Garrett Duke

Well the race has just gotten over and it was a pretty good race. For the most part. Johnson fought a lose car all day and got into the wall once before he hit hard to finish 37th and several laps off the lead lap due to being in the garage. Though, I have to admit that I was surprised he was able to come back after he had hit the wall so hard and all. Gordon finished sixth which is a lot better than I had thought he would after spending the first half in twenty-third or fouth spot before he moved up with pit stop strategy. So I can deal with sixth place for Gordon. Kurt Busch led a lot of laps and at the end was a fight for the lead between Kurt and Jamie McMurray. Was rooting for Jamie Mac to win it, but he came in second and Kurt won his second race of the year so far. Kyle Busch had problems in pit road...once hitting Brad Keselowski and then got caught leaving too fast and got penelyzed. Last pit stop for Kyle he hit his own crew member...still don't see how he didn't get penelyzed for hitting his crew. I mean how is it that Jeff Burton a couple races back ran over his air hose and had to do a drive by penalty, but Kyle hits his own crew member as the member ran back to the wall and gets nothing? Perhaps it is just me, but it just seems wrong. Tony Stewart hit the rear tire carrier for Greg Biffle on one of his tops with the rear wing and sent the carrier to the hospital for farther observation. Something needs to be done to protect the crew members more... With only a few laps to go, Kyle Busch made it three wide to cut down Jeff Burton's tire and sent Burton to pit road. Burton was having a good race up until then...Found it interesting that Burton got into Kyle's face at the end of the race. Burton is an older driver that don't generally get too upset over things. Not being a fan of Kyle Busch, was glad to see Burton express his displeasure to Kyle for what he had done to him. Also was tired of the announcers keep talking about Kyle all race long as if he was the best driver out there. Don't want to change stations, but tonight was out of control with them continuously talking about him and all that. I thought at least. These announcers are pretty good about being fair to all the drivers and not favoring just one. Except for tonight.. I thought at least. Here is the top ten of how they finished tonight: Kurt Busch Jamie McMurray Kyle Busch Mark Martin David Reutimann Jeff Gordon Clint Bowyer Paul Menard Ryan Newman Matt Kennseth Here is the top twelve in standings (unofficial): Kevin Harvick Kyle Busch (-29 points) Matt Kennseth Jeff Gordon Denny Hamlin Kurt Busch Jimmie Johnson Jeff Burton Greg Biffle Mark Martin Carl Edwards Ryan Newman We are onto Pocono (I think) next week and it will be on TNT for the summer coverage of the season. We are now halfway to the chase...

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LOL Roger. Well I had to give it a try...though let me remind you who brought Jimmie Johnson into the Sprint Series. The man that owns part of Johnson's car...Jeff Gordon. And look at the gratitude he gets. *Shakes head* Well, I guess we'll see how the points shake out after tonight's race. Hopefully both Gordon and Johnson will have a great race...though really hope Gordon gets the win. HA HA!

Jimmie Johnson? Don't you mean when Jeff Gordon get to be first in points? Khee...You know I couldn't help myself. I like Jimmie Johnson, but I am thinking he had his turns already. Should be Gordon's turn right about now to be up top. Don't you? HA HA.

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I'd be glad to go over the top standings so far... 1. Kevin Harvick 2. Kyle Busch 3. Matt Kennseth 4. Jimmie Johnson 5. Denny Hamilin 6. Jeff Gordon 7. Greg Biffle 8. Jeff Burton 9. Kurt Busch 10. Carl Edwards 11. Mark Martin 12. Martin Truex Jr. That is the top twelve drivers in the points right now...which is where everyone wants to be when it comes to the last ten races when the chase starts. Anyone outside of the top twelve has no chance of getting the championship... Ryan Newman has won his sixth pole for the Coca Cola 600 (Sunday night's race). Kurt Busch will start second, Martin Truex Jr will be third, Kasey Kahne will start fourth, and Jimmie Johnson will start fifth for the race. (The top five qualifying order.) As stated before, am excited for the race. It is a night race, which is always exciting for me, plus it tends to be a long race as well. Just hope Gordon can at least come away with a top five in it if not the win...he needs to break this horrible winless streak. LOL! Hope everyone will have a great Memorial Day weekend...hope you get to watch the race!

