ALT's First Annual Tuesday Afternoon Blog Dump
If there is a God in a Heaven -- and apparently fewer of us subscribe to that theory these days -- that Man flat out owes Mark Martin. Big time. Martin has finished second in the championship four times, once by an infamous 26 points (in 1990), third four times, and fourth on three occasions. You could be forgiven if you figured Martin and Hendrick Motorsports would make beautiful music together in 2009.
* Mark Martin and Hendrick Motorsports were going to produce a storybook ending to Martin's stellar career. Yeah, well, so far, no good, says the Associated Press.
* Over at NascarInsiders, "Journo" offers a brutal takedown of Reed Sorensen and Casey Mears, wondering how it is the perennially mediocre manage to land quality rides.
* Some observers seem to think this Jeff Gordon fella might just win hisself a race one of these days ... this guy at the Lexington Dispatch is sure of it, even!
* So, the economy, it's bad, right? But, the weird thing is, it's like there's the economy sucks and it's bad for NASCAR fatigue right about now and fewer outlets are addressing the matter, which is really strange given that three people showed up at Atlanta. Enter Sports Illustrated, which is here to tell you that, hey, the economy sucks and it's bad for NASCAR.
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You've heard of hyperbole, I presume? Moreover, I read quite a few stories that had the number closer to 60,000. I wonder, too, if the Super Bowl would sell more than 90,000 seats if it was held in, say, the Rose Bowl.
Aditionally, I think one of the ingredients missed in all of these discussions is this: NASCAR has been telling the world for more than a decade that it is the highest of high-flying sports, the hottest ticket, etc., etc., etc. Now that it is neither of those things, it has moved its own bar and rather than hold itself up to the world as 'all that,' it seems to be finding refuge in the 'yeah, but we out-drew the world croquet championships.'
Which is it? The greatest of the great or merely better than certain other events against which it is pitted?
Re: "3 people showed up in Atlanta.". Ah, um (insert sound of clearing throat, more earnest than sarcastic though), it was more than 90,000. Even with some empty seats, that's more than the Super Bowl. BTW, more than 140,000 fans came out to see some NASCAR racing the previous Sunday in Vegas. That's about 2x the Super Bowl.
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