went with Carl Edwards in the A column as my starter and he just earned his first pole of the season. My A bench driver went with Roger's driver...Kurt Busch and he starts second. Perhaps Carl can hang on and get me my first win of the seasn. HA HA. Guess I'll have to wait on that one.

Well I apologize if I used this one already, couldn't remember if I did or not. Figured it's great enough song to be used twice if I had already used it and it'd be a shame if it didn't get used if I hadn't used it. Though I don't go skiing or rafting or any of that stuff on the water as AJ is doing in the video, I really wish we had the nice warm weather it looks they have in the video. Little taste of summer.

Well I'd rather have a good time than a bad time . Love this song and the video...of course, you can't go wrong with AJ. (It even has his wife, Denise, at the end in the car. At least it looks lik her.) Just saw a commercial last week, can't think what it was for, but they had this song on and they were doing the line dancing as well.

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Baseball (Just over a month a way until baseball season... GO CUBS!!!!!!!!!!!)

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I thought I'd awaken this thread with an old Sawyer Brown song...what a great band! Wish they were still around singing...

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Very well put Bo James! I would have to agree with everything you said...it would be a much more happy and peaceful world if everyone had that attitude - even myself. I can't recall that scene off hand right now, but I can envision it and just see Luke's expression and hear his voice. It's great. As I said, very well pout, Bo James.

With the 2011 NASCAR season underway, I have signed up for a NASCAR fantasy team for the second time in a row. Though this time it is with members from Jeff Gordon's official website fanforum and has more members that I had with my cousin's team which was only the three of us (though I was the winner of the team of three. Not so bad on my first try.) Though sadly, didn't fare too well on the first race of the season since all four of my starters were involved in accidents throughout the race. Well tonight I got to thinking that it would be neat to start a team of my own if I could find people interested in doing so. It is no big deal if I don't either, since I am a part of another team. Just thought I'd post here and see if anyone would be interested... It is on Yahoo and it is free to join and play. You don't recieve anything for winning, but a congradulations...it is all for FUN. For all that is somewhat interested, here are some of the rules or how it works: *Every week you chose eight drivers to be in your team that week (or if you don't change it the next week, it will stay with last week's picks.) * Four of the drivers are starters, the other four are bench drivers. The starter drivers you will get points for where they qualify at, for laps led, and where they finish the race at. Whereas the bench drivers will get you points for where they qualify at ... so for them it don't matter if they finish first or last or if the led a lap. *There are three groups of drivers. Group A (the more seasoned drivers, drivers that win more...) Group B (drivers that are good, but don't win as often) and Group C (the underdog drivers...the rookies and the drivers that you don't think of to win races.) *From Group A you pick one starter driver and one bench driver. From Group B you pick two starters and two bench. From Group C you pick one starter, one bench. On Yahoo they do have driver stats and expert picks that you can use from race to race - though it don't neccesarily mean a great finish (For an example, here is what my team consisted of last week for Daytona: Group A: Jeff Gordon (S) Jimmie Johnson ( Group B: Dale Jr (S) Jamie McMurray (S) Ryan Newman ( AJ Allmendinger ( Group C: Michael Waltrip (S) Paul Menard () I have picked different drivers for this upcoming race, drivers I think will do good at Phoenix. *For starters, you can only use a driver nine times (Bummer, I know. I'd love to use Gordon all 36 races...oh well. ) That is all I can think of as rules right now...I find it fun and entertaining. It gives me more than just Gordon, Johnson, and Jr to follow throughout the whole race. So if anyone is interested or have questions please post them here or PM them to me soon so I can get it started. We missed a race, but it's all in fun after all. They give you a date and time that you have to pick your drivers by and for this week it is early Sat. morning...so we will most likely miss this upcoming race too unless I get a couple of people that are interested by tomorrow night. I was thinking, if there are people interested and I do create a team, that I would call our team: HAZZARD COUNTY RACING TEAM. If I only get a couple of people interested, I will probably leave it public, but if more people are interested, perhaps make it a private team. My last year's team only consisted of three players and it was still fun. Just let me know what y'all think .

