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    Posted: February-21-2011 at 12:59pm
eric, what where you doing in coffeyville kansas(other than supporting single mothers)? you were only a stones throw from where cobalt boats are made. if you really want to see a classy joint in kansas, go to the wild wild west in salina. they are just outside of town and next door to the sale barn. if the smell of cow s@$#t and prarie skanks is your thing, this is the holy grail.
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I was surfing FOX all day and all I could find was pairs figure skating.

What can I say, it's over and now they go racing, I do feel pretty good for the Wood Brothers though, long overdue.
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until he gets into his first big smash-up, then they usually end up in the back of the pack collecting a paycheck, and they save those browned shorts as a reminder...I think thats what Dale Sr. was all about, he wanted to be out front no matter the circumstances.
I was fighting with my neihgbor about how dangerous he says racing is, and as always I came up with a good comparison, I told him you got everyday people, Coal miners, crab fishers, tower climbers, cops, fireman who risk their lives everyday for 25.00 bucks an hour...they too may go somewhere and not come back...pretty cruel but true
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So while that 2 car pushing stuff was really goofy looking, it was fun to watch and listen to that Bayne kid on radio. All day I was impressed with his respect for the veterans, yet he never seemed to be intimidated. Then on the last lap he really handled the pressure well and just ran a good race. Would have been really easy for him to choke and wreck all four of the veterans around him. For a 20 year old kid he sure was mature today!

Otherwise just some goofy racing... Wish they could see there way back to cars that aren't all the same sheet metal, yeah its safe, but hardly racing...
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the day Nascar died, it just hasnt been the same without Dale. I actually traded my number 3 shirt to a stripper up in Coffeeville Kansas at the club...thats while he was alive of course, the shirt i got in return smelled of cheap perfume...and probably had some history.
like anything else, its to controlled, and thats what dale was all about, whoever and however gets to the front....wins
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TO me it seems they missed a golden opportunity to fix restrictor plate racing at Daytona. They just spent 20 million repaving the track and I think if they would have taken some banking out in the process and make these guys drive their cars instead of just point them with their foot mashed to the floor they might have fixed the whole darn problem and gotten rid of the plates all together.

Daytona is a sacred place to Nascar and it's fans but watching the racing that's going on there this year is hard to swallow.

getting back to Dale, I know everything has to change and he was about to retire anyway but Nascar has never been the same for me. My wife and I used to go to 3-4 races a year. Before we had the camper we drove 1250 miles to Daytona in a ford Escort.

We watched Dale win his last race at Talladega, we went back to Dega the next spring but it has never been the same. Earnhart's loss had the biggest impact on the sport but I never forget the other guys we lost around that time too like Neil Bonnett, Tony Roper, John Nemachek,Kenny Irwin, Adam Petty. RIP
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kind of a closet NASCAR fan, started watching when I had "kid" duty giving the wife a break on the weekends since she watched them all week. I would lie on the couch with the baby sleeping on my chest on Saturday and Sunday afternoon, in April and May its the only sports on. I can't believe that accident was 10 years ago, but that fits, would have been my middle daughter... They increased the restrictor plate again, I am always hoping they go the other way. Would love to see an un restricted season again.
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I hear ya Marty, 10 years today. Wonder what Dale would have to say about the nonsense racing they're doing in Daytona this week. That 2 car buddy drafting is a joke.
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