Garrett Duke

I will definately take pictures...still got some of Wrigley from last year. Though have never used Instagram before so don't know if I'd know how to do that or what it takes to do it. I can see w hy it is high ranked ballpark in photos...Wrigley is just BEAUTIFUL! Thanks...am really looking forward to the game. They just better win.

I am excited to announce that next Thursday I will be going to Chicago...to Wrigley Field...to watch my Cubs play the Detroit Tigers. My first interleague game! GO CUBS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK y'all...Kurt Busch has been at it. Again. Last year he was fired from his ride at Penske (second good cup car ride he lost due to his behavior) after cussing out one of the pit road reporters. (Plus he was cussing out his boss on the radio sometime duirng the season last season...) He found a ride with a lower funded ride this year that gets their engines from Rick Hendrick. Well on May 12 he had a run in with Ryan Newman at Darlington. Where he had spun Newman out on the track. Then when Newman was in his pit road, Kurt drove wrecklessly fast on pit road to hit Newman's car that was in his pit road. Newman's crew didn't find his speed appropriate on pit road and Kurt's crew tried to defend him. Well NASCAR fined one of Newman's crew for not following orders or something like that and put him and Newman's crew cheif on probation through the last race of June. As for Kurt they fined him and put him on probation until July 25th of this year. One may think one on probation may straighten up his act...well obviously Kurt is the exception. He had a brush up with Justin Allgaier in the Nationwide Series race on the first lap or so Saturday. They both talked about it right after the race and when the reporter asked Kurt about what was said he blamed Justin for racing hard early in the race and made a comment about how he can't even pick his nose wrong now that he is on probation. Then later on SPEED or a SPEED reporter was asking him a question and Kurt said "the only thing preventing him from beating you (reporter) up for asking stupid questions is that I am on probation...and even saying that is probably wrong." (I reworded it...full story here: Kurt Busch). Well NASCAR has found that Kurt has violeted a rule in the book that states against verbal abuse of a reporter. Kurt Busch is now on probation through December 31 of this year and is now SUSPENDED from all track activities in POCONO next WEEKEND. The last driver NASCAR had suspended was his brother, Kyle, last year after he had retaliated against a Ron Hornaday Jr in the truck race...Ron was contending for the championship and Kyle took him out of it. Kyle was suspended for the following Nationwide Series and Sprint Cup race. BTW Kurt drives for his younger brother Kyle in the Nationwide Series race... I have to be honest here...am not a fan of Kurt Busch due to his attitude. (Sorry Roger...knew you liked him last year. Aren't you glad you changed drivers? HA HA) Am really glad that NASCAR has FINALLY stepped up to the plate on this with Kurt Busch. After losing two GOOD rides due to his attitude and behavior, I'd have thought he would be working hard on changing in order to earn a better ride for next year. Apparently, I was wrong. So maybe NASCAR suspending him, may give him the extra push of motivation to change his behavior. (All of that last paragraph is of my opinion...wrong or right, it's my opinion. )

Jeff Gordon finished a disappointing thirteenth after having the fastest car...by the sounds of it. Him and JJ. Sounds like he got caught on pit road due to a debri caution and a loose wheel somewhere along the way. David Ragen...who was on my fantasy team...he finished 21st. Sorry to say don't know if something happened to him or if he just had a mediocre type car. I went to my uncle's birthday party so I missed most of the race. Hopefully we both will have drivers finishing in the top five next Sunday at Pocono. It will be on Sunday at 1:00 EST...on TNT.

Well I got to see the first ten laps on tv and listened to about a hundred or so on the radio. There was a 13 car accident on lap 9 that put Tony Stewart, Juan Pablo Montoya and others in the garage. Stewart and Dave Blaney came out after many laps...it red flagged the race for twenty minutes. Here is the top ten finishes: 1. Jimmie Johnson 2. Kevin Harvick 3. Matt Kenseth 4. Dale Earnhardt Jr 5. Clint Bowyer 6. Aric Almirola 7. Martin Truex Jr 8. Joey Lagano 9. Kasey Kahne 10. Marcos Ambrose

Sounds like you'll fit right in General. Welcome to HNet. Always great to meet new Dukes of Hazzard fans!

This is my all time FAVORITE Christian song...LOVE THIS SONG. Don't know what it is about it, but I can be in the worst mood or having the worst day and this song comes on the radio, it turns it all around. Saw these guys in concert and they are great...got Robbie's autograph as well as another band member and was able to tell him what this song means to me. Just awesome.

Sprint Cup will be racing at Dover tomorrow...be the last time on FOX. Mark Martin and Jimmie Johnson will be on the front row to start the race...sadly I will not be able to watch all of it due to a birthday party. But maybe this way, Jeff Gordon will earn his first win of the season...LOL. But will read up on it and will let y'all know what happens the best that I can. Hate missing races...especially when they are on FOX. Wish they could stay on Fox all season long...

Another favorite Country artist of mine.

Wish I could say I was going...sadly I can't say that.

