Leap Frog

Someone said to me yesterday at my daily coffee stop... you know that neighborhood gas coffee and go... only my little place has a few tables where the same half a dozen men sit every morning with their paper in front of them, their eyes on everything but the paper and their mouths spewing out daily local jargon as I heard from the little crowd "hey Michael whose winning today?"... without even turning around from the sticky counter where I poured my coffee I simply answered "Smoke" followed by several jib jabs from the little crowd as I paid and exited with a smile on my face. Well... what can I say... it's obvious that this has become Stewart's annual opening statement and I have a strong feeling he'll do it again today in the Cup race.

During the Nationwide race yesterday I sat fully reclined in my Lazy Boy in front of my flat screen nodding off... I've decided that the networks should only air the last 25 laps of the Superspeedway races... a decision in my little mind because I wasted an entire afternoon to watch 2 minutes of exciting racing at the end... oh well... I justified it because I had a touch of the flu but these type races really are boring as hell... 500 miles where 99% of the race is during the last mile as we watched the same 8 cars play leap frog for two hours.