Garrett Duke

Roger - Dang it, I thought you had some Cubs players. So in other words, you must have terrible players because we all know all the best players are on the Cubs. As for our NASCAR league...you better run and hide because I am in dire need to get back to first place. Thanks Hoss for posting the line up for tonight's race...I didn't get home til way late last night and didn't even look at where my drivers started not alone to think of posting them. And sadly, I am going out again tonight...so I will most likely miss tonight's race. Dang I hate missing a race...ESPECIALLY a NIGHT race. Ah well perhaps Jeff Gordon and team Hendrick will do better without me . Kentucky is the ONLY active track that Jeff Gordon has yet to win at (they just started racing here a couple of years ag) so I am really hoping he will get his 88th win tonight so he can say he has won at all tracks. I will read up on it and can and will write my review on that...sorry for all of this. Hoss - you are worried about Jeff Gordon holding up Stenhouse Jr? Not a chance...Gordon is going to go straight to first once the green flag drop.

Well that is the first time I saw that clip...haven't seen those movies. Besides baseball don't go by the movies...they go game by game. Player by player. So until I am able to go in the past and predict the season to gain money, I will go by scores and such. Talking of baseball...Jeff Gordon took his two year old son to the Yankees game. Not the Cubs but at least it is the Yankees.

Sorry to disappoint you Roger, but it ain't gonna happen this year. Because this year, is the CUBS year, all the way! I may have said the same thing for the past twenty some years, but, you know, that is besides the point...one of these years I will be correct and it might as well as be this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oops...glad I missread that. I thought you said we were tied once and then you won...well I guess I can celebrate the weekly victory last week. Seeing how I am losing pretty bad this week. And I would love to make it to the playoffs...don't know if I ever made it that far in baseball. I was excited to get Donaldson...do you have any good players you would be willing to give me?

I bet he did...sorry that he won't be doing it this year. Perhaps next year. Nice to take turns, right?

That is a bummer...hopefully it will change.

Thanks K Duke And yeah, I saw Rozzi and I couldn't resist putting Rizzo down.

Well this isn't baseball or Dukes related, but am proud to share that the Stanley Cup is coming to Chicago with the Blackhawks! Have yet to sit down and watch a hockey game, but have kept up with the Blackhawks through Facebook and through fantasy hockey...am proud and excited that the Blackhawks have won the Stanley Cup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations Chicago Blackhawks on a great season...and for winning the Stanley Cup!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/ Now if only the Cubs can follow suit and win the World Series...I would be beyond HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!

Rozzi fire works...you switch the i and the o around you have Rizzo. As in the Cubs first baseman, Anthony Rizzo! (I am actually wearing his jersery shirt as I type this. HA!) Sorry K, couldn't help myself when I saw the name. I hope that you will one day be able to experience a live MLB game...you will love it. Meanwhile support them from the TV...you can have your own bathroom and well, your drinks and food won't be as expensive.

You mean...you mean...you mean I lost...to you?! In fantasy baseball...? LOL. Congrats on the win...but it will be fun beating you in nine more weeks. I better to tune up my team before then. Since this team has failed me... LOL. As for NASCAR, thank you Roger. Second place finish feels like a win...best finish of the season as of yet. The win has to be around the corner somewhere soon. Right? I was and am very excited with yesterday's race...for Gordon and the rest of team Hendrick. Don't beat yourself up about your NASCAR Fantasy performance...road coarses are different where as there is a select number of drivers that excel at them while the others kinda suffer through them. I will be glad to give you pointers when they go to their second road race next month if you want. But don't be mad if I end up being wrong...I am wrong more than right. I thought I did pretty good with my team, but instead, I ended up slipping. Was disappointed in that...guess havign Juan Pablo Montoya run out of gas on the last lap didn't help me.

Dang it...you are right. I forgot to mention DW was the grand marshall! I was sooo excited when he got up there...it was great to hear his boogity boogity boogity again. I really miss that...I miss him. Musta been all them commercial breaks that got me distracted...think you are right Hoss. Feel like TNT shows more commercials than they do the race and feel the announcers are more negative than the ones on FOX. As I said, really wish FOX aired all the races...but that is my opinion for how little it is worth. You are right...I did like seeing DW and his command.

