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Well, Roger you better watch out, sounds like your Pirates are up to play my Cubs in the near future sometime. I'll have to look it up. If you're lucky, the Cubs' ace pitcher will still be serving his indefinite suspension he was given last night...by the Cubs themselves! Though don't know if they consider Carlos Zambrono as their ace anymore, he hasn't been as hot as he use to be. Didn't see the event when it had happened but have seen it online and heard a lot about it from TV sports shows and online...have to agree with the Cubs manager and GM that it was uncalled for. Very sad that he would take out his frustrations on his own teammates. Understand it is frustrating that they are losing and that he gave up four runs in the first inning, but by what the media is saying, it wasn't the players' fault that the runs were scored or allowed on base. Even if it was their fault, I'd still find it uncalled for. Think they are done or tired of his temper tantrums already, especially now that he isn't pitching as he use to. Think the Cubs made the right choice by giving him the suspension...guess he didn't punch anyone (this time) and the only thing that was physically hurt was the water cooler, but the last thing the team needs is for each other to take out their frustrations on one another. Not good for team morale at all either. It is sad when the team has to suspend their own players. . .(am hoping that Zambrano will get help for his anger/temper and that the Cubs will be able to move forward from this event...) GO CUBS GO!!!!!!!!!!!! (Sorry Roger...had to say that. I'll be a die hard Cubs fan til the day I die. Sorry to disappoint ya!)

Possum on a gummbush Roger, you did it again! And right after you said you wouldn"t do that.

Danica Patrick returns to NASCAR's Nationwide Series race after a couple months of absence, says her goal is to get a top fifteen in today's race. I watched a few minutes of the race a little while ago and she was 36th and two laps down from everyone else. Brad Keselowski was leading with Kevin Havick behind him. Looks like she has some work cut out for her today if she is wishing to get a top fifteen. Anyone else been following her or the Nationwide Series here? I haven't really been watching her nor do I really watch the Nationwide Series due to time and forgetting about it. But I do generally hear who wins or if anything "big" happens in the race as well as hear where Patrick finishes out in the few races she has raced so far this year. They said that her highest finish was in the thirties so far this year. So with that in mind, maybe a fifteen top finish is a too high of a goal to start out with. I don't know. Am not a big fan of her's, but I think that is because of all the publicity she has gotten in the series...hopped on and watched a few minutes of the race today and that is all they were talking about...was her. If that was anyone else in 36th spot they may mention it, but wouldn't go on and on about them. But don't find that too surprising since she seems to bring a lot of attention no matter where she is running. My opinion is, is that the announcers and the media need to stop putting all their attention onto one person. That goes for Sprint Cup as well. They seem to follow the drivers that are the hottest or doing the best...especially on certain channels over some others. It use to be Jr that they followed, then Stewart, then Kyle Busch and a little on Jimmie Johnson as well. No matter where they were running, that was who they were following. Maybe it is just me that feels that way, but that's how it feels to me. Anyway that is my two cents worth. For Danica's sake, I hope that she will be able to learn the sport and to become good at it. I think she is a good Indy driver and she has a big name which is why she is getting all the attention she is getting.

Yet again, another statement ending in Y and it makes me wonder why.

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I have to agree this is a good topic, though can't exactly pin an exact song that Garrett seems to like or suits him best. Generally it is the entire CD playing. Kutless- Strong Tower CD Kenny Chesney - No shoes, No Shirt, No Problem CD ...or any of his Greatest Hits CD Keith Urban - Golden Road CD - Greatest Hits Toby Keith - Greatest Hits One and two Tim McGraw - Greatest Hits 2 Dwight Yoakam - his latest Greatest Hits album Waylon Jennings - any of his hits CDs that I have As it looks a lot of Greatest Hits from favorite artists with well played song or well known songs on them. Either Christian or Country.