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Pulling to a quick halt on the side of the road, Cooter and Luke slowly climb out of the windows of The General Lee. For a long moment silence thickly surrounds them as they silently take in the scene that lies ahead of them. The scene where Rosco had swerved and rolled down the steep ditch into the tree below when his brakes had gone out. Luke had thought it might be a good place to start their search to get some answers to what had happened to Rosco's patrol car. Staring down at the thick tire ruts in the mud and the a large section of bark missing from the thick tree, chills violently cross Luke's tense body as his mind brings up vivid images of last night's events. Of the events that may change their lives forever, the events that may steal Rosco's life away from him. "What now, Lukas?" Cooter asks, to break the odd silence between them, "What we suppose to find out here other than the tire ruts and the damaged tree? I coulda tol' you that'd be what we'd find here." Luke sends an impatient look at him before he slowly look forward to begin to carefully walk down the hill and Cooter slowly follows him down. Reaching the bottom, Luke is hit heavily with dread at the bleak future that lies ahead for his youngest cousin due to this scene. "I don't know, Cooter," he sighs heavily as he runs his hand over the rough torn bark on the tree as he envisions the horrorific accident that Rosco had to go through. "But figured we had to start somewhere. Might as well as be here." Cooter nods as he silently walks around the flattened grass, looking at the shattered glass that is scattered around, his own emotions gnawing within him. They walk around the damaged area where Rosco's car had come to a halt, taking it all in as if searching for answers, before Luke breaks away to follow the tire ruts in the mud up the hill. "Well," he states after a long moment, eyeing the distant surroundings for a long moment before he looks back at Cooter as Cooter reaches the parked General, "let's head back to town. See if Enos has found anything yet." Cooter nods as he makes his way to the passenger door of The General. "Perhaps we can stop by and see Bo again," he pauses as they both climb into The General through the window and Luke restarts the powerful engine, "I really hate to see him this down and hard on himself over something we all know he didn't do." "Yeah me too," Luke nods as he pulls out onto the dirt road, "me too, Cooter."

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Well Roger...don't know if this will help you feel better about NASCAR or not, but the whole idea of changing the point system was to simplify it and make it easier to understand. Though, I do understand the new point system - at least I think I do- I see where it is confusing. Namely the drivers who are in different series and has to pick a series to run in - just read part of a article on how in all three series that the driver that won, didn't get the points due to signing up for another series. Michael Waltrip won the Truck series and he signed up for Sprint Cup points, Tony Stewart won the Nationwide Series race and he's signed up for Cup points, and Trevor Bayne won the Sprint Cup race and he signed up for Nationwide Series points. Y'all confused yet? I see where NASCAR is coming from, but can't say I agree with it...so yeah, I am sure it will bring controversy...as it always seems to do. That's NASCAR for y'all. We are off to Phoenix this upcoming Sunday...am looking forward to it, are you?

Well I was going to wait until later to post the points since they won't be made official until tomorrow, but don't know when I'll have time to be online next. So I decided to post the unofficial points as they stand now. If I see that they change later, I will let y'all know. Here is the top ten UNOFFICIAL points after Daytona: 1. Carl Edwards 2. David Gilliland 3. Bobby Labonte 4. Kurt Busch 5. Juan Montoya 6. Regan Smith 7. Kyle Busch 8. Paul Menard 9. Mark Martin 10. AJ Allmindinger PS: In case y'all are wondering why Trevor Bayne is not first or on the top ten list in points, since he won today's race, let me remind you that NASCAR has made a new rule. Each driver has to put down what division they want to run for a championship in (truck, or Nationwide, or Sprint). So drivers like Edwards, Kyle Busch, Stewart, Bayne, and a few others that drive two or three series, has to decide which series they want to run for a championship in...so drivers can drive in the different series, they just won't be included in the points or at least on the top or something like that. They will earn money for racing in the other series, just not points.

Yeah the wires are gone...can't think of the names of 'em right now, but glad to see them gone. Not too big of a fan of transformers, but did see the Newman and Gordon theme last year and it was awesome to see Johnson, Montoya's, and Jr's car all decked out for it on the track. Thanks about Gordon...disappointing, but at least now that the season has started, there is always next week. Jr had a good race til the end. Hopefully he can carry that out next week...I think a win for him would do a great deal to boost his confidence. As well as with Gordon. Glad Stewart did well for you...thought he was going to have a good finish there for a while...or a better one. But right now, 13th doesn't look so bad. Today's race was very unpredictable and was hard to knwo where to go and what to do it looked like.

