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IMHO when you start talking about the GOAT of any sport or trying to rank people, there are usually several names in the top tier with really little or nothing between them, and it's all just splitting hairs trying to determine who was best. IMHO it's a futile task due to various factors. In F1 (in no particular order), Fangio, Clark, Hamilton, Alonso, Schumacher, Max, Senna, Prost, Stewart, Lauda, and more have all done amazing things in different eras, cars, circumstances, etc.
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And to think they had the problem pretty much licked at the beginning of this ruleset, and then threw it all away when a team or two cried because they couldn't get their heads around how to be quick.
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First racing death I ever saw was at the little 1/4 mile dirt oval, Riverside Int'l Speedway, in West Memphis Arkansas. I was like 6 or 7, and afaik it was the first race my Dad ever took me to. He was stationed at Memphis NAS at the time. Sammy Swindell was racing that night. He was 15 or 16. Even then, I remember Sammy was already at least a local star. The legendary Hooker Hood was still racing & was there, too. There was another rising star in the field, a young guy in his 20s named Alvin Gatlin. I didn't really know it at that time, but he died in his super-mod, right in front of me on the front straight, maybe 50 feet away. I can remember sitting there looking at the car, with him not moving, and people speaking in hushed tones, but not really giving away the severity of what had just happened. And then they announced the racing was over for the night and we got up and left, back across the Mississippi into Memphis. Something broke on the front suspension and he took a hard right, right into the wall. Likely died of head or spinal trauma, in a crash that a HANS device would probably have allowed him to walk away from. Didn't put me off of racing though, esp dirt oval racing. You can see some of the best racing in the world any Friday or Saturday night at those tracks, esp when the sprints and/or modsifieds are there They tend to think it'll be someone else, like the way they pilots in the Right Stuff just dismissed it as the dead guy's carelessness, etc, and that they'd never fuck up like that. That, and many are generally ok with the idea of going out behind the wheel, doing what they love. like those test pilots. I loved the bit they showed, with Fernando just telling everyone straight up that Max is the only guy that can do what he'd just done with that car. If Fernando says that, then I believe it. Agree with most of this, but I disagree re: Alonso. He's still easily top 5 on the grid imho. If AM, Newey, and Honda can give him a good car next year, he'll show what he can still do, and this season's just starting, too. If they can't, then he's probably gone, but I've seen no reason to write him off yet, esp driving the current AM shitbox. He's still a freak. That battle with Gasly early on was amazing. Re: Yuki, it's his first race weekend in a very difficult car, and he still did far better than Lawson has. Lawson did nothing but go backwards in this race, and got destroyed by Hadjar who was freaking out all weekend. Lawson's turrible. What's this based on though? They're driving pretty much last year's car and are focused on next year. You won't see much development on that car, and the drivers can't do miracles with it. Stroll looked terrible all weekend, but I didn't see anything in any session that indicated the AM was going to be a points-scoring car at Suzuka this time. I think Alonso got everything the car had.
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I mean ...
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In case anyone still doubted it ... this team is fo' real. They nasty.
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Man, that's just not a swing, even by my strict-ish standards. We see guys get away with much more than that numerous times every game. Now, about that ball Flores hit to center. He hit that a fucking ton. Holy shit. On a normal day that's well up on the wall and outta here. Mashed the fuck out of it.
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LOL look at this jackass with his jersey all unbuttoned.
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The SEC Baseball standings page still has us at 6-1 for some reason. That probably shouldn't drive me crazy, but it does.
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^Probably not very good for the aero ...
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Any of y'all going out for MotoGP? LOL I totally forgot it's starting today until I got a text from my buddy showing the T15 stands pretty much empty. My other buddy who knows things said they sold 37K tickets this year for Sunday, and that the past four years have also been around 38K-ish. That's just amazing to me when you see the crowds they draw elsewhere.
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Yeah we went to Koh Samui & Bangkok last year. Pretty sure we were driven along that highway where the building collapsed, on the way to the floating market & some other sites. /csb Godspeed, @bangkok. I'd echo the sentiments that you shpuld gtfo, but I'm not sure I'd know where to go that's any safer at this point.
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The Dallas Stars 2024-2025 Season Thread: Win Now, Talk Later
wood replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
Yeah I kinda thought something like that too. That's the only thing I could come up with that made any sense. -
The Dallas Stars 2024-2025 Season Thread: Win Now, Talk Later
wood replied to Longhorn_Fan68's topic in Other Sports
So was I the only one who thought the Steel/Walman penalties should have been no penalty at all on either guy? Walman forced Steel into the goalie. Steel was trying to stop, but there was no way he was stopping with Walman riding him into the cage. But it didn't look to me like either player did anything illegal there. I don't know shit about fuck though. Yeah, pretty sweet.
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