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Well they are racing at Loudon on Sunday. Enjoyed the road course because it is something different and something they don't race on that often, but am glad to be back on track again. LOL. But perhaps some of the reason being is from all the drivers that had left upset and all the negative attention that had been directed at Gordon. One would have thought they were racing at Bristol by how they were racing each other and how high their emotions was after the race. Not a road race. A typical road race is kinda slow compared to a regular race because the cars can't go as fast as they do on track and it is harder for them to pass one another. They may not have been going as fast and may not have passed that often on Sunday, but there was a lot of drivers that left upset at each other and then you have the whole incident with Ambrose. Glad Johnson got his first road race win though (got to correct myself...Johnson won Bristol in the spring to win his first Bristol race. My post before Sunday's race said Johnson didn't win at Bristol yet, when he did this year.) After talk of retaliation and all that at Sonoma, am hoping that the drivers has patched up their hard feelings with one another and that there will be no retaliation at Loudon. Then again, the incident I am talking about is of Martin Truex Jr threatening to retaliate against Gordon; so that may have a lot to do with it. Gordon's having enough trouble on his own getting a win, he doesn't need any help by any other upset drivers he got mad at him last Sunday. Anyway, as always, am looking forward to the race on Sunday. It should be a good one. Gordon is good at tracks like Loudon. As is Ryan Newman it sounds like. Tony Stewart starts getting better and winning more in the summer so he should be getting better as it gets warmer. OK now that I have succeeding in boring y'all, I'll shut up now. Just had to throw a little tid bit in here after not posting anything here for a couple of days. Roger - would be interested in hearing your "expert's" reasons behind thinking the races are fixed and to hear how NASCAR has it's way of controling who wins and all that. All I can think of is by them throwing un-neccessary cautions towards the end of the race. (which is killing Gordon right now BTW. Not un-neccessary cautions per say, just the restarts in general.) As I said, I've heard other people upset online accusing NASCAR of the same thing and had a few thoughts of it here and there, but have thus far refused to think too much into it. Does your "expert" ramble on as much as I do about NASCAR? LOL

Bo 29 Luke 28 Jesse 27 Cooter 16 Don't matter to me. It was just an idea. And you're right...wouldn't be fair to Cooter or TxDaisy.

Bo 29 Luke 28 Jesse 27 Cooter 16 This is really getting us no where. There has to be some way of moving it on...perhaps if I wasn't so stubbornly voting for the same person it would help. LOL. Perhaps we can have start over with the top two or three with the most points? Kinda like the play offs or superbowl. If that makes any sense...

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Welcome to Hnet...I am willing to bet you'll enjoy your stay. Hope you find what you are looking for and am looking to see some of your stories. I've got a few floating online as well. Don't know how good they are...but they're there all the same. Khee. The windy city, huh? That's just a few hours from where I live. I'm not a big city person, but have been to Chicago a few times and must say for a big city, I do tend to like it there. Then again, I am a HUGE Chicago Cubs fan. Gotta ask...Cubs or White Sox? Once again, welcome to Hnet!

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Well Roger, if you ever get him to come aboard, I'd be glad to hear what he has to say and where he is coming from with it all. I've heard it all from other fans online, but never paid them no attention. I guess I like NASCAR too much to think that it is all rigged and that NASCAR has their hand in with who wins and so forth. It'd ruin it a hundred percent for me to know that. But they do have a way of throwing those "phatom debris" cautions out as Denny Hamlin called it last week. And they do tend to be more lenient on some drivers than they are on other drivers. Some of their calls are questionable. But would hate to think that they have their hand in it all like I said...think they would lose a lot of fans of that kind of stuff would get around. Can't think of what NASCAR could do at Sonoma exept maybe their call to penelize Marcos Ambrose at the end there that gave JJ the win. At first I thought it was bogus too. But Marcos' car came to a stop. They said there is a rule that regulates that they have to keep up with the pace car's speed to keep their position, and no matter how much I wanted Ambrose to win it, he didn't keep up to speed. He made a mistake and hopefully will learn from it. Other than that, everything else that seemed to go on was a lot of binging and banging amongst the drivers. As I said, Roger, I would like to hear what your "expert" has to say to back all that up with. As I said, heard other fans online talk like that too and all. Can see where they can get that at times. For my sake, I am really hoping that they are wrong...would think it would take a lot out of the race for me to know that NASCAR has the say as to who wins and so forth and that it isn't all up to the drivers, their talent, and work along with the competition that comes up with the win or the loss or the accidents.

