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Paelos
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Yep she's already crashed again in the Nationwide.
So that's two cars she's managed to ruin now in this weekend.
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Yeah, but she's hawt.
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I won't lie, I think she cleans up pretty good. I'm generally not bothered by the media over-exposure of her, mostly because she doesn't seem like she goes out of her way to seek it. I think she just wants to be a good race car driver, at the end of the day. There are about 30 drivers that are terrible - who cares if they have a penis?
Because they don't get shoved down our throats and plastered on modelling contracts. When you are terrible, you're supposed to get no coverage. Exception: Tebow! Don't forget kournikova, I don't care that she never won I always appreciated her highlights. I seem to recall hearing that Kournikova was actually a very successful doubles player, so I guess she won plenty?
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Paelos
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No one is forcing Danica to do the modelling stuff or the GoDaddy stuff. She knows exactly what she is, and she's taking full advantage of it.
I have no problem with milking your celebrity, I have problems with people pretending that she's anything but a hood ornament of NASCAR. She's there because she's hot. If she was an ugly chick and raced the way she does, she would have been bounced out of the league eons ago.
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I have no problem with milking your celebrity, I have problems with people pretending that she's anything but a hood ornament of NASCAR. She's there because she's hot. If she was an ugly chick and raced the way she does, she would have been bounced out of the league eons ago.
Who is pretending otherwise?
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She's not even that hot. No, really. She's Glamour Shots hot. Anyone with professional hair & makeup can look reasonably attractive. She's an average woman with both in all the "hot" pics. There should be a disclaimer on all such photoshopped & treated displays "Person in Picture is Hotter than they appear."
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She's hot for a NASCAR driver. I agree with you though. She doesn't do anything for me. In the non photoshopped photos that you see of her she looks a little mannish for my tastes.
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Woman in a predominantly male sport (like all American sports, really). I can't wait for the first female placekicker in football.
Only thing I can't stand is the media paint-up of her. She can drive, we'll see how well she fairs in the coming years when she gets used to the bump and grind of closed-wheel stockcar racing.
And who gives a shit if she is using her gender to make some money? People do that all the time. I have more of a problem with how people play up Junior - considering he is the "face" of NASCAR with a pedigree. Outside of that, he is an average driver.
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Paelos
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Again, I don't have a problem with people using their gender to make money in sports. We invented a whole genre of "stupid reporter" called sideline reporting, just so hot chicks could have something moderately serious to do on camera during a game.
I just don't like novelty in racing. Win or don't win. That goes for Junior as well. He's as much of a freaking novelty as Danica, and just as terrible on the track.
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Woman in a predominantly male sport (like all American sports, really). I can't wait for the first female placekicker in football.
Not sure if green.
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Woman in a predominantly male sport (like all American sports, really). I can't wait for the first female placekicker in football.
Not sure if green. I assumed that he was talking about the NFL since we're discussing getting paid.
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Woman in a predominantly male sport (like all American sports, really). I can't wait for the first female placekicker in football.
Not sure if green. I assumed that he was talking about the NFL since we're discussing getting paid. Yes, my mis-step there. I am talking on the professional level.
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Now if she would have kicked for LSU that would have been a completely different story.
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Paelos
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She was a novelty as well, though. I think she kicked 2 extra points and wrote a book about getting molested by the other players.
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Paelos
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Oh and Danica's crashed for the 3rd time this weekend. This time in the first lap along with JJ, and Bayne.
There goes ALL interest in the race. They singlehandedly took out the best racer, the novelty pick, and the defending champ in a matter of 5 minutes.
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From what I'm reading none of these crashes were actually her fault?
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From what I'm reading none of these crashes were actually her fault?
No, apparently it was Elliott Sadler who nudged Jimmie Johnson into the wall and caused the pile up.
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01101010
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From what I'm reading none of these crashes were actually her fault?
That doesn't actually seem to matter... all anyone seems to want to believe is that she wrecked again, must be that she is a bad driver. This is as far as I can go with it before I get pissed off.
