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May 11, 2008 |
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Happy Mother's Day!
by Carol Einarsson |
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 I thought about what to write for today, but as I was pondering, I received an email that is the embodiment of what it is to be a mom. I don't know who wrote it, but if you're a mom, I know you'll appreciate it. Happy Mother's Day! Author unknown We had this great 10-year-old cat named Jack who just recently died. Jack was a great cat, and the kids would carry him around and sit on him and nothing ever bothered him. He used to hang out and nap all day long on the mat in our bathroom. We have three kids, and at the time of this story, they were 4 years old, 3 years old, and 1 year old. The middle one is Eli. |
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May 08, 2008 |
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He Who Must Not Be Raced: A Kyle Busch Fan's Perspective
by Guest Contributor: Mary Beth Voelker |
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 People keep griping about Kyle Busch's attitude. Well, what sort of attitude do you expect him to have after the way fans have treated him for the past six years? If Kyle Busch has a chip on his shoulder and a tendency to get defensive it's no wonder. People have been booing at him for as long as he's been in NASCAR -- just because he had the wrong last name and drove for the wrong owner. If his name was Kyle Smith and he'd started with Gibbs instead of Hendrick he'd be everyone's darling for his talent, his humor, and his sense of fun. Instead, he's been chained to a load of undeserved baggage from the start. Kyle knows that nothing he has ever done has made any difference in the booing -- it started before people even knew who he was as an individual and has continued no matter what. He makes a mistake and wrecks, people boo. He makes a daring pass and wins, people boo. He gives the purse from his first Cup win to the hurricane victims, people still boo. If you treated a dog that way -- beating him for obedience and defiance alike -- you'd create a vicious and untrustworthy biter. |
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May 06, 2008 |
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A Promise Fulfilled
by Carol Einarsson |
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CHEERS to the National Anthem performed in a way that made me feel patriotic and like I was at a July 4th parade.
CHEERS to THE BEST filmed fly-over ever. I don't know if it was the best flyover or if it was just the best camera angle ever, but it was magnificent! CHEERS to Dan Lowry livin' the dream. He's got the race, he's giving the command (and probably could have done so without benefit of the microphone), and his name will forever be tied to this race in the history books. CHEERS to Emmys all around! CHEERS to Denny on the pole at his home track. It's always fun to show off for your friends. And eat home-cooked meals at home, too. CHEERS to Michael Waltrip and Jeff Gordon starting side by side. |
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May 03, 2008 |
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Racin' Deal or Punk Racin' ?
by Carol Einarsson |
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Some will say Kyle Busch got loose. Others think that was a convenient way to wreck the leader. There's no denying that any ground he's made up in the PR department has now been lost. What do you think? (Until Bill fixes what I just broke, click on the "continue reading" link to vote.) |
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May 02, 2008 |
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What's Your Beef? Eight Seconds of Negligence
by Carol Einarsson |
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Carol, I noticed you've edited your comment on Ms. Renshaw. Any particular reason you removed a certain descriptive phrase? I don't know anything about either racer, nor am I connected with either. I'm just curious. For as outspoken as you are in your columns, I was surprised that it had changed between this morning when I first saw it and lunchtime. -SM (For those readers who didn't notice the first comment I posted at 4:35 am, I'd originally used the phrase, "no-talent vehicular-manslaughterer Deborah Renshaw." After sleeping for three hours, I awoke to put the beast out and then reread my post. I removed three words, among them the harshest that you may have noticed are no longer included in comment #3 in the CHEERS and JEERS section.) SM, Hmmm... Well, I don't really know. Except it's maybe the dead-horse philosophy. I've made it quite known to anyone that was reading my stuff around that time that I think she should have been charged with vehicular manslaughter. Her actions (or inactions) were about as negligent as it gets. There was just no excuse whatsoever. So her spotter claimed he couldn't see. There were other teams that had spotters in the same position as hers, and yet those drivers managed to slow down and yield to the flashing caution lights. |
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April 31, 2008 |
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Andy Hillenburg
by Carol Einarsson |
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I like that your racing career includes everything from quarter midgets to the Indy 500, and from ARCA to Cup, with everything else in between! I like that you seem to be a genuinely happy guy, with one of those smiles that comes easy and often. I like that you were an IROC test driver. I like that you have a big family, with four kids whose initials are A, B, C, and D. I like that you were responsible for providing all the cars for the ESPN movie "3", and that you and your team found and/or built more than sixty race cars for the film. I like that your nickname is Indiana Andy. I like that when you first moved to Charlotte, you found a place to stay - sleeping in Ken Schrader's shop. I like that your first Cup start happened in the first full year of Cup racing that I watched as a new race fan. I like that you've driven the #28 car, even if only while testing for RYR. I like that you're an A-Feature winner at Eldora. |
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April 29, 2008 |
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Rename it the Car of Talladega!
by Carol Einarsson |
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CHEERS to the best nickname change ever, calling Jimmy Spencer "Senior Excitement", but JEERS to Jimmy taking leave of his senses and suggesting that DEI might be a place for Tony to be able to race and share in ownership.
CHEERS to DW up on stage with Toby Lightman and looking like he's having the time of his life. Y'know, I wonder if there's any greater blessing than to enjoy your life as much as Darrell Waltrip enjoys his. JEERS to Kevin Lepage. Yes, I know this is the Cup column, but that was one of the dumbest things I ever saw anyone do in a race car. Behind every successful man is a good woman, and why he ignored her advice is anyone's guess. However, CHEERS to Kevin Lepage being man enough to apologize to the drivers, the fans, the owners, and NASCAR upon reviewing the tape. |
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April 25, 2008 |
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Where's the (Official) Beef?
by Carol Einarsson |
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How 'bout those rumors swirling around Smoke? When Gibbs made the move to Toyota, JD made sure to tell us that he had talked it over with all the drivers and they wouldn't have made the change if everyone in the family wasn't good with it. I wonder if Tony was trying to play nice, but now misses Chevy too much to continue.
And I wonder if he's a package deal. I can't hardly imagine Tony in any other color than Home Depot orange (it's bolder than eggplant, y'know), and without Zippy? I wonder where Bobby Labonte will end up next year. My money's against a Childress jump. Maybe he'll stay with Petty after all. They're narrowing the holes again for the restrictor plates. I wonder what a race at Talladega would look like if they just got out and pushed their cars. It would probably be too fast for NASCAR and they'd announce that the next race the cars would be pushed with the emergency brake on. Tums instant dissolve powder. Am I the only one that thinks of that and imagines Pixie Stix in the pharmacy aisle? |
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