| My first "Told ya so"... Asunta's so used to me being wrong, she'd already thawed the crow. I'm havin' her fry it up though. A little imagination and lots of salt and I'm savorin' a Victory Chicken.... I hadn't really prepared a speech. I don't know where to start. I wanna thank my keyboard, my hard drive. And I couldn't & done it without the Windows 98 crew....They gave me the application that I needed to bring this Gateway Intel 300 up to the front....Wanna thank my 64K RAM, my monitor for the great resolution. And the boys back at Altec Lansing for the great tunes while I typed. Let's see. Is that everybody? Now if ya'll'll excuse us. Ward & I have some hat-swappin' and pitcher-takin' to do....(yes, I said "ya'll'll") Took a few turns of the key to get this race cranked. 3 cautions in the first 20 laps. And all of em' involvin' our drivers. Let's see how Jim saw it.... Dave - Your boy Sterling sent 'em twirlin' on Lap 2. Clipped Park's Pennzoil and Front row Joe eats the turn two wall. Schrader & Terry dance down low and it looks to be a long race.. Lori - Rusty brown noses the rear end of the Irwin car on lap 8 and the 42 phones home. That hooligan in the Holigan car (Nadeau) and Irwin learn not to get in front of Rusty. Yet another "told ya so" Doc - Colonel Musgrave ain't got a Clue. (in the observatory with the rope) He slices off into the the wall on lap 17. Everybody pits. And then everybody passes Martin when he stalls it. It's called a clutch Mark. Kim - I'll be damned if the 6 car didn't make all those spots back up by lap 50. Got past Rusty and kept climbin'. Thank goodness his pit crew is so slow. He mighta won this thing. The Eel River Racing team's Viagra car hits the wall outta turn 2. (Eel.....Viagra......C'mon!!!) While in the pits, some gourmet chef with a helmet takes a ride on the back of the Pressley car. The gasman (in a reynolds wrap apron) was tryin' to get an adjusting wrench outta the 77 car. Took a two lane tumble down pit road but stayed in the game. The "Instigator" starts powerin the 3 car towards the front. So does Jeff Burton and a pack of clouds. It starts mistin' on the cars and the weather looks threatening. Jeff Burton finally starts slippin' back some and the sun comes out. Tell me he ain't part Hopi. Everybody finally gets 'em dialed in and the race stays pretty clean til Junior slaps the backstretch wall bout 2/3 of the way through it. Ward's coasted home from there. Those 8 second pit stops helped too. Mollie - ESPN had a couple of shots of A.J.'s car....Every time Ward lapped him. Trickled back slowly through the race. 6 laps down in 32nd at the end. Think AJ will hit an old man? Ted - I saw Jeff Gordon lead a couple of different times and then the next time I saw him he was on a lawn mower and Brooke was tellin' him he missed a spot. Quietly fell from 1st to eighth. Least he got TO the finish line this time. This is his first finish on the lead lap. Tony - Rusty banged out the dents and brought the car he wrecked last week in Atlanta. What's he bringin' to Bristol. That Talladega tumbler? Never could get up into the top ten. Climbed to 16th from all the way back in 20th....Great race Rusty. Doc - Twenty Stewart hangs around up front all day and runs 4th. Musgrave goes to Maaco and comes back out in time to beat Darrell Waltrip. Jeff & Stacy - Will Gordon ever(nham) see the checkered again? What about this long losing streak loom(is)ing over his head? Who's the brain(ainbow warriors)s behind the team now? Paul got his new #6 key ring/money clip combo this past week. It's cool the way you can turn it upside down and see where Mark'll finish each race. And the money clip holds much smaller wads of cash... Michael Waltrip shifted into 4th around lap 2 and never changed gears again. Restarts with only one gear become 3 or 4 lap events. Finishes 32nd. Only cars he beat were the one's involved in wrecks. Dave - Sterlin' took a 'Rusty-esque' climb through the field. 28th to 21st. Here's to the beer wagons!!! Headin' to the tilt-o-whirl over in Bristol next week. And while I'm on this short-lived hot streak, let me go ahead and predict a name change for those high banks.....BRUSTOL. There! Consider yourselves Foyt-slapped with the white gaunlet. Damn this Chicken is good. Jim |
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