As my dinner cooks I sit and blog....
What about? I wasn’t sure, then like always Sparky decides to send me an article about Jr. If you haven’t read it, you should. Click on it, read it, and I’ll be here after your done. http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/kriegel-on-dale-earnhardt-jr-030110
You know I am not by any means a Junior fan. I would like to write about something else than Dale Jr. but when the ammo is given to you, there isn’t much you can do. I will make this short and not as hateful as I normally am. I read the article, as painful as it was. It seemed like Mark Kriegel was interviewing a teen or a young 21 year old that got thrown into the sport, not the sports post popular driver. Junior didn’t seem like he wanted or cared to talk to him, and I can understand why. Like any of us at our jobs, we don’t want to hear our boss and co-workers nag us and asking us the same questions over and over again about when are we going to improve our performance? How come we haven’t lived up to their ideas and preconceived notions of what we are supposed to be? How would you like it? By all means I don’t want to defend him (JR) and hell I will be the first one to throw him under the bus if just given the right at any moment.
As I read the article, you saw a deeper insight into Jr. and I started to feel sorry for him when he started to talk about his dad. I mean he is a legend (Dale Sr.); it’s hard to live up to that. I think losing his dad when he did was the worst thing that could have happened to him. I know it’s a terrible thing to lose anyone, but at the point Junior was in his life and just connecting with his dad. Having his dad pass away at that moment in time really stunted Junior’s growth as a person. Dale Jr. as I have said before needs to learn what makes him happy, and if following and just doing what his daddy does makes him happy then so be it. We all have at one time or another looked up to our fathers and wanted to do what they did. My dad was in the Army and a Firefighter... I wanted to be in the Army and be a firefighter. Could I do it? Probably. Would it have made me totally happy? Probably not. I know George W. Bush thought he could do what his daddy did, that didn’t work out well. That’s neither here not there now. Maybe instead of trying to do the job his daddy did, Junior needs to learn how to be the man Dale Sr. was. After that we may see a change in Jr. and he might be able to turn things around, start to win, heck he might even go be that auto mechanic. Learning to follow and be the best doesn’t always mean you have to win Championships, it means being a good person. So Dale Jr. go be the man your daddy was, but remember who you are while doing it and sometimes you can’t do the same thing’s he did but you can still honor him by being the man he was.
No I haven’t gone soft…How about Danica finishing into the wall?..hahaha.. Where was her spotter?? Did she think the voice she heard told her to go low was just in her head?