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Welcome Dukefan! I am really glad to see that you have returned to HNET! Well Roger, I am glad that it is the simplest and safest surgery. That part is a relief. I really hope that it will go well for you and that you will have a safe and quick recovery. You will be in my thoughts and prayers.

It's my fault for making you lazy, huh Roger? Perhaps I should stop with my reports so you'll get back to rooting for Jimmie Johnson and watching him. I think he needs your support right about now...I give him mine, but obviously it ain't enough for him. Perhaps that has something to do with the fact I go for Gordon more than him, but still, Jimmie's my second favorite. LOL. Just joking. I'd have a hard time talking about the race when y'all have given me permission to do so and put up with it. I don't know much people that likes racing or NASCAR, so this gives me an opportunity to talk about it to someone who is interested in it. You are welcome. Glad I was able to help. I would see how and why you would get mixed up with Sprint and the sprint type of cars. I would too. Sunday night will be the Coca Cola 600 at Lowes (Charolette MotorSpeedway) It will be a fun and exciting night of racing I am assuming. I am looking forward to it - then again, I always look forward to the races, especially if Gordon does bad in the last race. Look forward to see him come back with a stronger finish if that makes sense. Jimmie Johnson is good at this track so hopefully he can find his lucky horse shoe everyone jokes he had and have a better finish than he did at the All-Star race which is at the same track. They use to call it "The house that Jimmie Built" since Lowe's sponsors him and he's good at Lowe's the track. LOL Anyway, hope Gordon and all of your drivers will have a good race and a good finish.

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You are welcome, Texas Daisy. Thought I'd share that info about Vickers. I bet he is disappointed and all knowing that he is feeling a lot better and yet can't race. ****** Well anyone other than me watch teh All Star race last night? The shoot out race before, I only saw the last half, but was satisified to see Truex Jr and Biffle win their way into the All star race. Was glad to see Edwards get the fan vote - if I'd have voted, I would have voted for him. I really like the driver introductions that they do before the All - Star race. It is always exciting to see the way the drivers and the crews present themselves. Found it very touching and nice to see Brian Vickers get introduced and walk in with Casey Mears who drove his car for him. It was good to see him after what he went through. As for the All Star race itself...my opinion is that the only positive thing about the whole race was that it was NOT a points race. Being a Gordon fan and a Johnson fan - it was very frustrating race for me. Gordon hit the wall hard on the first lap and struggled throughout the whole thing staying back in 15th or so place through the whole thing before someone ran into Martin or something and caused the big wreck - knew Gordon was going to be in it. He had no where else to go. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but it took him out of the race completely after that. My first instinct was to turn it off and go to bed since it was late and I'd have to get up early today, but Johnson was still in it so I stayed up to watch since he was so dominant. Only to be shoved infield with a couple of laps to go. By then I might as well as have stayed up to see the finsih. Kurt Busch took home the million dollars that the winner gets... And all that with Gordon and Johnson happened in the last ten lap shoot out, which is a given that something is going to happen with the winning at stake, no points, and ten laps to do it... Was kinda interesting to see the whole thing happen between Hamlin and his team mate Kyle Busch. Hamlin may not have hit Busch when Busch went for the lead, but he blocked him right into the wall to send him backwards. Only for his tire to blow and take him out completely...as well as Kasey Kahne (Felt bad for Kahne, another driver in the wrong place at the wrong time.) But Kyle was mad...told his crew on the radio that htey better keep him away from Hamlin after the race. It had it won. He said that before his tire blew. Then he went and parked his car in front of Hamlin's trailer! Guess they had a 20 minute talk between them and their car owner Joe Gibbs. Well we are onto Charolette again on Sunday night for the Coca-Cola 600 where it will be for points so hopefully Gordon and Johnson will have a much better race! My opinion of course. Would have been much more upset last night with Gordon's wreck if it was for points...as well as Johnson, but Gordon is behind Johnson so in my opinion, is in need of more points. LOL. Well there is my two cents worth on all that had happened last night in the All-Star race. I hope that everyone else's drivers had better races than my drivers had. All four Hendrick drivers were in the two accidents in ten laps to go...Am looking forward to the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday night on Fox again. (I am thinking it is the last race they'll have on Fox. Then it will go to TNT. I like Darrell Waltrip, Jeff Hammond, and Mike Meyers - the announcers on FOX. Once again, my opinion...