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Paelos is never wrong about sports matters.
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No, women drivers, boys, women drivers! If men are always wrong in all matters then women are always the problem drivers!
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I'm curious what percentage of drivers on the circuit she has to outperform to 'belong'.
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Are we seriously having a discussion about NASCAR? Should we break out the banjos and moonshine?
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Paelos
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Paelos is never wrong about sports matters.
She's not even the real news. It's been wreck after wreck with cautions coming out seven times, only to lead up to Montoya actually running into a drying truck and causing an explosion. So now everything's gone red flag, and the race is just a mess. EDIT: I should mention that running into the truck caused a jet fuel leak and fire. So now it's about getting the jet fuel which caught ablaze off the track, in addition to checking that the track is functional. Which I think it may not be at this rate.
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« Last Edit: February 27, 2012, 07:05:45 PM by Paelos »
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It's likely damaged beyond anything they can repair while the race is running.
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Paelos
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Now there's huge crews of people dumping sand or something literally across a turn in the track. It's not looking good for a pre-midnight finish.
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It's probably something to suck up all the fuel on the ground.
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Paelos
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In one of the funnier moments, now they are saying they have to scrub the track with dishwashing soap.
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Makes sense to me, that stuff is all about breaking through oils and junk. I also imagine they aren't just squirting a bottle of Dawn on the track and using some kind of concentrated solution.
Though if they are that would indeed be funny.
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Pretty amazing display of both emergency response and quick reconstruction of the crash site. One of the more entertaining races I've seen in a while. Pretty rare when you have the dirvers out on the backstretch huddled around an iPhone playing with Twitter in the middle of a race while they try to repair the results of a conflagration. Now if only a fist fight had broken out in the infield it would have been the best 500 evar!
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Oh, and on Danica. It's not really her, it's her sponsors that really push her out there. Godaddy obviously paid Fox a ton of money to feature the car a certain number of times. She is just using what she has to get paid and I can't fault anyone for doing that really. She is a competent driver actually. I mean, you are talking about drivers in the top .01 percent of the sport and she is in that mix not embarrassing herself. None of her wrecks had anything to do with her driving. She was turned in the Nationwide and collected in the other wrecks.
Plus, anything unusual is going to get coverage. Look at the Lin stuff. It's just the sports media mentality. They have to fill all that time with something
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« Last Edit: February 27, 2012, 10:55:39 PM by Abagadro »
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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In one of the funnier moments, now they are saying they have to scrub the track with dishwashing soap. They do that for anything oily and greasy. It became common practice around Cincinnati about 12 years ago when a tanker hauling rendered fat overturned on one of the major east-west overpasses. (I-74 & I-75 interchange.) They couldn't find any commercial products typically used for road spills that would get rid of it. Then one of the execs with P&G suggested using Dawn since it's specifically formulated to cut grease. Not Kidding. Cleanup Pt. 2.They also use plain old Dawn to clean animals affected by oil spills. Same reason.
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01101010
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That was the most entertaining Daytona since I started watching NASCAR in 2000, but it was not for the racing per se. Seriously, the juggernaut, Jimmy Johnson gets punted (and Danica) in the first minutes of the race, couple big wrecks, god damn fireball wreck into a blower truck (rule change incoming), the "face" of NASCAR was actually in it (but had little chance the way that 18 car was able to run just about anyway it wanted), and a repeat champion (though Kenseth is more a wallflower on the circuit, he still has a nice resume). And all during primetime on Monday night... only thing that killed it was the duration. NASCAR tides me over till college football starts, so this was a nice spearhead into the season.
And in other news, anyone watch the interviews with RGIII from the combine? Christ he is impressive. Luck or RG3? I just can't imagine the Colts aren't at least curious about Griffin.
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Paelos
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Don't be fooled by the underpants Olympics. Luck is still the guy for Indy. They don't need to take any risks, and RG3 is still considered a risk.
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Yeah, Luck is regarded by some experts as the best QB prospect in the past 30 years. He's the Colts' man.
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