Atta boy! Jab and twist. Gotta like that, especially in a few weeks when you’ll be sucking hind tit. 
As the proud holder of Richmond tickets for the last five years, I say nonsense.
The fall race wouldn’t be as exciting as it is if it weren’t the last race before the chase. Not that it isn’t balls out in May, but in September, it’s even more crazy since the difference between 20th and 21st could mean and has meant a spot in the chase.
AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!
I forgot to update my picks, and had my group C guy selected, and he wasn’t even in the damn race! I could have picked up another 80+ points, if I had remembered to log in and select the guy who WAS in the race! 
That’s ok though, I’ve made up 70 points before, and I’ll do it again!
Damn work and it’s blocking of fantasy sports sites!
Time for the weekly update!
(I didn’t do so good.)
1 Pit Bunny Racing --122, 328 =450
2 Shark Week! --230, 219 =449
3 Boggette’s Team --136, 268 =404
4 ButlerCo Racing --156, 245 =401
5 RM Racing --150, 242 =392
6 Caution Creator --126, 235 =361
7 Carp of Tomorrow --220, 137 =357
7 Fastlane --200, 157 =357
9 Robot Chicken Racing --102, 254 =356
10 Checkered Demon --170, 185 =355
11 Yellow’s Not So Bad I Guess. --164, 183 =347
12 Make It Stop Racing --0, 181 =181
Nice job for Pit Bunny Racing, good turn around from last week.
And congrats to Make It Stop Racing who just joined us this week and is already in 12th place!
And I dropped like a stone (Fastlane), but remember, I’m saving my drivers. 
DAMN YOU HARVICK! :smack: HOW DARE YOU GET A FLAT WITH 6 TO GO???
Had to have been shrapnel from the 00 car, right? Lord, what a lick he took on that. Any word on how many concussions he suffered?
Little late, but I just joined.
Welcome aboard! It’s never too late, you can easily catch up with a couple lucky weeks.
Proud “owner” of **Pit Bunny Racing ** checking in for mild gloat and get-to-know-you-type post. It was clearly a photo finish (1 point), but a win is a win is a win. I want to thank the drivers, the crews and the sponsors…<end gloat>
I was very concerned after week one–where I had both Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch. I thought my curse was continuing. Curse you ask? What curse? The “get picked by Pit Bunny and you get a DNF. Or die. Or both” curse. Only once before did I allow myself to participate in a “pick-a-driver” type contest. I started off by choosing Dale Earnhardt for the 2001 Daytona 500. Set the tone for an ongoing debacle in which I ended up with the worst total in the history of the pool. I did, however, win the “sausage”–a coveted prize recognizing that it took the brains of a sausage to make the choices I did.
I figured, half a decade was enough time to shake the curse. We’ve seen Childress racing re-emerge, so what the heck, I’d take the risk. Week one had me scared. For now, I’ll take my moment in the not-so-wild California sun and prepare to drift (plunge?) back into obscurity.
Also, just so there are no surprises, **Make it Stop Racing ** belongs to my 16-year old. He’s a long-time Bobby Labonte fan, while I tend to follow Matt Kenseth, since I remember him from local races and live not far from his hometown. He (my son, not Matt) asked me to let you know how glad he is that Demo joined up. It’s tough to get in contention after failing to qualify for a couple races, but I’m sure the two of them can do it.
I watched the Winston Cup religiously from about 95-99 or so, but then I didn’t have cable most of the time in between then and now, so I’ve only seen a few races in pubs and whatnot. With the recent purchase of a new widescreen HD LCD TV we decided to get cable and of course, racing followed(yay I get to watch the TDF this year too) so the LA race is the first race I’ve seen in quite a while(wow we have TWO Cup venues in CA now, woot), or at least the first one I’ve seen that I’ve payed attention to. Wow, Toyotas, new pit road rules, new tracks, lots of other new rules, lots of new drivers and of course new name, heh. I’m looking forward to getting immersed back into the sport. I’ve never played any kind of fantasy sports but from reading the rules and the posts here I think i understand it pretty well. Looks like good times. 
I not only had Stewart and Busch in week 1, I had Khane this week. How’s that for a good start to a curse?
I’d bet that’s exactly right. He was pretty much toast in the moments after the crash, Mrs. Butler & I were very concerned watching the broadcast!
