That race was so cool to see live. That move made me a Ross Chastain fan.
He is one crazy, cock strong country boy right there and he just don't care. He'll wreck himself trying to win so other drivers know racing him hard is like fucking with a hornet nest trying to pass him. I love that about him but it will equally make people hate him for it.
I liked it so much I got the wrecked diecast of that car with his signature on it
thats the sour tangie, she's the only one that looks like that. smells incredible!!!! i think sour tangie is my all time favorite concentrate flavor.
five bucks?!?! now thats a deal man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i've never seen either of those two. had tickets for jett years ago but it got rained out and i couldn't make the make up date.
yeah i just don't understand bumps on a race track. the only thing i can blame it on is laziness or very poor management. the equipment that is used and the process there is absolutely no excuse for bad pavement!!! none!!! they use a fuckin laser to measure it! it just all comes down to lazy ass union workers that don't give a shit about their job or themselves! I bet 80% of union workers could never keep a real job! some of these tracks look like PENNDOT paved em!!! we have some shitty roads here and ya can't blame it all on erosion and winters!!! laziness is what it is!!!!
i was hoping they'd move it around. i'd be all for a road race to decide it all!!!!!! could you imagine how desperate drivers would get!!! and let like eight of em at it, not just the final four!!!! hell yeah!!!
i personally know three couples that don't follow nascar anymore and stopped going to races just because of stage racing and the changes that came along with it. nascar lost a lot of fans when changing the championship to new rules... at least on paper anyway. i think they lost fans for three reasons, this was one of them. toyota coming in was another, and Dale getting killed was a big one. many fans just left. all these things kinda compounded all one after the other. and add in the whole cingular, at&t, xfinity bullshit and enough was enough and fans just left!! i really wish you could have gotten to see it at a track when it was winston cup. pit passes are like dinosaurs now.. for like $75 you could get pit passes where you just hang out with the teams and families! pocono was the very first track to start ruining it they came up with the paddock pass and that started the whole deal where you can only approach drivers through a chain link fence. the following year over half the tracks went to this and cancelled pit passes.
hell yeah, but i want the alive!!!!!!! hahaha i just think they're so cool. the way they drum up, it's like an old engine starting!!!
i miss having them around!!!
It's a weird time in NASCAR. Like an out with old and in with the new thing so it has it's good and bad to it.
I like them dabbling in the international market but not at the expense of USA tracks. Like let's fix that bump[ at TMS before we're flying off to Saudi Arabia for a one off race.
One major change I'd like is get ticketmaster out of it. Sell tix thru NASCAR or at the track but cut out ticketmaster for driving up the prices on everything.
I agree on the pit passes. That's a $600 adventure now because of ticketmaster. Race tix are the same. Should be about $30-$40/seat, ticketmaster jacks it up to $90. And to make it even worse, Ticketmaster doesn't sponsor a fucking thing. All they do is take and zap away any value in fun unique entertainment. When people need to finance fucking concert tickets, that's a problem.
It seems changing some of the stage stuff would be quick an ez. Like still have stage points but no caution. They could mix that up for every track so each week there's a new and unique challenge to account for and not the same routine over and over. Some races do the caution so we get the restarts and others no caution to put immense pressure on pit crews and chiefs for performance and strategy with green flag pits.
The Clash and All Star race need a reboot. I'd mix that up and maybe combine the two making the Clash the Al Star race to start the season and add in other things making it a weekend long event then off for two weeks then into Daytona.
For that Clash and All Star, have a Saturday night dirt race in Sprints or Late models with Cup paint schemes and Cup drivers. A throwback or tribute type race. Then Sunday night a Cup car race.
More skills challenge in pit road and maybe something that gets drivers out of the cars in a sort of olympics or Revenge of the Nerds style competition......3 on 3 hoops tourney, tug of war between manufacturers, shotgunning beer contests vs fans, dunk the driver...I mean how many would line up and pay to throw a ball that sends Hamlin in the drink?
Make that opening weekend a blowout of fun shit all weekend long. Call it NASCAR fest or some shit. Bring in live music, camping, and all that stuff. Make it the Woodstock of racing.
I collected some bonus points this week. Glad you reminded me about fantasy because I spaced it and set my line up today and got that 13.
Powerball gave me 15 this week.
I made a $25 donation to the NASCAR foundation and that's worth 50 with a 13 point tier bonus.
Did the same making a nascar shop purchase buying a hat that will give me that same 63 points again.
I think every month I'll order something like a sticker or whatever just to get that 63 points per month from fanatics. You get one 50 point bonus a month from them when you by something and I don't think there's a minimum purchase so something like a sticker should get that 50 and also do it when they have a free shipping code.
I'm at 4463 right now and will tack on 126 by Sunday night. Long way to go to 15,000 still but I think it's possible.
i just had ice cream for the first time in over a year... my eyes rolled back in my head from the very first bite!! just had to share that!!
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Congrats brother!!!!
Man we found some cones for my wife she really likes. They're non-dairy and plant based since she's doing the same diet as me to make it ez and she loves them. I'm still into frozen Kind bars and the B&J Cherry Garcia non-dairy option but yeah...so nice to enjoy those treats!!
got my second cousin eddie in today... two cousin eddies?!?! not sure the world could handle that!!!! hahaha
i need to buy some fittings yet to tuck the plumbing proper, just used what i had from last year for now.. also got one small leak, i expected worse so i'm happy with it!!!
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only ever this clean once....
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gotta put the filter stuff in snots yet.... this will be the final location of my permanent stone waterfall i have yet to build!
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and not a moment too soon, water is ugly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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we'll see how it looks in a few days!!!
so i printed a better gasket for my leak and i go out there and the leak stopped on it's own!!!!
that almost never happens!! i'll take it!!! turn the water on though and fish are like hey, feed us!!! haha
That's a huge herd of happy fish dude!!!
Incredible how this pond has done so well for ya. It's gotta be because of Eddie and that shitter never being full.
been there, done that.... can't wait to do it again!!!!!!
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Some days I’d be tempted to cast in a line.
That aquaponics keeps calling me fellas.
I'm real close to doing to it again. Real close.
houston, we got a problem!!! hahaha
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