Well, slap my ass and call me Fat Penguin! We have a new team locked into the Chase boys
and girls (my wife sometimes reads this…).
Check out the win column and you’ll see that Mr. Meat… I mean Dr. Beef
is now safely in the Chase. Take a look
at all of the 2’s in that column as well.
Let’s get to it.
Top Picks:
Well lookie here… JJ is NOT in as much trouble as everyone
was saying. Idiots. The naysayers not these guys à Piston, Dust, Pursuit,
Asleep, Ideal, Shepard, and Beef all took the back to back race winner Johnson. Piston gets on the board with his 1st
win and climbs up to 4th.
Dust, Pursuit, and Asleep, go 3 wide into turn 2! All jumping up a spot (7th, 8th
and 8th) and getting their 2nd win. WOW!
Only 4 points separating these teams as they battle for that final
qualifying spot, and I’m sure they will be looking to climb way past 7th
as they eye their 3rd wins.
Ideal (10th), Shepard (11th) and Beef (12th)
are also taking it three wide, and only 10 points are separating these
guys. Ideal gets win #1 and jumps 2
spots. Shepard gets win #2 and jumps 2
spots. While Beef jumps 3 spots and more
importantly gets win #3 as stated in the opening dialogue. I told you he would be just fine as he was
doing that free fall down the leaderboard.
I hope you like it well done cause y’all did it well!
Penguin took pole sitter and runner up Keselowski. I hoped that he would have been able to start
on the front row on that last caution and try to battle Johnson for the lead,
but it was not meant to be. But I’ll
take the points and I like the 2 spot jump into 2nd place.
Chonk “This is why I’m Hot” Motorsports took Truex Jr who
finished 6th. Who would've
known that this Jersey Boy would have been such a solid pick this week??? Chonk, that’s who. His lock on 1st place got a little
tighter as he increases his lead from 26 points to 37 points.
Kiss had a nice 7th place finish from Stewart. He stays in 6th, but has a swarm
of teams within 8 points on his tail.
But if you take a look at that win column, you’ll see a nice fat 2 over
there… he’ll be just fine I’m predicting.
Graziano and Rowdy also
had a nice finish by the 8th place #22 car of Logano. Graz stays in 3rd and Rowdy stays
in 16th, but both teams are very much in the Championship picture as
we start the second half of our race to the Chase.
Eh:
A-Game took Rookie Kyle Larson who finished 11th. I obviously love this kid (Larson not A-Game…
although I probably would also love A-Game if I knew him better). He just continues to impress. I don’t know about you folks, but I have been
looking for a driver to replace my Burton and Martin picks for about two
seasons now. Stenhouse hasn’t been
consistent enough and Truex Jr. has been struggling… he was fine this week of
course… f*cking Chonk. I
don’t know why I have to be angry all the time…
And we're back...
My point is: I think Larson is that driver. I hope he continues to kick ass and become
one of the studs of NASCAR in the years to come.
A-Game is still in his Talladega mode sitting back in pack
and waiting for the big one. Then he
will need to come on strong in these last 13 races before the Chase. Wins?
Points? I guess we’ll see…
Rusty’s pick of Gordon (15th) ran well and in the
top 10 all race, but faded towards the end and seemed to be lucky to hang on
and get the 15th place finish.
Rusty drops 2 spots, but only 37 points back from 7th. Oh yeah… and he too has 2 wins.
Rasta took a strong looking #4 car of Kevin Harvick (17th). But a flat tire forced him to play catch up
the entire second half of the race. Rasta
drops a spot to 15th, and our defending Champ is in a situation
where he needs to start getting wins and/or make up the 46 point gap and grab
that 7th place spot if he wants a chance to repeat as Champ.
DOOTW:
Skidmarks (Newman, 31st ) gets our Dutch Oven
Award this week. Newman had transmission
issues that kept him from being a contender.
Skid drops from 2nd to 5th, but he is already a
Chase qualifier. I look for him to
rebound and get back towards the lead during the 2nd half of the
Race to the Chase.
BSOTW:
Damn it Empty! It was
just last week when I was talking about your wonderful race… getting that 1st
win and jumping up 3 spots to grab the 7th place spot. I was actually kicking myself for picking
Kyle Busch last week and not this week.
He wins the Truck race. He wins
the Nationwide race. He starts on the
front row in 2nd and leads the first 20-30 or so laps. A weekend sweep looked like the lock of the century…
Not so fast. Bowyer (f*cking Bowyer!)
decided or his spotter decided that it would be a good idea to do a slide job
on him for 2nd (I think) and wrecking Kyle into the wall just past
the ¼ point in the race… causing much poo to fly all over Empty’s bed with this
42nd place finish. Empty
drops 7 (holy sh*t) spots and is now down to 14th; 41 points away from
7th. Brutal week, but there is a lot of
time to bounce back.
Other Ramblings:
GO SPURS GO!!!
Pocono on Sunday… Will Johnson get another one??? I’ll be at the coast doing a little kitesurfing but will try
to post drivers before we hit the beach on Sunday if everyone gets them in.
I hope it goes like this...
And not this...
Hey look… I know it’s still early. We still have 13 races until the Chase begins
and already 24% of the league has qualified for the Chase. Beef joins the lucky few… Empty drops out of
a qualifying spot… Dust jumps in that spot… a number of teams are close to the
cut line (both above and below). It just
goes to show you how quickly things can change in this league. I don’t know, but I can only imagine that you
would sleep better if you had a GREEN 3+ in your win column. Am I right Beef, Rowdy, Skid, and Chonk????
I personally hope that all teams are able to qualify for the
Chase this year, and then we just shoot it out in the last 10 races. But if you take a look at last year, only 10
of the 16 teams would have qualified on wins alone. Only 1 team in the top 6 had less than 3
wins… only 6 qualifying spots would be available last year versus 7 this year…
and 5 additional teams would have qualified as Wild Cards. So 11 teams would have fought it out for last
year’s title…
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| 2013 Final Standings |
Now I know that strategies most likely would have been
different given the new rules, but I feel it is my job as the commissioner of
this league to provide as much insight as possible as we embark on this journey
into uncharted territory… even though it is probably meaningless and wrong, and
most likely will be of no help to anyone.
Cheers!
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