Full Throttle

Let’s get the snark out of the way first: Today’s Cheap Shot of the Day goes to The Sporting News in noting Chick-fil-A will sponsor Michael Waltrip next year. “There figures to be symmetry: Neither the company nor the driver works on Sunday.”

Ouch, that one stings!

It also carries over to this week. After a series of excellent events Mikey must have dropped, or ran over in qualifying, Cinderella’s glass slipper, he failed to make the starting line-up in Texas.

Jacques Villeneuve not only says no, but HELL NO!. Continuing the theme, Motor Mouth (or should I say Bouche De Moteur) turned in a fine 16^th in qualifying for the NCTS event at Texas for the team he does not want to own.

I wonder what it’s really like to have 340 million dollars CASH rolling around in your change purse? Really I’d like to know, as would most people.

An interesting side note to the NHIS (now NHMS I guess) purchase, Smith said at least four other entities, including Boston Red Sox owner John Henry, also were tying to buy New England’s largest sports venue. Smith said at least one potential buyer offered more money (Kentucky I bet, but it could be Henry) than he did. Bram looks into the future (H/T Dude) of what having other potential buyers might have on New England’s only super speedway.

Interesting fact of the day: By winning his first career pole Martin Truex Jr. became the 17^th driver to win a Cup pole this season, one shy of NASCAR’s modern era record set in 1997 and matched in 2001.

But I thought the mantra of “The Haters” was there is no competition in NASCAR any longer? Maybe they’re right and the rest of us just haven’t noticed Hendrick Motor Sports has 17 team members now.

For all of you who think the Chase for the NASCAR Nextel Cup is boring, did you abandon the NFL when the average score for Super Bowls 19 through 25 was 40-13? I don’t count. I surrendered when the NFL became the Numerous Felons League.