I am so sorry about Kristy and all of your guys' loss. I will keep Kristy in my prayers as she goes through this difficult time.

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Luke 27 Bo 28 Jesse 26 Cooter 19 (Don't know what else we can do to get it going again other than starting over with other characters, but then we'd be down to the same characters eventually. Yeah...looks like this can go on forever if we dont' find some way to move it forward.)

(LOL...poor ol' Cooter. You do have to feel bad for him, though I guess I don't feel too bad because it's been awhile since I gave him any points. But I make it a point not to take a point from him. Gotta count for something, right? I normally give the point I take away to the same person. Perhaps I shouldn't admit that...LOL. I'll let y'all guess as who that is. Bet that isn't too hard. )

Well the race at Sonoma has just finished and I think it had as many twists to it as it had turns. I hope you all got to at least watch part of it and that your driver had a great race. Jimmie Johnson won his first road race today, am sure he is excited about that. Am glad for him, though was hoping for Marcos Ambrose to win just because it would have been his first win in the cup series for him. Plus he's had some horrible luck this year. Ambrose lead a lot of laps and was leading with ten to go on the final restart...but during the caution, while going up a hill he coasted or something. His car came to a halt which it is against NASCAR rules...you have to keep pace car speed. So instead of starting first as he would have if he didn't do that, he started seventh. Can't imagine how upset he must have been at himself. He took time out in the hauler before coming out to talk to the media about it to calm himself down. Which was big of him...most of those guys would either refuse to talk to the reporters or if they did talk, would be upset and all that. Ambrose finished sixth, which is pretty good, except when you know you could have had the win. All in all, am happy with the race, happy with Johnson winning. As for Gordon...he had a pretty good race, though think he made a few other drivers upset with some contact he had with them. Martin Truex Jr being one of them who has said he'll get back at him in Loudon next week...which I hope by then they'll have it worked out. Gordon felt bad for it. He had contact with Kurt Busch and Clint Bowyer as well throughout the race to spin them out. Which is surprising coming from Gordon, but he apologized for it all after the race, said some of it was hard racing and so forth. There was a lot of accidents and spin outs through the whole thing. They even had to back flag it after they all got into each other on one of the restarts. Here is the top ten: 1. Jimmie Johnson 2. Robby Gordon 3. Kevin Harvick 4. Kasey Kahne 5. Jeff Gordon 6. Marcos Ambrose 7. Greg Biffle 8. Boris Said 9. Tony Stewart 10. Juan Pablo Montoya 11. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Here is the unofficial standings: 1. Kevin Harvick 2. Jimmie Johnson (-140) 3. Kyle Busch 4. Denny Hamlin 5. Jeff Gordon 6. Kurt Busch 7. Matt Kenseth 8. Jeff Burton 9. Greg Biffle 10. Tony Stewart 11. Mark Martin 12. Carl Edwards 13. Dale Earnhardt Jr (-57 out of the top twelve) The race today had really shook up the points. Jimmie climbed four spots with his win while Kyle and Denny both lost position due to a bad race. Gordon climbed two positions as well and now Dale Jr has found new hope of getting back into the top twelve...if only he can continue to have strong finishes as he has had in the last two races.

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I hope you get to watch the end of the race as well, Roger. I am hoping that I will get to see it as well, there is something else that is going on at the same time in town that I may go to. Am not sure right now. Am hoping for a good race for all our drivers tomorrow!

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Congratulations Chet on the new job! It sounds like one that you will enjoy doing and I hope you do enjoy it. You deserve the best. Congrats!

Wow Roger that is a neat story. Ironic how things seem to meet up like that. Hopefully you'll be chatting to him online sometime soon.