RIP Stretchy Truck

The milestone, by the way, was the first time Corvette beat the Vipers. Fellows drove his nuts off and was the guy getting hosed down between stints.

Here it is. Race was on September 2, which may as well be August.

Because road racing is so Yurpean, they usually make the race “number” in kilometers. I think the Sonoma race is the Something Someting 350, which is close to 200 miles. It takes normal time (2-1/2 hours) to run.

ALMS had a goddamn August race at TMS in 2000. They moved the start to dusk and it was still 105 degrees at the green flag.

Modern Trans-Am is as close as you’ll find, along with the SCCA’s GT1 (I think) class.

You want professional athlete money? Unionize. Professional salaries increased once the MLBPA gained leverage.

That said, if you want to compare salaries, it makes as much sense to compare the bottom ones as well as the top. For simplicity’s sake, the minimum MLB salary is currently $555,000. It looks like of the big…

I was there!

I know, right?

Noted for next time.

I got watch Felix Diaz attempt to start a game in 2004.

Something something Ford-GM joint transmission something.

Yeah, the pay-per-view streams are insane. I saw an ARCA one that was $30 for the night so I looked up the general admission tickets for the same race: $20/person. I seem to recall the Chili Bowl is about $100 to stream the whole week. Who on earth has dreamed up this business model and, perhaps more importantly, who…

Don’t forget Shingo’s Frisbee Slider! Also, Hermanson’s ONE postseason appearance (Game 3 of the WS) was a blown save IIRC. But when he was healthy, he was phenomenal. I remember being nervous about Jenks every time he pitched in the postseason.

That was patent media-pandering bullshit while they tried desperately to find a narrative in 2005. Nobody talked about Ty Cobb’s shameful racism when the Tigers were in the 2006 World Series.

James Hinchcliffe had a similar outcome to Kanaan’s, I think, in his recent (short) tenure with Andretti.

Actually a TON of classes back then. Sorted by displacement.

The #91 Porsche is my pick to win it and I’m not at all a Porsche guy. Their pace has quietly been really consistent right around 3:55, which is probably pretty close to what Ford and Ferrari will run, maybe a second or two slow. But if it rains, Nick Tandy in that car is going to open a can of whoop-ass on the GTE…

I do what I can. Nerds can’t have any fun.

It is. If you believe what you read on Twitter and coming out of some of the pit boxes, you’d think that the polesitter gets to take home the trophy for the 24-hour race.