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Post by Mare on Aug 1, 2020 16:50:09 GMT
I am bummed by the fact that what was a pleasant blend of old NASCAR "classic" races, really fun MLB championship and World Series games and PGA reruns of a similar sort has added live action, cardboard cut out fan attendees to baseball, locked in NBA teams having playoffs (which is a good way to get the various leagues up and running) and the happy addition of ice hockey to programming. There is also PFF, field hockey, tons of European Footie and college basketball. There is horse racing from New York state and want Mock Drafts? You got 'em! I even caught a little Aussie Rules football!
I can't find NASCAR anywhere, but I will happily settle for NHL or MLB. Stock car racing crammed so many races in a short period of time that it was the only game in town, other than Footie, and the classic matches, games and races. NASCAR will probably be on tomorrow, it is much more interesting without all the practices and qualifying...great to see the rookies at tracks for the first time doing well and to a certain extent, I think competition has been leveled out a little. Teams under the same marque work together on the track. Teams from differing marques work together. It has been an interesting time for race fans, I think.
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Post by miles on Aug 1, 2020 17:30:03 GMT
I hope you enjoy the race.
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Post by Mare on Aug 2, 2020 1:32:17 GMT
I hope you enjoy the race. Thanks, miles! Oh, and in the list of the wide variety of sport currently on TV/Cable/streaming, I added PFF, which should have been PLL and field hockey should have been left off. I was watching La Crosse, and now realise my boo-boo.
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Post by Introvertigroo on Aug 2, 2020 2:06:39 GMT
I never understood why rednecks love NASCAR. I mean, it is a sport where you do nothing but turn to the left.
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Post by Introvertigroo on Aug 9, 2020 2:28:25 GMT
The store where I work has finally reopened (we had been fulfilling online orders for about two months). We opened just in time for Ohio's tax-free weekend, so we were pretty busy the last two days. Fortunately, I get tomorrow off, so I will jump in the recliner and watch some golf.
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Post by Mare on Aug 9, 2020 16:39:18 GMT
I never understood why rednecks love NASCAR. I mean, it is a sport where you do nothing but turn to the left. I used to think that, too, Intro...I also thought it was an incredible waste of natural resources. After attending races in person, which you haven't seen what I consider a mega cluster bleep until you have been trying to get out of a parking lot for three hours. Many people tailgate in RVs after the race, due to this problem, which extends the traffic jam and drinking for another good long time. First of all, there are road courses and it is comical and sad to watch drivers go flying/plowing into pits of sand. There is also gravity-the pitch of some of these tracks is pretty steep. Now, Charlotte Motor Speedway has initiated a Roval course-a hybrid, if you will, where the course has been diverted in part into the infield for elevation changes and curves to add new challenges. It was great to see Rookies and Seven Time (champion Jimmie Johnson) struggle with something they hadn't seen or practiced on before. Playing field leveler! I like it when that happens! There are concerts. (One time I was at a merch trailer before a Busch race [Saturday race, back then] and my daughter heard a band start up. She said "I know that!" and she took off to see who it was. Thirty Seconds To Mars/ Jared Leto was playing live. My daughter came back very happy. I was still waiting my turn.) I had headsets and my daughter and I could listen on my scanner to drivers talk to their crew chiefs. That was colorful and enlightening. You can buy a Pit Pass and go into the pits/garages...used to be a dress code for safety. My daughter and I once got Pit Passes for super inexpensive amounts on a Truck/IRL (maybe it was CHAMP cars) race day. I learned that a reviled driver that raced in Truck & Cup Series races was about my height-5'3"- and that cracked me up. I got the autograph of my favorite Truck Series driver, and the autograph of a driver who was a rookie that year and has gone on to be a Truck Series champion at least once. I am pretty sure I recognized Sebastien Bourdais walking through the garages that day in a firesuit. He was a tall, skinny little kid with blond hair and black old school glasses. (It would have been back around 2005.) At pre-season testing, my favorite driver of all time Tony Stewart revved on me. (Alleuia!) I learned in the end that if you really want to watch the race and find out what is going on, you should stay home and watch it on TV. If it is a boring race, you can take a nap. If there is a very long rain delay, you can take a nap. If you are hungry or have to go to the bathroom, you don't have to go down 50 concrete steps and stand in an incredibly long line to use a stall that may or may not have a door. The real attraction for me is not wrecks or turning left for three hours. It is the drivers, crew chiefs, team owners, sponsors, carried grudges, Foundations set up by drivers, watching them change over the years-having families, growing the sport at the roots/home track level. Major back story on this stuff...families that get second mortgages so their kid can move up when they show talent, fiancees with ovarian cancer becoming survivors, it goes on and on. Golf is the same way-knowing about the players' struggles and history makes following along more interesting. You can read how much pain Tiger is in by the way he moves or his grimaces. His pain level affects his accuracy. Did he make it to today, Day Four? He didn't look so good Friday. I like the Pandemic quiet-I have become tired of the noisy jerk spectators/hecklers. Sport is about people. The scenery is the flashy bauble that catches the eye...shiny & fast race cars...Augusta National Golf Club's course is beautiful, but how they didn't let black people or women play-assholes! P.S. I do not consider myself to be a redneck, although I do sunburn easily.
