NASCAR running thread

Re: 2011 NASCAR running thread

Not sure what you mean, IJAG ... and not interested in arguing religion, either. But I don't think I'd read too much into the fact that, for the umpteen-billionth time, some poor soul with feet of clay stumbled in the midst of trying his best.

 

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What I'm saying: I think it's RIDICULOUS that there's an invocation to begin with. I think it's even MORE ridiculous that people care what gets said during it. I think it's horrific it happens. So when I laugh at an invocation, it's with a "this is what you get when you invite religion into your sport needlessly" take to it.

The national anthem gets played everywhere, so it's more standard. People everywhere identify that with a sporting event (which I also disagree with, but whatever, that ship has sailed). So when it's outside the norm, it gets judged more harshly.

 

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Gotcha ...

 

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What's a little more disturbing to me about the invocation is that in no other sport do you start with a plea to a higher power that nobody die a gruesome death today.

 

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Well, their odds ARE a little higher than, say, soccer.

 

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Well, I don't know if that's quite the way they put it: "And, Lord, if you should see fit to call one of these drivers home, please let his earthly remains be largely unmarred, so at the funeral home we can all say, 'Boy, he looked good!' "

 

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Well, they do it right before the anthem, so it's easier to just broadcast the whole thing than to shut the announcers up after the invocation but before the anthem.

 

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With no touch of sarcasm, Jamie Little just said "What a humble driver" about Paul Menard.



Seriously.

 

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The radio crew was saying what a "nice" and "great" guy Menard is. I missed that memo.

 

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It's easy to be humble when dad is paying the freight and keeping your career alive well past the point anyone else's would be.

I had no qualms with Paul when I covered him in his early days, but his dad is one of the all-time biggest cocksuckers in human kind.

 

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My Paul Menard experience:

Last year, we were doing a Driver of the Week thing for Nationwide. We had him scheduled for a week in September. I was at the Richmond race. We had gone back and forth with his people for some time, so I grabbed him in the garage.

Me: Hey Paul, our people have been talking and we're going to try to get this DOW thing done. So can I just talk to you real quick so I have the interview to write the story?
Paul: Can you get me an in-car camera?
Me: That's not our call, that's up to Nationwide.
Paul: Get me an in-car camera and I'll talk to you. Otherwise, it's not worth my time.

*walks away*


Seriously. Paul Fucking Menard turned down a story last year. So yeah, "humble" my ass. Not worth your time?