…If the shoe fits……

Danica is good looking? LOL Palin book o’ beauty or that young asian boy thing again?

Alli Owens is being overshadowed by this hype? Last time I looked she was earning her way in.

Jim, some just don’t get tongue in cheek in any degree and never will.

Color Danica over her head next.

In my opinion, you are a complete Dumb A__! Your comments show me, that you know nothing about racing and just love to rune your mouth. !

You couldn’t make it around the track at half the speed nor come anywhere close to doing what Ms Patrick did on Saturday, yet you set behind your computer and BLAST HER!

You don’t evwn deserve to watch her nuch less comment on her abilities!
Bruce

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I am having a rough time knowing where you earned your credentials for grading anyone driving a car. They just give them out for setting on your butt at a desk and looking at selected You Tube selections of the race, I guess…

“Social skills=B”. And what do the others (top star dudes) in the sport get for their social skills? They are a bunch of testosterone-driven males who trash each other on a regular basis! (BTW, I am a testosterone-driven male as well, but I’m not stupid.) Oh, but she walked away from a bunch of “pressers” over a year ago ( who were asking airhead questions designed only to foment controversy that didn’t exist before your crowd of gossip mongers slithered into the room)so you grade her life because of that long gone event about which you still hold a vengeful grudge.

This is February, 2010, dude! “News”, by definition should mean something new. You were supposed to be grading her on what she did now, not using yesterday’s news, and your preset interpretation (read: opinion) of today as seen through the eyes of a disgruntled “presser”, to simply take a shot at someone (an evil woman, no less) who took the racing sport to a new revived level, amidst all the hype and brouhaha of you “pressers” (who wanted her to fail). Curious. What do you grade yourself in social skills?

“Posture=D”. Wtf? Since when do race cars drivers get graded on how they fit in a seat? She is about a hundred pounds less and two feet shorter than the guys, so she must have poor posture…doh. Bizarre, you are, dude

And she gets minus points for being alert and into the moment! Wow…Pedley thinks she should…What? Be texting her friends about the race while she drives with her knees? And you think she is in a “conservatively set-up race car”. PHWAAAAHHHH! Then, if so, all the more power to her skills that she could come back from last place to fifth in just twenty laps!

“History=F”. You know, some times one must get into the event before you really understand what it is like. Before I went to Viet-Nam, I thought it was a completely different thing, until I got there and saw what a miserable lie was told to us before we went. I took Danica’s comment to mean the same revelation about the dangers of ARCA Daytona was hers.

Geography=C. As I watched the race, it seems like she was not the only one who favored the low line. It was single file down there with about 3/4 of the field with everyone planning the same breakout move when the race got down to twenty laps or so. The same agenda as every ARCA Daytona

“PhysEd=B+”. You have to grade her great on that. She can whup your butt in a street fight, bro. And I have to shake my head at the “(She looked) like she was driving a school bus” (like every good little girlie who wants to drive something big and powerful should be doing…). That king of comment of yours is called “planting an invidious image” isn’t it? A National Enquirer “presser” technique.

“Math=B” She started 12th, true. But she made her run to sixth starting from setting in the infield in last place of the lead lap, and she did it in just twenty laps. The hardest and most competitive twenty laps of the race!

And of course you think it wasn’t her. She had “the best car in the race”!!! This is just a few sentences from the “conservatively set-up race car” remark. You are a real hoot, bro.

“Poise-B+” Any grade less that A+++ is a ludicrous slam at one of the most stalwart performances under the gun I have ever witnessed in stock car racing.

And I watched the race on car cam during the spin and I did not see Ted Eury,Jr. reaching over her shoulder and grabbing the wheel and pulling that car into the straight line and then coming back to the track (where most guys would take a few laps just to get used to peeing their suits) and digging in for a fantastic run back to the front cars in just twenty laps.

But you can’t have it be just her doing, can you? You need to think a guy did it all. Bro, you need some attitude adjustment. This is the twenty-first century. Maybe you need to move to China where the women wear hurting shoes and follow ten paces behind the man. Actually, I think that even China has gotten over that attitude for the most part…

“Vocabulary=D” Dude, she has been in open wheel for the majority of her life. The is a new experience. She might have some carry over from her “day job”. Just like you have lingering prejudices from your former life as a…what? sweatshop boss honcho-ing fifty women at sewing machines in some sweltering back street warehouse in the garment district?

“Cheerleading=A+” Yes she did a great job at handling the pressure of not only driving a monster race in a muscle car, but taking the time out from learning an important and dangerous new job to accommodate the “pressers” clamoring for more of her time than they deserved, and fattening their wallets with her charisma and talent.

Good on you, Ms. Patrick, good on you.

“Extra Curricular Activities=F” O M G! You, an obvious paragon of Chauvinism, a last bastion of male dominion, commenting on her job as spokesperson for a company that is (it seems to me) satirizing attitudes like yours with a funny add campaign which also has, I believe, Dale Jr. working at the same thing…yet, you don’t mention Dale…hmmm. Pretty invidious imaging. National Enquirer stuff…

“Art=C” I don’t believe she painted that car, Pedley. Nor did she even select the colors for the sponsor, Pedley. How dare you assert that: a) she chose the colors, and B) she painted the car?

Wow, you really have it in for her, don’t you?

“Luck=A++ Yes, she had some luck. You have to get lucky to win in a sport that has so many “outside your control” influences in the determining of the victorious. I play poker and it takes luck to win as well. But the same people show up at the final table. Do they just always get lucky? I think not. I think skill puts you in the right place for luck to hit you. She has some serious skills… I bet she could play good poker.

Congeniality=C DUDE! Here you go again! Pontificating your reoccurring theme of bias and prejudice! She is not going to win any friends bumping back on a driver who tries to intimidate her by doing the same thing. Of course, You believe that Earnhardt Jr. and any “guy” can do it and it is kewl, but “THE NEW GIRL?”. Jeeze bro, how do you keep your job?

And she did not “storm up pit row” fo a lesser offense. She took the walk and then did the talk about a very serious maneuver taken by another driver.

In conclusion, it seems to me that you are very jealous because Danica gets the attention, she does her job well, she has a unique image that is setting the racing world up a few levels, and she is boldly going where mostly men have gone before, and she is successful at it.

You need to catch up with the rest of the world, Pedley, and don’t be so quick to diss someone because they can full on drive a car, of any kind, and look nice doing it, in a little black cocktail dress if the powers would allow it.

Or, you need another job. The Enquirer probably would snap you up in a New York Minute…

headache

My only gripe was the “You know” valley girl speak. She should have that mastered by now.

NASCAR is entertainment first and foremost. We’re Americans, we love the underdog, especially the good looking ones who are willing to roll up their sleeves and go toe to toe with anyone, even at 90 lbs….BECAUSE..she truly is passionate about the sport.

Patrick is the best thing to happen to NASCAR since …..let’s just say she’s the best thing that’s happened to NASCAR in some time.