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Happy birthday Cathy - hope your day was as special as you are. Happy birthday!

Forward Jami Lee- Ouch...that stings a little. Though I do like ol' June Bug (third on my list of favorites) I'd have to say you can't get more real of a number than 24. Hoss - Jack Bauer fan? Who's that? LOL...I know, I know the TV series 24. Looks like an action packed show, but never seen an episode of it. Sorry to disappoint you, but that isn't where or why I picked 24. Roger - That's a good question...could it be a coincidence that I randomly picked a number that ended up to be the winning car at Phoenix...or of the number of my favorite driver, Jeff Gordon? HA HA.

Trust me, Roger, I did NOT forget about Jimmie's year last year and he didn't start out in his normal dominant fashion that we are all accustomed to. (I still find it sad on how fast you were able to ditch him as your favorite driver...) I for one hopes that he will soon turn his season around for the better...I may want Gordon to take home the championship (as always) but do wish Johnson a good finish. Afterall he is my second favorite driver. At this point of the season we are way too early into it to say who's going to be hot and who's not...though I'd love to say that Gordon's win on Sunday was a great indication of his season. Johnson may only be thirteenth, but I am looking for him to make the chase and to be a threat. Bet you are hoping that Kurt's start to the season will be an indication to his season, too, huh Roger? You are very welcome...I enjoy writing about the race and the points...and well, anything NASCAR.

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Here is the top ten OFFICIAL Sprint Cup points after Sunday's race in Phoenix: 1. Kyle Busch 2. Kurt Busch (bet you're happy, Roger!) 3. Tony Stewart 4. AJ Allmindinger 5. Jeff Gordon (I am very happy...With his win on Sunday and leading the most laps...he has jumped from 28th in points to fifth! Way to go GORDON!) 6. Mark Martin 7. Bobby Labonte (Great to see him in the top ten!) 8. Ryan Newman 9. Juan Pablo Montoya 10. David Gilliand Well the points are really shaken up after the second race into the series...I for one am not complaining. (As y'all can imagine )Though it is weird or odd not to see Jimmie Johnson's name in the top ten for two weeks in a row. (He is thirteenth in points and Jr is 17th in points.) Well make sure to check out my race review if you haven't done so as well as the Nationwide Series points page that I just made up.

Here is the official Nationwide series points after the Phoenix race on Sunday: 1. Reed Sorenson 2. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 3. Jason Leffler 4. Danica Patrick 5. Joe Nemechek 6. Aric Almirola 7. Mike Bliss 8. Justin Allgaier 9. Kenny Wallace 10. Jeremy Clements Once again, I remind y'all that those that opted to run for the Sprint Cup championship and does race in the Nationwide Series races as well, will NOT recieve points in the Nationwide Series. (Joe Nemechek is a Cup driver...more of an start and park car. He must have opted for the Nationwide Series championship points...)

This year Phoenix was held earlier in the year than normal...normally they'd be racing in California this weekend. But they shook up and changed the schedule a bit and today they were racing under the dessert sun. And boy am I glad that they did! The first half of the race was plagued by accidents. From last week's Daytona winner, Trevor Bayne, slamming the wall, to Robbie Gordon spinning out, to Kyle Busch running into Carl Edwards who later ran into JEFF Gordon when he was sent up the track. Then after all those...the big one struck when Matt Kenseth hit Brian Vickers just hard enough to give him a flat tire that caused the twelve or thirteen car pile up that sent most of them to the garage area. Drivers like Jeff Burton, Clint Bowyer, Vickers, McMurray...the list went on and on. Looked more like they were racing at Daytona still the way it was looking. But the last half of the race was pretty exciting of what I saw. I had to meet family at Pizza Hut and I was sure to make sure they put the race on as well as listen to it in the car. Y'all can imagine just how excited I was that Gordon, after his incident with Edwards, was not only still in the race after it happened, but had made it to the front! He and Tony Stewart swapped positions for the lead a few times, Johnson attempted to steal it from Gordon...and after the last pit stop, Kyle Busch came out the leader. Kyle Busch is a dominant driver who normally drives away for the win, so was kinda nervous when Busch increased his distance in front of Gordon. But Gordon raced hard to pass Kyle Busch with 14 or so laps to go! (Boy was it hard for me to sit still while all that was happening...finally had to stand up with six laps to go and he was still leading...LOL). JEFF GORDON WINS AT PHOENIX!!!!!!!!!!!!! To end his 66 winless drought (his last win came at Texas in April of '09). It is his 83rd win to his career to tie him with Cale Yarborough. One win away from tying with Donnie Allison and Darrell Waltrip. Here is the top ten finishes of Phoenix: 1. JEFF GORDON 2. Kyle Busch 3. Jimmie Johnson 4. Kevin Harvick 5. Ryan Newman 6. Kasey Kahne 7. Tony Stewart 8. Kurt Busch 9. AJ Allmindinger 10. Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Great finish for him after just missing the big one today - he drove right through it only to get caught in pits speeding right afterwards.) Well I apologize for my excitement over today's race...I try to stay partial to each driver while writing my reviews. But have a hard time doing so when I finally got the win I have been waiting so long for...it may not be Daytona - NASCAR's superbowl that was last week, but I am just as excited to see Gordon in Victory Lane once again. WAY TO GO JEFF GORDON!!!

