Life is like a jump rope and so is this freakin' league... One thing I know while sitting down to write this blog is that no one picked a winner again this week. I need to go back to last year and see what the total wins we had accumulated as a league, but I think Chonk had about 7 wins by himself by this time... This year we have 1.
Harvick dominated and is the favorite again in Phoenix this weekend, but other teams had a good Vegas race even without the win. Other teams did not... let's get to it.
TOP PICKS:
F*cking Truex Jr.! Nice to see him off to a good start... not just because I picked him. He's one of those guys that seems solid and just needs to get it going. He's from Jersey, but we won't hold that against him. No offense. Truex came home in 2nd, Graziano, Dust, Penguin and Asleep all give virtual high fives. Dust moves up 2 to 4th, Penguin moves up 3 to 6th, Graz 11th and Asleep 13th each gain a spot. Well done boys!
Kenseth (9th) picked by Beef, Piston and Empty. Empty jumps up 2 spots and is now in 2nd. Piston 10th and Beef 12th each gain a spot.
Logano (10th) picked by Rusty, Rasta and Skidmarks. Rusty, who is probably mas fluente en espanol at this point, takes the lead and has a huge 8 point lead... no way he gives that up*. Skid jumps up 2 spots to 3rd and is his natural top of the heap running position. Rasta also jumps up 2 spots to 6th and looks like he is recovering nicely from last year.
* I actually hope he doesn't give up the lead, but it is fun to throw that statement out there.
EH or DOOTW???
Shepard took Dillon who came home in 20th. Part of me feels that this is an EH... a nice gamble picking Dillon who is a promising young driver. But since he finished 10 places back from the next pick he may be the DOOTW. Either way, Shepard falls to 9th but is only 5 points back from the 8th place spot. Sofa King Early.
BSOTW:
Johnson's team must have visited the strip joints in Atlanta prior to hitting the strip joints in Vegas. He started strong but tire issues (possibly caused by some glitter residue and cheap perfume) resulted in a 41st place finish. Kiss free falls to 5th from 1st, but is still ok because he landed on that fat 1 win cushion. Ideal gets shuffled back 6 spots to 8th but is still in fine shape. Chonk falls 4 spots to 14th and Pursuit stays in 15th. Johnson was the right pick for this race, but it wasn't meant to be... I f*cking know the feeling fellas. Sorry about your bad luck, but anyone who has been paying attention knows that this league will change as we near the Chase.
Other Ramblings:
Phoenix this week on Sunday.
It's still way too early and I haven't had nearly enough beers (
WildBunchBrewing.BEER) to pontificate about any strategies that I'm thinking that will be so unbelievably wrong.
If I forget to send my pick this week to Rusty and Beef... I'm picking Harvick.*
*Unless he hits the strip joints in Phoenix and gets mugged like that Australian golfer Allenby. Did we ever figure out what really happened??? I would have just tried to keep quiet on this on Robert. My wife would have kicked my ass too, but silence is better than digging in over your head and just trying to escape via China. Unfortunately, I have been there mate.
http://mashable.com/2015/01/19/robert-allenby-kidnap/
I think we call it the champagne room in America... I guess they call it being kidnapped down under. I know I'm way off topic here and not necessarily speaking of current events, but someone please let me know WTF they think happened here.
Cheers!