"Put you in a Song" Keith Urban Another song that I love...by another favorie Country artist.

LOVE THIS SONG! Love Tim's music...each album is different from each other. Different style and yet still great. Of course my opinion. Tim McGraw is in my top three favorite Country artists (Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Tim McGraw) and remains to be one of my favorites that I have yet to see in concert. Perhaps one day...continue to love his music.

"You'll Think of Me" Keith Urban Love Keith Urban's music. He puts so much emotion into each song...especially this song. He sounds so sad in this song...especially when he sings it live.

Gotta love ol' Waylon!

I know you tease. You tease cause you care, right? (As Chris Meyers of NASCAR on FOX says). LOL. I have nothing agaisnt your Pirates either...except when they play the Cubs and they play as unfair as they have played the past three games. HA HA. Fans to teams like the Cubs and Pirates show one quality the best and that is loyalty. Definately not a bandwagon fan...LOL. Spose Dukes fans are just like that as well. I think I did happen to notice that small statistic you just pointed out...after the Indy race I watched the last half of the CUBS game. Cubs are in a bad slump...12 games in a row. Now they'll turn it around and win 12 in a row. It could happen...

Well Roger I have to admit...when I went to bed last night I had thought that about my post and how I didn't post Ragen's place. Would have done it today but you beat me to it. And no, it has nothing to do with Ragen being in the top ten. Sorry. Ragen is a good kid and a good driver if he had a better set of wheels underneath him. But since you want to get get technical with stats and all that...well here you are: David Ragen is 26 years old with one win under him right now. Did learn that his dad, Ken Ragen use to drive too. David Ragen That is where I got my info at. Ragen has one win, 31 top tens, and two poles for the Sprint Cup Series. Vs Jeff Gordon who started in what is now known as the Sprint Cup Series (Winston Cup back then) when he was 21 years old. His first race, was Richard Petty's last race. His first race was in 1992 in Atlanta. First full season was 1993 where he finished 14th in points. In 1994 he won his first race at the same track, same race we raced last night (Coca Cola 600. Charlotte). The longest race...he won his first race at. At the age of 22 and a half years old. Jeff Gordon Where I got Jeff Gordon's info...interesting page. As of right now in Gordon's career...he has 85 wins, 398 top tens, 71 poles Well in order for your Ragen to catch up to Gordon...he needs 84 more wins, 367 more top tens, and 69 more poles. Jeff Gordon will be 41 on August 4th of this year...that leaves David with 15 years to catch up with Gordon (which is 540 more races plus 24 more races this year). Gordon may be a bit older, but he is not Jesse's age nor is he slowing down any. That'd be Mark Martin who is 53 years old...be 54 next January.

Well Roger, since you had such a great baseball weekend, I will not feel bad in bragging that all my Hendrick boys had a better finish than poor Ragen. For the longest race of the season...thought it was a good race all in all. Only one accident brought out a caution with Travis Kvapil and two or three for debris. Not much excitement accident wise, but it was a great race all in all. Greg Biffle led a lot of laps, but faded a bit towards the end. Tony Stewart had a pretty rotten race. Was having bad luck that turned bad when Brad Keselowski hit him in the back on pit road. Tony got mad and did a spin out on a busy pit road. Lucky for him he didn't hit anyone else. Jeff Gordon started 23rd but was quick to make it into the top ten before he got off pit cycles but won the lucky dog to get back onto the lead lap. And for the first time in five races, he gets a top ten finish...coming home seventh! Not the win I always hope for, but with all the bad luck he's been plagued with, it feels like a win to me. Jimmie Johnson had a good first half of the race and could have had a great finish but on the last pit stop, the tire changer dropped the car back on track (their signal for the driver to go), before the gas man had the gas can out of the tank. So JJ took off with the gas can still attached and still held on by the gas man. The gas man finally fell pretty hard and JJ got hit with a penalty to put him a lap down. A eleventh place finish for the 48 team . Not too bad all things considered, but unknown for his team. Kasey Kahne went on to win his first race for Rick Hendrick. 16th different driver to win for Rick Hendrick...his third Coca-Cola 600. Here is the top ten finishes: 1. Kasey Kahne 2. Denny Hamlin 3. Kyle Busch 4. Greg Biffle 5. Brad Keselowski 6. Dale Earnhardt Jr 7. Jeff Gordon 8. Kevin Harvick 9. Carl Edwards 10. Matt Kenseth Rick Hendrick had all four of his drivers finish in the top eleven and Jack Rousch had all three drivers finish in the top ten.

Happy Memorial Day...hope you all have a fun and safe three day (for all who have Monday off...) weekend. Thank-you to all who has served or is serving for our great country. Thank-you for your service and for ALL that you have done. THANK-YOU!

Well I listened to the Tom Jones version of the song and only the beginning of the other one so I don't have much say in which one is the best. But do believe I like Tom's voice in his version a tad better than the other guy's voice. The song has a sad touch to it. Very emotional. Like the Hank William's reference...