May the best team win.
It's so easy to say isn't it? It's a lot harder to mean it. That thought dawned on me yesterday morning when [in reference to Nominating the best best blogs for this...], sarahk said this...
er, ok. maybe best new blog. TGOM said “may the best blog win”, but i disagree: may I win.
Everyone one says may the best man win. And everyone who says it fits into two categories: those who believe themselves--or their team--to be the best man, and those who are lying.
As life happens to me, I was readily dealt an opportunity yesterday afternoon to learn which category I fit into. And whaddaya know? I'm a liar, or at the very least an omitter.
When I said may the best team win the NASCAR Nextel Cup Championship, what I really meant was, may the best team win, as long as it isn't the #97. Yes I've been pouting--and not even because the #8 team didn't win. But because the #97 did--and I must confess, it's taken me approximately 30 hours to come to terms with this... Never this season was I more gleeful over a mishap as when I saw Kurt Busch's tire rolling down the track. And when he had a realllllllly long pit stop. And then another. But then somehow he managed to still work his way far enough to the front to manage an 8 point standings lead. Never have I rooted harder for this year's sentimental favorites, the #24 and #48. And wouldn't it have been nice to see the Mark Martin win a championship after all these years?
So whatever, the best team won. But I'm not happy about it. At all. I have however moved into the acceptance phase. And even though I still dislike the driver, I respect the #97 team--even the driver, but only because his performance commands it, I most certainly still do not appreciate his attitude.
Of course, I take much pleasure in the fact that this year the best team also won this...
Truex helps Earnhardt Jr. earn coveted title
Martin Truex Jr.'s fourth-place finish Saturday at Darlington Raceway gave Dale Earnhardt Jr. the first of two series championships he covets this year. Truex, with the help of a bad day by Busch Series runner-up Kyle Busch, wrapped up the title with one more race remaining in the 2004 season and gave Chance 2 Motorsports, co-owned by Earnhardt and his stepmother, Teresa, their first championship.
Way I see it, best man still won--just maybe not everything he was hoping for. But that'll be the end of my pouting.
Afterthought on this...
How long before the looney left stops pouting about the election and moves into the acceptance phase of this...?
yeah, i don't like kurt busch, but his team fought tooth and nail throughout the chase and came out on top. when that wheel fell off, i said to my wife "well, he's out". the 8 team needs to move some focus off of their plate-race cars to the cars that jr drives on these flat, fast tracks (ks, miami, fontana, etc), as these speedways tend to be the achilles' heel for dale. and about the points system. i thought the new system was supposed to focus on winning rather than consistency. 97 had three wins, 48 had eight. jimmie placed well, in addition to winning a bunch. i think the only way to fully reward the winners would be to give the winner 200 pts and the second place guy 180.
joe
Posted by: joe | November 23, 2004 at 07:38 AM
[i thought the new system was supposed to focus on winning rather than consistency]
As long as the non-winning driver can still leave the race with more points than the winner, NASCAR's new system doesn't focus on winning either.
I really don't understand their reluctance to award the race winners winner's points--even before this year. +5 bonus for leading a lap, +5 for leading the most laps, where's the bonus for winning? They need to make that +10 so that regardless, the winner always leaves with more points--or at least tie?
Can't they add or what?
Posted by: tallglassofmilk | November 23, 2004 at 08:30 AM
Our own Puck Punk attempts to borrow from NASCAR for help with the NHL's financial woes after being a witness at Darlington Raceway.
Posted by: Chain Gang | December 13, 2004 at 10:29 AM