Carl Edwards races his car to its limits, fans forced to celebrate fifteenth place instead
There is no sport that drains the fun out of a championship like NASCAR. There still remains truth in the statement that it isn't over until the checkered flag waves, but entering this weekend Jimmie Johnson needed to finish merely 36th place or better to secure his third title in as many years. When the last race of the 2008 NASCAR season finished the car in 36th place was the Chevrolet of Joe Nemechek... three laps down. While Carl Edwards drove his 99 Ford on fuel vapors to a well-earned victory, Johnson was walking his car to a 15th place finish. Apparently that's how exciting NASCAR immortality is.
Now the cloud of ho-hum that has been hanging over America's motorsport grows even thicker as 2008's last hurrah can no longer hide the real news from the weekend. Read: Economic woes lurk as Johnson celebrates, weekend wrapup.
Maybe it's all Barack Obama's fault, but amongst the NASCAR gloom I feel hopeful about the hammer coming down on the asphalt ovals. Could the shake up make the 2009 NASCAR season, dare I say it, interesting?
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Hopefully, this will be the hardest post to make. I've taken a long break from blogging and it would be a major understatement to say that I miss it. I've spent a lot of time wondering how I would get back into the hobby and how I would make it an even better craft. I desired to go beyond the scope of a personal blog and pick a topic to really generate some readership.
Why would it be so important to generate a readership? Do I really have that much of an ego? Yeah. I guess I do. My personal experience means much more to me if I have you, amigos, to share in it. I've discovered that I enjoy entertaining myself so much that its my life's goal to make a living creating ways in which others can see the world I'm imagining.
But..
Am I library of baseball statistics from which one can predict hot stove trades? No. Do I have a level of prowess with video games that I can be turned to for answers when stuck deep in space fortress number five? Hardly. Do I have a new and novel approach to prime time television that warrants my opinion a closer look than any other? I dunno, you tell me.
To pick just one interest of mine to sharpen my focus and cleanly capture one particular slice of the internet pie would be to lie about who I am.
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