During a caution right now so my post will be short... We are on lap 67 and already 23 cars have been involved in an accident! Started with last week's Daytona winner, Bayne going in where there was no room. Then Kyle Busch got into pole sitter Carl Edwards who later got into Gordon...and now we just go over a huge wreck that involved 13 drivers when Kenseth got into Vickers just enough to blow his left rear tire and everyone just collected. The way it is going, you'd think they are at Daytona not Phoenix. They have just ended the red flag and now we are back under yellow for a couple of laps.. For them to be racing like this just into 67 laps is crazy to see all these accidents...a lot of top names in the garage. Luckily Gordon, Johnson, Jr, Busch are all out on track. But McMurray, Burton, Edwards, and so forth are now in the garage due to these few accidents. I will post later, just wanted to give a brief update.

"The Boys of Fall" Kenny Chesney Another great Kenny Chesney song and video...know I've used it before, but decided to go with it again.

Here is the top ten starting positions for today's Sprint Cup race at Phoenix: 1. Carl Edwards 2. Kurt Busch 3. Kasey Kahne 4. Kyle Busch 5. Regan Smith 6. Joey Lagano 7. Martin Truex Jr 8. Jamie McMurray 9. Brad Keselowski 10. Greg Biffle Coverage of the race will start at 3:00 ET on Fox today...2:00 central (my time ). Sadly I will miss the last part of the race, but will try recording it and give y'all my report either late tonight or tomorrow afternoon sometime. I am sad to miss the last half...but maybe Gordon will do better without me jinxing him. HA HA. Gordon, Johnson, and Jr all start in the last half of the lineup - they must not have had very fast qualifying runs or something. Too bad, but at least they have all race to work towards the front. I don't predict the two by two racing as they were at Daytona...I think they were doing that due to the new repaved track. I think racing should be back to normal today. At least I can hope at least.

Animal (Roger...glad to know that I am not the only one excited for baseball to start up again. Hope your Pirates do good this year...just not better than my Cubs. KHEE!)

Once again, I missed the Nationwide Series race...am not doing very good at watching them as I was hoping. Looks like I may even have to miss the Cup race today very disappointed about that. Anyway, Kyle Busch seems to be hot this weekend. He won the truck race at Phoenix and then won pole for the Nationwide Series race...and went on to win it. Here is the top ten for the Nationwide Series at Phoenix: 1. Kyle Busch 2. Carl Edwards 3. Kevin Harvick 4. Ryan Newman 5. Reed Sorenson 6. Joey Lagono 7. Ricky Stenhouse Jr 8. Justin Allgaier 9. Brian Scott 10. Kenny Wallace Well...after two races into the season, I am once again venting on how NASCAR allows Cupr drivers to race in the Nationwide Series races. Once again, the top five drivers that finished last night's Nationwide Series race are Cup drivers...well except Sorenson and he use to drive Cup. So at least half of the top ten is made up of Cup drivers...how are the younger drivers to learn by losing to the Cup drivers? The Cup drivers have years of experience behind them to win races and so forth... Anyways, that's how I feel about it. Onto the Cup Series race this afternoon at 2:30 ET on Fox...

That is OK Roger...doesn't look like too many people are interested in NASCAR fantasy. It was just an idea and thought I'd throw it out there. Good luck with your baseball team. Not so sure if I want to join or not at the moment, it looks like fun though...I love baseball as much as NASCAR. Thanks for letting me know either way.

I read about that online this morning, Roger, and I had thought that Conyers sounded familiar and was guessing it was from the Dukes. Am very glad that they were able to rescue the toddler. What a scare!

"Let the train blow the Whistle" Johnny Cash This time I am sure that is the song title...at least according to Youtube.

[quote=HossC;194030 "I hear a train a comin" is the first line of .DOH me. I can be so dumb sometimes...no wonder why the search kept coming up with Folsom Prison Blues. Don't know why I was thinking that he had a song of that title. I apologize for messing things up here.

I haven't used Kenny's song for a while now so I figured it was time to go back to his music. I can't get enough of his music and I love this song. I love the whole album "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem" that it came off of. It's a great album...then again, I like all of his songs. (Hoss...sounds right. Saw Nine Inche Nails title Hurt after my video was done and was wondering if it was them that wrote it or produced it. It don't matter. It's a good song. Heard of the band, but not their music. I guess I stick with Country and Christian genres in music...with the exception of the New Kids on the Block. Though I bet they put on a great performance for you Hoss and to anyone who does like that kind of music. )