Roger - There is three different NASCAR series - but there are a whole lot of different types of racing if you know what I mean. They said some number last night, but I can't remember exactly what it was. It was a lot though. The three NASCAR Series are the Craftsman Series or Camping World (I can't remember right now. They switched sponsors for the name and I cant remember which was the old one and which is the new one.) Which is the truck series races. I haven't really gotten into them or even watched them. Though I do know some of the top names of the drivers in the series. Some of Nextel Drivers drive there as well. Then there is the Nationwide Series (formly known as the Busch Series) that is where mainly the younger drivers race. Though a lot of NEXTEL drivers drive in there as well such as Kevin Harvick, Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin and so forth. It is kinda like triple A baseball is to the MLB. Where the drivers get their start before moving up. (Though unlike baseball, the big league drivers have the option to race in it. Though not all do. Gordon and Johnson doesn't as well as a lot of others.) Then there is the main NASCAR series that is the Nextel Series which is what Gordon, Johnson, Stewart, Jr and all them race in that I mainly talk about. I think I have only watched one or two Nationwide Series races, though again do know some of the drivers that do drive in it. Nextel Series is the only series that I watch every week and know the most about. Though would be interesting to get into the Nationwide Series races more if I had more time and all that. . . Hope that helps Roger. Bet your mechanic had a great time at Dover! I would love to go to a race!

Due to the medicine that Brian Vickers is on due to his blood clots, he will be out the remainder of the season. They said he couldn't drive for a minimum of six months which would be the end of the season...but will be racing again at Daytona next February. Casey Mears will race for him in the All Star race tomorrow as well as for the rest of the season.

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Thanks for the info Daney. Is the original Law and Order the one with Jack McCoy? The lawyer part of it? Just wondering. I heard of the Law and Order Las Angeles. But to me, it won't be the same thing. Glad to hear SVU got renewed. Sorry about Cold Case. There were a lot of shows it looked like that got canceled. I don't know if this is normal or if I am just noticing it because Numb3rs was one of them. Like I said, I don't have much room to complain. I had my warnings and I had the show longer than expected, just disappointed to see it go. If I feel this way about Numb3rs being cancelled, I'd hate to know how bad I'd have felt if I was old enough to understand it with the Dukes. Oh well...at least there are the DVDs and fan-fics.

Any Numb3rs fans out there? Other than the Dukes, Numb3rs is my second favorite TV show...rating pretty close to Dukes. I had looked forward to Friday nights to watch the show at nine (central time) to watch the show on CBS. Well a few months they ended season six six episodes early to put on on Miami Medical...well it has been made official that CBS has ended Numb3rs once and for all. I guess I shouldn't be upset. I saw it coming. CBS gave plenty of warning that the creaters of Numb3rs got to make an awesome show finale...one that they could add onto in case it wasn't cancelled. So I got an awesome finale - one that would have been hard to out do if they were able to get into their season seven. So at least had warning...was expecting it by what the creater of the show had said as well as Rob Morrow (was Don Eppes) on Monday. I had six awesome seasons of the show and have half of the show on DVD to watch and to rewatch as much as I want to. Yet, to me, it won't be the same. It was the only show I had made a point to catch each week, the only show that put compitition to the Dukes. Sorry to complain on a Dukes site and all, but it is just saddening to me to see such a great show come to an end. I knew eventually it had to, but still doesn't make it any easier to accept. Also...heard on the Numb3rs site that Law and Order is coming to an end...don't know if it is all their shows or just one. I like Law and Order to, so it is sad to see that coming to an end. Though I mainly am able to catch the reruns of it by running into the show while flipping through the channels. So it isn't like Numb3rs or the reruns of the Dukes on CMT Or TNN, but still surprising to come to an end. I do enjoy watching it. SVU is my favorite of the Law & Orders, but do like CSI as well as the ones with Jack McCoy in it. Oh well life will go on...LOL. Guess that's where Fanfic comes in handy...

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'Til Summer Comes Around- Keith Urban (Surprised? LOL)