2009 NASCAR running thread

Anyone else find it funny that someone with the handle "Shoeless Joe" is siding with a league on an indefinite suspension?

 

That was gonna be my next point. Ever hear of the 1919 Chicago White Sox? They were cleared by a jury but still were kicked out for life. Betting on baseball is perfectly legal in any casino in Las Vegas. What happens to a Major Leaguer if he goes in and lays down a $10 bet on a game? He's banned for life although he didn't commit a crime. I'm not arguing for or against suspensions. I'm arguing against the legal system undermining a pro sports organization's authority to create and enforce it's own rules.

How do we know Mayfield was unfairly punished? I think both his A and B samples came back positive.

I brought up Casey Martin earlier. That was a crock, too. Does it suck for the guy? Yeah. But for good or bad, the PGA decided riding a cart was against its rules. Riding golf carts is perfectly legal, but there is a difference between laws and rules.

Participating in a sporting event is a privilege, not a right.

 

The law trumps rules. We have come a little ways socially since 1920, when that miserable prick Landis was just as concerned with keeping black people out of baseball as he was the Black Sox. Casey Martin DID get to play, because the court said so.
The law is far from perfect. But it sure has a better record than NASCAR.

 

Mayfield will not drive either the 36 or the 64 this weekend (64 actually has a sponsor, who balked on Mayfield) and didn't make an extended deadline of 3 p.m. to get his team to the Daytona Beach garage area this weekend.

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Probably not a bad non-move ... lets the air clear a little bit.

 

Lost me right there. :

 

Nice, fair points.

 

So we're watching the Grand Am race at DIS on Speed ... and are laughing at Kyle Busch's vague attempt to drive a Ganassi-owned Daytona Prototype. He blew the backstretch chicane on the opening lap and just did it again on lap 33.

The other Ganassi car (the 01 primary car) just blew a tire at the transition from the infield road course to the high bank in NASCAR turn 2.

 

did Daytona not open the backstretch grandstands, or were they unable to sell tickets.

 

Holy shit.

What a finish.

 

Nice one Stewart.

 

Busch's fault for cutting back across. I thought for a minute it was Stewart's doing.

 

I don't like owner Tony. Driver Tony would have said Busch deserved it and was a sniveling little douche.