If somebody is that ignorant to think that wins, owner points, manufacturer points and driver points doesn't matter, do they even rate the space for a comment?
I think most fans like the idea of Ryan Blaney as a champion, even if this statistically is maybe not his best or most complete season. He’s had some poor luck in the past and generally shown himself to be a driver with champion potential, although often hasn’t been able to seal the deal in a lot of race win scenarios. I think there’s certainly a bit of disconnect in feeling like it would be this season though, since he was mostly absentee for a large chunk of the season between his Coke 600 win and the Round of 12 (though he did get wrecked out of two of his better runs during that time at Nashville and Daytona). But it’s hard to argue against a guy being a “deserving” champion when he gets it done at the end, and his closing stretch of 1st-12th-6th-2nd-1st-2nd is probably one of the best championship close out performances of the playoffs, dating all the way back through the debut of the Chase in 2004.
It was reported as the third best run in the playoffs behind Stewart and another driver I can't remember. One of the problems was that it wasn't reported while it was happening and it was a surprise to many with Blaney winning it all.
Just to be clear, I'm not trying to poo-poo Blaney for this. It doesn't bother me at all, much less in the way that Harvick losing a title after being dominant all season did. My point is more that it seems like it reinforces my viewpoint towards the chase that the stage points don't actually matter at all and are a red herring intended to spice up the races mid-season when many favorites are already locked in. If stages were introduced in large part to try and prevent locked in teams from riding around and testing for later in season rather than racing in the present, it may already be failing at that.
For a lot of reasons, I don't think much analysis of the playoffs has been done outside of things paid for by the teams themselves. NASCAR could be at fault for this in part because they've parsed down the data available to researchers and the like following their acquisition of Racing Reference (which they have also started to run into the ground). You can also suggest (rightfully imo) that what coverage that exists does so with the expressed approval of NASCAR, so they could approve something of that nature to be written or discussed on Sirius XM or on TV or whatever.
There was plenty of coverage by the press during the chase run. The examples I was talking about went all throughout the Chase. The most glaring was when the 4 commentators on Race Hub were picking who would win the final race, nobody picked Ryan Blaney. On almost all of the pre-race shows Blaney was the last driver talked about.
I have a feeling he’ll have a big 2024. Wouldn’t surprise me if he pops off 3 or 4 wins next year.
Most scholars recognize there were some silent years of Christ minstry were the there were no scriptural references to his ministry or work.
You forget the preacher-ett's helmet period, when he smote the black Mayer and crushed him with his I'm better than you edict. I am the golden boy he said, they all bow as I part the field, in pop pop's admirals barge.
Either turn off the car or open the garage door. The fumes are getting to you.
Next year they're going full out who's line is it anyway. The points don't matter and we make up the rules as we go along. Maybe they should add a fan vote to the playoffs? That way you vote your driver into the final 4!
I didn’t even watch Phoenix Cup race. It didn’t matter to me.
Maybe a little
He has never referred to his grandfather as pop pop. That is reserved for Poor Richard and his no talent grandchildren. Be better at being you.....or just zip it, and admit that he had a very nice rookie season.
He doesn't care that you were surprised, and what happened to him is none of your business. Maybe disliking him would be easier?
That looked like a relatively positive comment on Gibbs. Not sure why you've pulled your panties up your crack over it.
Have a great kindergarten year.
Relatively. Ty has never spoken about his Dad'sdeath. The impact of that is his story, and his alone....as are my panties.
Preacher has put a muzzle on the young Gibber. Rev as taken a tip from Gerbil Jeff and thinks he's Ty's mouthpiece.
I like Kyle, but he's one of the last people who should be knocking anyone for "wasted potential".
Ty needed muzzled. As I recall, he compared himself to Jesus Christ late in 2022. Only presidential candidates are allowed to do that.
Your panties are Ty's and Ty's alone?
Says the guy who just thru a fit when he didn't like what I was saying about the altar boy when I was actually complimenting him. But yeah, reading comprehension isn't taught until 2nd grade.
Ya got me.
He didn't do that, but ya know...the narrative. I get it.
There ya go. You got it out. Let's be done.
No narrative. I'm probably not recalling the details correctly. I'm pretty sure he said something easily misquoted. For whatever reason, he hasn't done that this season.
If you can bind Clair B. Lang's interview with his father after he won the Xfinity Championship, you will understand the reason(s) why we have a different Ty this year.
Some things never change. Maybe someone should get him a thesaurus for Christmas so he can continue to say the same thing, just differently
Yeah, that's kind of what goes on around here....same thing, just different. I like consistency.