Garrett Duke

Looks like congratulations is in store here...Congrats Daisy on fan of the month!

Sounds like you had fun. All of your costumes sound cute and fun. I use to watch Walker every Saturday night with my family. That was a great show!

Did you dress up? If so, what?

Ahhh you're fine. I hope you had a good Holloween! I assume since you said you're still on a surgar rush that you got a lot of candy. Lucky you. LOL

Thought it was a good race up until they started the race up after Newman's accident and Gordon ran out of gas with three laps to go - while caution. And then got caught up in the last accident...which was started by Keselowski pushing another driver. Perhaps there is something to him driving too aggressively afterall! Dunno...that is my two cents. Sadly ironic how a race can go from great to horrible in a matter of three laps!

As I told my parents, I think NASCAR is going to be hearing about it for awhile now about the race - complaints like Newman had while interviewing him. Of how boring it was at the beginning and so forth. Stewart complained to his crew of how boring it was as well. Single file for Talledega - who woulda thought? But I guess it kept "the big one" at bay until the drivers pushed caution to the wind to begin 'racing'.

Well I think the championship had just been handed to Johnson. For a while there I thought there may be a chance for Gordon to catch up, but that dang accident with five to go and then the last one...really done Gordon and Martin in. Glad Newman is OK after that horrible accident - that was hard to watch. Was almost as bad as Logano's.

Hi TexasDaisy! How are you? HOpe all is well with you. Things are alright here. Getting over a bad headcold. Hope you are having a good Halloween!

Thank-you - I hope you have a great Halloween weekend too! You going to dress up or go to a party? I'm not. I don't get all that into it for Halloween. It will be interesting to see if anyone is dressed up for tomorrow's race. Well I will be anxious to hear what you think of the race - like always.

Talledega is tomorrow. I don't know how to feel about it. Part of me is excited the other is dreading it. LOL. Qualifying got rained out so they will be starting in their point order- Johnson, Martin, Gordon and so forth. Guess Gordon caused the big accident in practice. Though don't understand what happened. Hopefully his car is OK and that it won't happen in the race itself. Jr and Martin ran into each other in that incident as well! Johnson was the only Hendrick car unharmed by the sound of it.

Thank-you for your responses and for what you had said about my complaining/venting. Sometimes I may get carried away and am not sure how it is received by the other person. It feels good that I can vent to someone...as well as vice versa. Thank-you.

I'd love to go to a race, especially Bristol. I've been to Bristol twice but was for Dukefest. It'd make it even better to meet you! That would be great! I hope you have a great time!

It's not bad...I'd have to laughed at theat with Busch and the wrestling show - that would have been funny.

Sorry if I complained too much about the incident between Gordon and Montoya...as I say, I can get carried away about things like that. So I'm sorry.

Happy birthday Val! I hope it was a special one!

Didn't see the wrestling with Busch or Logano, but saw commercials for it. Don't know when Edwards is going to be on, but saw picture of Foxworthy with McMurray on NASCAR.com, but didn't read the article or anything. Hope that helps a little bit.

Thansk for your responses.

Well I am a die hard Gordon fan (if you haven't figured that out) and I am not going to give up on him until it is all said and done. Though I guess if I HAD to be REALISTIC about it, you are most likely right. Other than Dega, the chase seems to cater to Jimmie and his racing style. As I said, if you want others to have more of a chance, you should put Bristol in there -I believe he has yet to win there and a road race.

Being a Gordon/Johnson fan I have mixed feelings. One part thinks it would be great for Johnson to win four in a row to make history but then th at would tie him with Gordon's championships so the other part doesn't want him catching up with Gordon...selfish I know. Though technically, Gordon would have 6 championships if not for the chase. But they don't count technicalities I guess. LOL Dang chase anyway!

I agree. Jarrett and Wallace were better as drivers than announcers in that regard. I think all the drivers you listed would have an open mind to the whole racing field and probably more positive as well. Which is why I love it on Fox so much. Waltrip and Hammond both have such a positive attitude about all the drivers...even Gordon. LOL. If it wasn't for the championship and Gordon where he is, I'd be looking forward to Daytona 500 just to be back on FOX.

*Takes a deep breath* Whew...sorry for venting like that. It still makes me upset and waht is worse is NASCAR didn't say nothing as they did to Keselowski a few weeks ago.

I know...forgive and forget, move on. I will shut up about it...or try to. But I am soooo glad to hear you have the same opinion about the announcers! These announcers pick one driver that is "hot" at the time and only seem to follow them. Forget anyone else out there. I guess I should be lucky it is Johnson and not Kyle Busch, but I would highly rather it be Gordon. LOL For examply during pit stops one time, the announcers began to talk about Paul Menard at pit, but stopped after a sentence to talk about Johnson's pit. I like Johnson alright, but it is getting old.

Yeah Gordon was mad at the time, but he at least seemed to have moved on. While Montoya in their press conference claims Gordon is a hard driver to race and that he doesn't give him any space. I so badly wanted to yell at him that Gordon wouldn't have all his wins, championships, or be where he is today if he was an "easy" driver to race against. And if he gave Montoya space easily, Gordon would end up in the back of the field every race. I think Montoya was getting at that he had a faster car than Gordon and he may have been right, but even so, Gordon wouldn't be where he is today if he just slid out of the way.

I am highly hoping there is no recoil come Talledega, that could be lethal to their race and to their championship hopes. I think Gordon is too smart for that, but I am not quiet sure about Montoya. Though Montoya said that they talked and all was fine between them. So hopefully. . .

well I had to ditch on NASCAR.com today when I turned it on it had a big up close picture of Montoya licking his lips and talking how raced Gordon...as if it was the greatest thing. I am just frustrated with it all. Flipping through the channels Sun night, on Speed they were talking about it and they were saying Gordon should stop complianing because that is what Montoya is paid to do...to win races. Well Gordon is paid for the same thing, and he dont' have to wreck anyone!

Well you can color me green then! Tickets to Bristol? That is sooooooooooooooo unfair! I wanna go, I wanna go! LOL I hope you have a blast and for your sake, I hope Edwards will do his famous backflip for you. Of course though, for my sake, I'll always be going for Gordon. Sorry, old habits die hard.

That should help you get through the three month drought of no NASCAR...I wish I had something. LOL. Well I do...you. At least now I have someone to talk to who will understand how I feel! Of which, I am very thankful.