Well the Daytona 500 has just gotten over a few minutes ago and I am still plagued with dread, disbelief, and surprise. Dread at the idea that both of my top two favorite guys...Gordon and Johnson...was sent to the garage on lap 29 when David Reutimann moved away and Waltrip didn't know to spin him out. Johnson was in the garage for sixteen laps and finished 27th and Gordon was in for 30 laps to end 28th all in all. They travelled two by two all day...and communication with the drivers was a problem. At one point Jr.'s spotter didn't replay that a caution was out and he almost wrecked due to it. Jr had a pretty good race and led several laps. Then with two laps to go he was involved in an accident when ROBBY Gordon went off the track and people tried to make room to get him back in where there was no room. (It was odd to see Steve Letarte, Gordon's old cc, in his pit!) With the green, white, checkered drop, David Ragen was leading with Trevor Bayne second. But since he switched lanes early, he got black flagged and sent to the back. (may have been before the Jr accident. They had to drop the green, white, checkered twice today due to accidents.) Roger - your new guy, Kurt Busch was up front all day despite being involved / caused a couple of wrecks. Top five isn't too bad considering...led several laps. At one point the most laps, but don't know if that stayed true to the end or not. Odd to see him in the yellow and red car with number 22 on it. They had record lead changes, cautions...and the youngest driver to win the Daytona five hundred. Was a race full of record changes. With Ragen out, Trevor Bayne, who turned twenty years old yesterday, went on to WIN the Dayton 500!!!!!!!!! With Gordon out, I was really excited to see Bayne go and win the Daytona 500 - his first win in his NASCAR career. He races in the Nationwide Series race and has had only one previous Sprint Cup race last year where he finished 18th...or something like that. Trevor looks to have a bright future ahead of him - so far, this year he is only signed to race a limited Sprint Cup schedule, but am interested and hoping to see that change after today. Gordon spotted his talent on Thursday and has been working with him and Bayne says that Gordon was his hero. All in all, of all that I have heard of him and saw of him today, he looks to be a great guy with a lot of talent. I think I found another favorite driver to follow - not just because he won today, either...though he or no one will replace Gordon or Johnson. WAY TO GO TREVOR BAYNE - NUMBER 21!!!!!!!! Here is the top ten finishes of today's race: 1. Trevor Bayne 2. Carl Edwards 3. David Gilliland 4. Bobby Labonte 5. Kurt Busch 6. Juan Montoya 7. Regan Smith 8. Kyle Busch 9. Paul Menard 10. Mark Martin Well I am highly disappointed with Gordon's accident...it is always disappointing and upsetting when Gordon wrecks or have a bad finish for me, but it is worse when it is the Daytona 500. But am very excited to see Trevor Bayne win his first NASCAR win at Daytona 500! He didn't even know where to go when he won - it was great! Besides the race, they had a great pre race show with Brad Paisley. Liked his racing shirt, and his Daytona 500 guitar. Dierks Bently sang his "Sideways" song but put a NASCAR theme to it. Martina McBride sang "The National Anthem" with great talent. They also paid great tribute to Dale Sr. Now we are off to Phoenix next Sunday at 2:30 ET on Fox...am looking forward to hearing Darrell Waltrip say "Boogity, Boogity, Boogit, let's go racing Boys!" again. Never get tired of hearing him say that!

Well today was the Nationwide Series Daytona race and sadly I missed it. Oh well guess I probably won't catch 'em all anyway, but Daytona would have been nice. Though I can gaurantee you that I will be watching the Daytona 500 tomorrow. (GO GORDON GO!!!!!!!!!!) Here is the top ten finishes of today's race: 1. Tony Stewart 2. Clint Bowyer 3. Landon Cassill 4. Dale Earnhardt Jr 5. Reed Sorenson 6. Jason Leffler 7. Kyle Busch 8. Ricky Stenhouse Jr 9. Michael Waltrip 10. Trevor Bayne

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