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Post by donavan on Aug 9, 2020 17:08:44 GMT
Intro, you just got owned.
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Post by Mare on Aug 9, 2020 17:51:04 GMT
My goal was to explain that it is more than just going around and around.
I am more of a new age NASCAR fan, not the traditional stereotypical fan of bootleggers racing on a beach. A. I am a woman B. I am a college graduate C. I have OCD
Like baseball, there are tons of statistics. The rules are always changing, car bodies and parts measurements and construction included.
I also used to think Ice Hockey was brutal. Then, I took some time to watch it, learn about it and all the players...to watch two guys on ice skates throw their gloves down and try to pull each others' sweaters (jerseys) over their heads AND stay standing in their skates on the ice is particularly entertaining. There are actual bloody brawls, which fill up the Penalty Boxes (bad boy boxes) and people get seriously hurt-I do not like that part. I noticed last night watching a NASCAR Cup race (Michigan Race 1) that the pit crews all lined up for the National Anthem were rocking back and forth, just like NHL players rock back and forth while hearing the anthem(s) before puck drop. Huh. I thought the NHL guys were trying to keep their balance. Now, I think it is the intensity that swirls around within the participants pre-event. Cool.
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Post by miles on Aug 9, 2020 18:01:36 GMT
"I learned in the end that if you really want to watch the race and find out what is going on, you should stay home and watch it on TV."
That was my feeling after going to an Oakland Raider game in the 70s. People standing up in front of you, the action often in a part of the field not easy to see. Of course this was before big screens were set up so the people at the game could watch it on TV.
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Post by donavan on Aug 9, 2020 23:48:47 GMT
Yep, OCD is a fucker. A lot more than just hand washing. Which is quite useful in the current climate. If it was just as simple as that?
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Post by Mare on Aug 13, 2020 1:08:37 GMT
"I learned in the end that if you really want to watch the race and find out what is going on, you should stay home and watch it on TV." That was my feeling after going to an Oakland Raider game in the 70s. People standing up in front of you, the action often in a part of the field not easy to see. Of course this was before big screens were set up so the people at the game could watch it on TV. Now, baseball is another story...you don't leave before the last out! It feels good to be joyful or outraged with a whole stadium full of people! (My daughter can get us out of Angel Stadium parking lot in about 10 minutes. She knows just where to park and she is a brave/safe driver.
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Post by Mare on Aug 13, 2020 1:14:17 GMT
Yep, OCD is a fucker. A lot more than just hand washing. Which is quite useful in the current climate. If it was just as simple as that? Not so simple...best thing about it is if you clear your mind of the little picky routines you have, you remember all kinds of details about things. It must be a cousin to Photographic Memories. I look at it as what I went through to prepare for the current Pandemic. No sweat-you wear gloves at the ATM, the mask is no big deal if you get ones you can wash with changable filters, put some anti-bacterial wipes in your car and keep a bottle of hand sanitizer and a trash bag in the car, too. Wear the mask, enjoy your current stay at home with the fam life which shall never be repeated. (You can't walk in the same river, twice.)
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Post by Mare on Aug 13, 2020 17:18:24 GMT
In more serious news, my mom has been transported back to the hospital ER from Assisted Living. She isn't eating and keeps indicating she can't swallow. One day at a time...so it goes.
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Post by bimble on Aug 13, 2020 18:59:22 GMT
In more serious news, my mom has been transported back to the hospital ER from Assisted Living. She isn't eating and keeps indicating she can't swallow. One day at a time...so it goes. Ok, not great news: how old is she, btw?
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Post by Mare on Aug 13, 2020 19:14:13 GMT
Mid 80s, bimble She worked full time until she was 83, though. She'll tell me she was outside pulling weeds and I react in a not so calm way "What were you doing that for???" She is always going at a slow and steady pace.
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