The Sonoma race has just ended and as I posted earlier, it started off with a bang. Last year they said their first caution was on lap 87 or something like that, but their first caution today was on lap seven after Pablo spun out Kyle Busch. No retaliation on Busch's part, but Kyle had a horrible race that was filled with bad luck. Seemed like he spun out a lot either by the help of others or by his own. Marcos Ambrose led the first few laps before Kurt Busch took over to lead a few laps. On lap twenty-four, Jeff Gordon goes in to make his first pit stop (he was tenth) and right before he made the commitment cone to pit road, NASCAR pulls the caution for rain...which put Gordon at the end of the longest line...and in 38th position. I bet you all can guess who was NOT happy. Kurt Busch goes into pit, his crew chief, warns him to watch his speed that there were others were caught speeding on pit road. So what does Kurt do? He gets caught speeding on pit road. Not only that, but as he went to do his drive through penalty for speeding on pit road...he gets caught again for speeding on pit road. He was put a lap down after that, but he managed to race his way up to the lead lap again and for a top ten finish. Danica Patrick spun out a couple of times today...She was helped put back on the main lap when car owner Tony Stewart caused an accident when he rear ended another driver. (Can't think of who it was at the moment.) Denny Hamlin got into the wall or grass area and caused an infield grass fire...which was quickly put out. Jeff Gordon on the other hand raced his way from 38th position to lead lap before the caution goes out with thirty laps to go...comes back out second to Joey Logano. Martin Truex Jr at some point took the lead and never looked back...breaking his two hundred plus winless streak. Juan Pablo Montoya ran second for a long time before his car ran out of gas on the last lap...which gave Jeff Gordon a second place finish. (Bet y'all can't guess who is excited about that?!) FINAL RESULTS AT SONOMA: 1. Martin Truex Jr. 2. Jeff Gordon 3. Carl Edwards 4. Kurt Busch 5 Clint Bowyer 6 Kasey Kahne 7 Marcos Ambrose 8 Greg Biffle 9 Jimmie Johnson 10 Kevin Harvick 11 Joey Logano 12 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 13 Brian Vickers 14 Paul Menard 15 Ryan Newman 16 Casey Mears 17 Travis Kvapil 18 Boris Said 19 Matt Kenseth 20 Aric Almirola 21 Brad Keselowski 22 Ron Fellows 23 Denny Hamlin 24 David Gilliland 25 Jamie McMurray 26 David Reutimann 27 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 28 Tony Stewart 29 Danica Patrick 30 Justin Marks 31 Jeff Burton 32 Josh Wise 33 David Ragan 34 Juan Pablo Montoya 35 Kyle Busch 36 David Stremme 37 Victor Gonzalez Jr. 38 Tomy Drissi 39 Paulie Harraka 40 Alex Kennedy 41 Jacques Villeneuve 42 J.J. Yeley 43 Bobby Labonte We will be back to making only left turns next Sunday at Kentucky!

HA HA ! I love that Hoss. Well y'all...before the race has even started, there was an accident between two drivers as they went off pit road that had caused a delay to the start of the race as they had to clean the pit road. Bobby Labonte already having a bad day before the race has started. The race has started despite the rain. Now Bobby Labonte pulled off to the side, parked, saying engine problems. David Ragen just got spun out...crazy start to the race! Oh and Juan Pablo Montoya has just spun out Kyle Busch...I can guarantee you that one Kyle Busch is NOT happy with JPM right now.

Dang it...guess I should have double checked that before posting it. HA HA... Am sure it was probably a mistake on who ever does their website then...what ya know, I'm not the only one to make mistakes!

Forget the time start...dang I love that 24 car! Got to be the best looking car on the track. Well it is 1:18 central time here...so that would be 2:18 ET. TVGuide.com says it will start at two my time...which will be 3 EST. See Hoss, you got to have reliable information before posting...otherwise people will be disappointed when they turn it on and it is only TNT's pre race show. HA. I assume the 2:00 EST start included the pre race show...the three start time is the start of the race. Maybe? LOL

Well I could use that commercial, Hoss, but I found this awesome Jimmie Johnson commercial where JJ seems to be talking to you, Hoss...have to agree with JJ...shame to miss seeing JJ race due to your music. Just sad. (Sorry Hoss, couldn't help myself )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LX8_vTgCFE I love Gary Allan's new song "Pieces"

Dang you too Hoss...I was just about to post this one. Beat me to it. LOL Stewart may not run in triathlons...but there is a few NASCAR drivers who do. Like Jimmie Johnson! And do believe JJ does well in them as well...does well in them as well.

Hoss- I love Clint Black's music and this is one of my favorite songs by him. And just as much as I loved the song you picked out, I am absolutely positive you will love the song I have picked out...as well as this awesome video. After all, how could you not love this song or video or band?

Well Hoss for your first remark...I did read that yesterday. Just didn't have time to write or add onto it.

So Hoss...does this mean I am fired? LOL It is interesting the different way they did it...did hear someone on Facebook or somewhere talk about group qualifying but didn't know what they meant by it. Thanks Hoss for keeping us updated. I didn't get a chance to watch qualifying and have been out all day. On a side note...AJ Allmindinger won the Nationwide Series race at Road of America. Personally, I really hope that AJ will find a good Cup series ride soon...know he messed up last year, but at least he is big enough to know that too and take the proper steps to make it right. Am glad to see he won today in the Nationwide Series... We will be making right turns tomorrow . On a sad note we lost another race car driver as Allan Simonsen when he wrecked early on in the Lemans 24 hour race (the accident happened in the first hour of the race). Simonsen was only 34. Another sad day in racing...RIP Simonsen!

Thanks Roger. I enjoyed every minute of it...except for when all the rude fans began booing the Cubs for a mistake or calling them names. Don't understand what good booing anyone does, but your own team? I will never understand that...at all. It was a great game, a great day. Wish I could go back tomorrow...

You are very welcome Roger. Feel like I failed this weekend and normally if something happens to Gordon, I watch for Johnson...or just to watch. But Gordon getting taken out on the sixth lap was frustrating...and figured it was time to get out to visit my grandparents. Did get back to watch the end of the race, but it didn't end any better than it had started. For me at least. Am sure there are other people just as happy with the end...but all that is racing. Am looking forward for some road racing at Sonoma next Sunday. Very tragic about Jason Leffler. He seemed to have been a great guy, a great dad. Just so sad.

Thanks Hoss...I heard on Facebook that Kasey's wreck was pretty bad, but didn't hear how bad. Am so glad that he is OK. Sad day for all my Hendrick drivers. But am glad they are all OK. Sad Jamie Mac had a tire blow too. Just a sad race all in all. Do like Biffle but rather have a Chevy up front. Ricky's top ten will come sooner or later, Hoss. This is his first year in Sprint...give him some time.