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All Purpose NASCAR Thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by jay_christley, Feb 12, 2006.

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  1. Double J

    Double J Active Member

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  2. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    Oh, I know that. My great-great-grandfather fought with the 15th New Hampshire Volunteers.

    I was just seeing what it would take to get Boom to leave.
     
  3. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    P1 +45 points.

    Representing pretty well, I'd say.

    Allow me to be the second to predict that Burton will win the Cup. Only Kenseth and Harvick still have a legitimate shot at him unless the 31 team suffers complete disaster in the final 5 races.
     
  4. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

  5. Sxysprtswrtr

    Sxysprtswrtr Active Member

    He did wear the No. 43 at North Carolina.

    I too think and hope Jeff Burton will take the title. As long as it's not a Hendrick car (paging Double J) ...

    Was surprised, though it makes a lot of sense experience-wise, to see Juan Montoya in the ARCA race today in Iowa. That'd be pretty cool to be little Steve Wallace and you're tradin' paint with a big-time driver.
     
  6. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    Did I hear my chain being rattled? :D

    I'm actually surprised I heard that, with my head stuck in the oven and all.
     
  7. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    God is in fact a NASCAR fan: Wuld Buhtun is running M'ville.

    And Mulhern may well be a good reporter, but someone PLEASE tell him that doesn't have to use eight straight paragraphs worth of quote in a sitting. I shit you not, he had a qualifying story a few years ago in which Richard Petty did a press conference afterwards, and he had a quote from the King that weighed in at 18 fucken paragraphs! I grabbed it off the Media General internal wire, what with my being a good soldier in the fight for synergy, and I was tempted to take the quote, add a shit lede and some transitions and make a 25-inch feature out of it.

    Good guy, good reporter, but I don't want to pack a lunch to read a quote.
     
  8. wickedwritah

    wickedwritah Guest

    MM, his style ain't for everyone. Personally, I like it.
     
  9. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    Tis true. I actually blame the desk to a large extent as well -- someone should be able to lasso his wanderings a little better for a paper of that size while still allowing the point to get across.
     
  10. Jeff Gluck

    Jeff Gluck Member

    Have they cut back Mulhern's travel schedule? If I remember correctly, he wasn't in Indy. It's pretty sad when budgets take away races from a beat guy like that.
     
  11. wickedwritah

    wickedwritah Guest

    That would be the last place to cut, Jeff. If it were about $$$, I'd think they'd cut out Fontana, Phoenix, Vegas and Sonoma.
     
  12. SportsGuyBCK

    SportsGuyBCK Active Member

    Yeah, they cut Mulhern's travel budget (he missed some races heading into the Chase), but it's a newsroom-wide thing at Winston-Salem ... heard through the Media General grapevine that they've had to cut $500,000 from the editorial budget for the year, and that was one of the areas they cut ... they also cut back on their Panthers writer spending the entire month in Spartanburg, S.C., for training camp (I think they only allowed him 8-9 days down there) ... the sports editor is retiring (at the end of the year I think), and he's hoping by doing that the axe won't come down any further on the sports staff ...
     
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