That is Right....

... I'm a SLACKER!! Best part about it is I admit it. Actually I'm not as big a slacker as I let on. The truth of the matter is I make no money doing this, I do make money at my job and since about the time I really slacked in writing is when I got promoted you can understand why the writing stopped.

Unfortunately like many of you my job sucks. Don't get me wrong here when I say this. I work in a hotel. I like the hotel business because sometimes I actually like people. My job sucks for many reasons, one being that I have college educated adults, and some who are much older than I am, who are on the same maturity level as my friends 3 year old son and act about that age. There are other reasons but I won't get into that here.

I do not know how much I will be able to write over the off season. It may actually be more than during times this season. I will attempt to keep up with this better and I will keep you up to date with my opinions on NASCAR happenings.

With the close of the 2007 season just hours away I did want to reflect on some happenings and take a look back on this season.

~Jimmie Johnson... excuse me I didn't mean to vomit on the keyboard. Unless he manages to do what I've been hoping for every race this year he will win the championship. In case you want to know what I hope happens it includes a blown tire, the outside wall, the inside wall, Jeff Gordon's car, and loading the car on the trailer before lap 50. Does he deserve it? I guess. He did win several races this year and has been probablly the most consistent program over the last three years, but it doesn't mean I have to like it any more than I like a root canal. I probable wouldn't mind him winning the championship this year so much if I didn't have to hear about it from the announcers every 15 minutes of a race. Lets be honest NBC has more commercials than they do race coverage so that means when they are showing cars on the track I have to endure their incessant chatter about Jimmie Johnson or something that doesn't matter while Wally and Matt take personal digs at each other. Lets remember there are 43 drivers in each race. Lets hear about them sometimes.

~NBC will not be bringing us race coverage next year, sort of. The will be with us through the agony of TBS for 6 races next year. Which they are already advertising for more than Fox is for the Daytona 500. All I have to say about this is Thank God. NBC has managed to bring us better football games on Sunday night than ESPN is at the moment. But this is because basically they inherited Monday Night Football. John Madden and Al Michaels were gold on Monday Night, they just do the same things on Sunday night now. As I mentioned before NBC has more commercial time than they do actual racing. Last week at Phoenix they showed 8 laps, commercials over the next 6, 8 more laps, then commercials for 7. I don't know what a restart looks like anymore because NBC will bring us back to racing as the leaders are headed into turn one. As a plea to FOX and ESPN/ABC please remember that viewers watch to see races not to see commercials with a little bit of racing, remember to have enough cameras to cover the track so we can actually see the beginning of an accident not have you show us halfway through the wreck, and remind me what a restart looks like.

~Toyota. Please stop saying thanks for having us. I didn't make that choice. If it was up to me you wouldn't even be in the truck series. I don't want to see you there and lets be honest you know you like the fact that Dale Jarrett will have a chance to be in every race. I hope that all the other teams get together to improve to limit how many Camarys are in the field each week.

~Earnhardt and Gordon. A year ago everyone accepted the shock that the sports biggest names were not in the Chase. Kudos to both teams for making the Chase. This doesn't mean I like Gordon. I still think at times the announcers and media in general lift him higher than he really deserved. I am a Bud brew crew fan and I'm more than pleased at the result this season. I watched the team accomplish things this year that in the past would have gotten them down and out. Jr. and his crew are given little credit in my opinion at times. He is not NASCAR's golden boy, he is a hard worker and great competitor he will be a champion and soon.

I'm gonna go watch the races this weekend. Kick back with a Budweiser. Toast the season. And sustain myself with football till February.