Pomona in one week

In one week we will be leaving for Pomona to watch the NHRA finals. I can't wait, and as it is going to be out holiday down in southern California I can't help think about the fires that are destroying so many peoples homes and upsetting their lives west of Pomona in San Diego and surrounding areas. My heart goes out to them and even though we are going to Pomona to have a fun fulled holiday in the back of mind I will be thinking about the losses those people have suffered.

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Leave My Balls Alone! Golf Balls that is

As I had hoped I took advantage of todays awesome weather as I had a golf game booked at Fox Hollow. The weather was awesome and I had my lucky shirt and pants on today, thanks honey for sewing my button back on. As I hit my first drive on the first hole it landed 10 yards away from the green. As we walked up to the green a couple of players from the third hole came to get their errand balls, except one of them was mine! So the morrow of the story is check the ball before you play it especially if it has company logos on it like mine did it should be obvious to you it is not yours. So hands off you ignorant wannabe golfers who can't find their own balls so play the first one they see, which is what they did.

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A Tale of Two Racing Legends

The comparisons between Dale Earnhardt and John Force are almost the same in that they both ave impacted their respected racing organizations they have participated in. Nascar and the NHRA. Both drivers started with nothing in the way of money and cars and financing but still raced for the fun of it, til they finally got noticed and landed big money deals. Through the years both were instrumental in creating safety improvements thru their respective organizations via various accidents and resulting research that follows. Although Dale Earnhardt is no longer with us due to his fatal accident at daytona a few years ago many safety improvements followed aftwards. (see my tribute here). Although it is sad that he is no longer with us his legacy lives on with the fans and me as well as I still have and buy Dale Earnhardt memorabilia. And recently John Force's accident in Dallas has instituted new safety upgrades on his team cars but you can bet that NHRA will institute them into other teamcars as well as in the past. After Eric Medlen's untimely passing earlier this year John Force racing added some safety improvements to their cars as well especially in the headres area for the driver.
Both drivers also have their kids following their footsteps as Dale Earnhardt Jr. has had great success in NASCAR and is just as popular as his father ever was and John Forces daughters all are rcing in NHRA competition with Ashley running Funny Cars. Their kids having the fathers that they do are just as popular as their fathers just look at Ashley forces pits and see the big crowds hanging around there.
And finally both drivers and their kids never forgot who they are or where they came from as they are all fan favorites and cater to the blue collar crowds as they can relate to them as John and Dale both came from Blue collar environments themselves. That is waht makes them so popular. Even after Dale's passing years later how many #3 stickers do you see on the back windows of cars? I know I have one! There are lots of them. And when you see John Force go down the track and blow up,catch on fire destroy a multi dollar car and lose the race and when he comes back down the return road and jump out of his chase vehicle to greet the fans with his crew taking a trashed race car back to the pits, well that is as classy as it gets!

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NLL and Patrick Carpentier

well it seems as though that the powers that be in the NLL, (National Lacrosse League) have decided to scrap the 2008 season. It seems as if the player's union wouldn't let the players vote on the new deal. For such a new league and exciting one at that, it is a shame that the two sides can't agree on a contract. I hope this doesn't compromise the future of the NLL.

Patrick Carpentier:

George Gillett who owns the Montreal Canadiens, and has bought into Ray Evernham's Nascar team to form Gillett Evernham motorsports has hired Patrick Carpentier to race in the Nextel and Busch series next season. And his number will be 10. Guy Lafleur' old number. He was preented with a jersey at the Montreal/Florida game last night and the numbers even have the evernham design on it. I think this would be a good present for me for Xmas. eh honey!

Running and the Habs

Well it seems as if the wife really wants me to run with her, so I gave up the Habs to go runinng with my wife's group. All I can say is I need a beer! Anyway as I got back and the game was still on, 1-0 HAbs. So I watched the last final minutes and then they called a penalty on Montreal with two minutes to go. Florida pulled their goalie and eventually scored on the 6 on 4 power play. The game ended up going to a shootout (the stupidist the NHL has ever done) and Florida won..........thats sucks!

Another thing that sucks is that the NLL (National Lacrosse league) hasn't come up on an agreement with the players union so the 2008 season is canceled. I tell you its going to be a long winter, no racing and no Lacrosse as hockey is too expensive to see live anymore, and good luck finding tickets for games anymore.

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