Garrett Duke

Hope you all had a great Christmas and will have an amazing New Years. Hope year 2023 will be your best year yet!

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Wow Spike...look at you outdoing me. Thank you for all the information and for the kind welcome back. NASCAR really can't get here soon enough. I am excited to have Jimmie back. Though sad it's for a different team and a different number and a limited amount of races. I'm going to be so confused on who to go for. I've been all team Hendrick since day one of my fandom. But I am happy to have him back any way I can. I miss the old days of Gordon and Johnson on the track every race going for the championship. As much as I like Chase...it's not the same as it was. I really wish NASCAR would stop putting their hand into the racing and let them race as they use to. But no one asked me...LOL. They also upped the number of drivers in the Clash race to 27 cars. I also just saw that the King himself, Richard Petty, will ride in the the Rose Parade! Sorry I am slacking on my part of the news. I am hibernating at my parents house until I get water. I'm just at my apartment to check things out so I thought I'd hop on for a bit. Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.

Nothing planned here. We are having our Christmas New Years day since my sister's family got sick over Christmas. I have no water at my apartment due to the pipes freezing below me despite telling the landlady in advance of water problems. Sooooo I'm at my parents house for now. I'm blessed they are near by and kind enough to put up with me. HA. I probably won't stay up to midnight either...LOL.

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Ocean

LOL. That's great...I'm sure we will be hearing about it all over the news too.

Dog

Well y'all...I'm sorry I was a no show for our Christmas party. I totally forgot about it until today. I don't think I turned my computer on once yesterday. Hope y'all didn't get too rowdy without me...

Blake Shelton (BS) LOL

It's like this every off season for me...at least it's off season isn't as long as my Cubs off season. Baseball and NASCAR season is my happy time.

Cow (Cow jumped over the moon)

Oh no...not at all. It just can't get here soon enough!

Earth

Just 65 more looooonnnnnnggggggg days...

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If I remember I'll try to hop on. I go to church Saturday night so I don't know.

Bill Elliott is Chase Elliott's Dad. Chase now drives the 9 car that his dad use to drive...

Talking about Chase Elliott he has won the Most Popular Driver of the Year award...fifth time in a row. ( I may or may not have voted for Chase to be the Most Popular Driver for the award...LOL.) Which means that Dale Earnhardt Jr has been retired for five years now since he always won that award before retiring. LOL.

Chase is the best out there. I'm a tad biased. And to give credit to Hamlin (he doesn't deserve any...lol) that as a couple of years ago. He wrecked Chase right before he was going to win the race...Chase got him back the next race. And for once, Hamlin admit afterwards that he had it coming. It just something you don't forget when your driver is about to win the race and some so called driver wrecks him intentionally for the win. Hamlin doesn't seem to make much friends out on the track like that...but he's not the only driver that seems to drive that way. I feel like Hendrick as a team is pretty clean team of drivers...not going to say they are flawless or without any fault, but they don't seem to be out there looking to cause wrecks or trouble. Then again...I am biased. HA.

That'd be cool to see them or another team like that. I've seen my Cubs at Wrigley Field several times...does that count for anything?

Well it looks like you are looking for suggestions on who to follow. Forget Hamlin. He purposefully wrecked my Elliott. I think Elliott would be a better choice for you to follow now that ol' Rusty's retired and all that. I mean Elliott is from Georgia...where your Braves call home and all.

Well Roger...that's just rude. I now feel dejected and spit upon. My poor Cubs... I'm all about my Chicago sports thanks to my Cubbies...I'm in Iowa so I have no professional sports team. So I go for the Cubs...have since I was four years old. I'm beyond hope. LOL. My Bears are pretty much beyond hope this season as well. It's been kinda painful. HA. Maybe the Blackhawks and Bulls will pull it off.

I know you don't and I totally understand. I am the same way with other sports...like I was going for the Yankees post season since they have my Anthony Rizzo...who should still be with the Cubs if you ask me...which no one has. But you get my free opinion...HA! I have to find some connection, so I totally get it and was giving you a hard time. I can't give you too much of a hard time, because you did go for Johnson and you like Chase Elliott. Now if you liked some of them other drivers...I'd have something to really give you a hard time over. And if it helps you feel any better, it's the Dukes that got me into liking NASCAR to begin with and the only way I found Gordon to follow is he was in a People's magazine when I first found interest in NASCAR and then it took off...took me a long time to get to understand the sport and all that went on and to get to know the drivers...now most of those are gone and they got these young kids out there. But I am all about the Duke connection thing... I appreciate you going for my Cubs because of me. That just made my day. They need you and everyone's support. I always think of you when it comes to the Pirates too.

Well it's not Gordon's or Johnson's fault they started their NASCAR career after the Dukes or that their dad's weren't in the business to be mentioned in the Dukes. Or that their hometown is in California. Why hold it against them? I like Chase...but because I knew he was being eyed as Gordon's replacement way back before he came to the Xfinitiy Series. So I started to keep tabs of him since then, then officially when that sad day that Gordon walked away and Elliott took over the 24 car. And now the 9 car. He better race for the next fifty years or so...because I don't know what or who I'd follow without him. Someone with Hendrick...Larson, Bowman, or Byron. Still not the same as Elliott. Just like Elliott will never replace Gordon or Johnson in my eyes. I am very sentimental. HA. I will always miss Gordon and Johnson behind the wheel just like I miss seeing Ryne Sandberg out at second base in his Chicago Cubs uniform. . .