Apparently, he really just got the wind knocked out of him, and appears to be all right. Or so says Mikey in Inside Nextel Cup, but that has to be one of the hardest hits we’ve seen in quite a while. Thank god for safer barriers, and his HANS device!
DW and Mikey both have a vested interest in that, though. Mikey owns the team and DW probably has some cash tied up there, too. Of course thry’re going to spin and downplay the extent of the injury, if only to put the sponsors (and probably NASCAR) at ease. Dominos, Toyota, Waltrip and others have a lot of money invested in this guy. If he’s truly injured and can’t race, there’s money to be lost. And he’ll also be a liability on the track if he is allowed to race injured.
Watching the replays, with his spotter saying “You okay? Hurry up and get out, you’re on fire” Reutimann did not move. Spotter said at least twice “Talk to me David” and got no response. If he truly just had the wind knocked out of him, I’m confident that there’d have been more movement than there was. In fact, I’m willing to bet he lost consciousness at least twice. After the hit, his head was slumped forward (unconscious, IMO) then he did something with the shifter, then was motionless again for a couple seconds (unconscious again, IMO), even after being told the car was on fire twice. Winded or not, a racer will make an effort to get out of a fire. There didn’t seem to be as much of an effort as I’d have expected. He still looked pretty dizzy on his feet on the walk to the ambulance. I know he slammed a wall at 180+, but that was a sleepwalk, not a winded walk.
I’m not criticizing the guy, and I can’t imagine the punishment his body had just taken, but his actions seemed even more groggy than Jr’s when he wrecked that Corvette a couple years ago, and it turned out he had a concussion and lost consciousness. That’s why I’m not buying the “just winded” excuse.
Congrats on the week.
BTW, gloating is only allowed if you do it excessively.
We have a long-standing family rule known as the “3-second gloat rule.” Essentially, you can gloat as much as you want, leaping, screaming, in-your face gloating. As long as you stop after 3 seconds. Believe me, I used my the entire allocated 3-seconds when I learned of upcoming TWO WEEK stint at the top of the leaderboard.
This season’s going to be quite difficult to handicap in the early going. The Childress teams look pretty stout, but everything else is wide open. In addition to the usual crop of rookie drivers and team changes, there are the new Toyotas, the switch from leaded to unleaded fuel (which likely had something to do with the early exits by Kahne and the DEI teams at Fontana), and looking ahead, the introduction of the Car of Tomorrow at Bristol. So more than ever, anyone can win in this league.
At least that’s what I’m telling myself affer scoring a dismal 137 points at Cali.
29car,
I’d probably agree with that. I’m also fairly certain from the video that he was certainly “out of it” if not completely blacked out for a few moments.
The walk I attribute more to a bumb foot, rather than lingering effects.
Either way, I’m glad for the equipment, and a reasonable outcome so far.
I almost would have, too, but it looked to me more like a drunk side-stagger than a limp.
But, yeah, 6 years ago, he’d probably have been cut out of that car and probably not have gotten to the ambulance under his own power. Between this wreck and Bowyer being able to casually toss his driving gloves into his car last week as if he meant to finish like that, the safety side of the sport just continues to amaze.
I realize this is late, but hey, I just got home from Vegas. Everyone bow to your new points leader! I need to enjoy it while I can!
Seems like a good time for a bump (and maybe some attendant paint-swapping)…
I just wanted to say that I’m really glad I started this fantasy team (Shark Week). I’ve been an extremely casual NASCAR fan for about five years, mainly because my brother likes it so much and I wanted to be able to talk to him about it.
But having this team has made me get more involved in watching the races, and keeping up with developments and such; honestly, I’m enjoying this a lot more than I thought I would. I spent most of today in the law library, writing a riveting seminar paper on a due-process analysis of the Texas Advance Directives Act; but the whole time I had a Firefox window open with ESPN’s “Race Tracker” keeeping me upated. (I was trying not to start shouting when J.J. Yeley was leading for a few laps.)
I tried a fantasy football team for the first time last season, but didn’t like it much, and now I see why: I already cared too much about football for my fantasy team to be anything but a distraction. With NASCAR, though, it’s given me a whole new level of interest in the sport.
So thanks, Uncommon Sense, for starting this; I’m enjoying the hell out of it.
(And yeah, it helps that I have, miraculously, been in either the #1 or #2 spot all season so far.)