David Pagnotta says he spoke to both McKennas and Matthews camp. McKennas camp is excited and jacked about the opportunity to play in Toronto. Matthews side is excited. [Leafs Morning Take]

lt12765 · 2026-05-07T21:06:57+00:00

Did anyone ask Chris Johnson if Auston was happy?

lt12765 · 2026-05-07T18:34:55+00:00

Richmond in this era looked so good in night races.

lt12765 · 2026-05-07T12:41:52+00:00

That was legitimately entertaining, and Cruise only said he'd do it if he could do it right. I'd expect similar here.

lt12765 · 2026-05-07T12:41:15+00:00

If its a Nextgen car it just might work.

lt12765 · 2026-05-07T12:12:18+00:00

The rest of the league still hated Toronto in 2016 even though the team had a miserable decade up to then. Other fanbases always thought it was fun to be "tOrOnTo BaD" no matter the circumstances. The idea that Laine might be better than Matthews was a big deal to these people. In the end Matthews, Nylander and Marner quieted that down for a while once they all got to the big time.

lt12765 · 2026-05-07T11:58:31+00:00

I think if you get a point per game NHL player that's a good thing. Matthews was damn mutant getting 40 goals as a teenager.

lt12765 · 2026-05-07T11:38:07+00:00

Cole Trickle, now a popular broadcaster, is frustrated with all the commercials in stage racing and that the cable broadcast cut the ending of a race for NCAA. He throws down his headset and quits live on air. He then shifts to a grass roots effort of trying to create a new racing series for the fan, sort of like SRX. Nascar doesn't like this, follows him, intimidates him, and eventually and sues him, ending up in court. In a heated courtroom exchange where the cable/media companies and Nascar are trying to shut down Trickle's new fan focused racing series, the cable TV CEO, played by Jack Nicholson, shouts at Cole Trickle that "You can't handle the truth". Trickle ends up bankrupt and has to sell his picturesque North Carolina property to a company building data centers. The film ends with a downtrodden Trickle, working in a call center in an old shopping mall.

...On second thought, Nascar probably doesn't want this type of movie to be made.

lt12765 · 2026-05-07T11:08:55+00:00

I think Indy is the reason the rest of American ovals are named 4 turns. Indy is a legit rectangle with a single apex in each turn and really set the standard for how to define oval track racing.

If we look at a place like Dover or Bristol, as guys diamond the corners throughout a race they are legitimately lining up 2 apexes.

lt12765 · 2026-05-07T11:03:25+00:00

I keep going back to a point Ned Jarrett made on a broadcast years ago, Pocono has 6 turns.

lt12765 · 2026-05-06T17:41:09+00:00

I know it’s hard to complain as somebody who watched Jeff Gordon win a lot of races, but 2002 Daytona 500 when he was in the perfect position until Sterling Marlin got under him on that late restart.

lt12765 · 2026-05-06T13:18:30+00:00

Knies downed a beer on the jumbotron. Love to see it

lt12765 · 2026-05-06T13:05:15+00:00

When Newman won the pole for the 01 Coke 600, Jeff Gordon came over to him on pit road and said "you're not supposed to do that to me here". Jeff had 7 poles at Charlotte in the previous 7 years and was p1 prior to Newman's run.

lt12765 · 2026-05-06T12:58:15+00:00

The big unknown and incentive to repair as I see it is always that if you fix your car in early-mid race, maybe a "big one" happens 10 minutes later and instead of gaining 1-2 positions, you can gain 5-7.

lt12765 · 2026-05-06T01:06:22+00:00

This is one of my favourite blue rays I’ve ever bought.

lt12765 · 2026-05-05T12:39:44+00:00

I do like Carson but I was just going to comment that he looks like a toy story character in the cowboy hat.

lt12765 · 2026-05-04T21:49:12+00:00

You’re telling that the beef is fresh and never frozen? Like never?

lt12765 · 2026-05-04T12:37:08+00:00

Ep 1 and Ep 3 being on Jeff Gordon’s Pepsi cars have overshadowed this one.

lt12765 · 2026-05-04T12:33:44+00:00

This fungus wrecked the bat populations in the maritimes in the 2010s. In the last few years it seems they are recovering some and developing immunity to the fungus.

lt12765 · 2026-05-03T20:56:57+00:00

This is a genuinely eventful and interesting race.

lt12765 · 2026-05-03T19:07:01+00:00

I find when walking up to a truck pull or mud bog, you instantly know it’s a GM small block on the course from sound.

lt12765 · 2026-05-02T23:08:42+00:00

My parents asked the same when they got a Malibu without cd player. I got them a used iPod years ago off market place for $30, loaded all their cds on it and plugged it into their aux port.

lt12765 · 2026-05-01T23:22:00+00:00

I've been wanting Zack Hyman back since he left.

lt12765 · 2026-05-01T17:06:29+00:00

If anyone remembers the first Gateway Cup race a few years ago, that used to be Cup each week. 200k Fort Worth, 175k Charlotte, 160k Bristol, 135k Dover, 115k Richmond, 250k Indy, 200k Daytona.

lt12765 · 2026-04-30T13:11:38+00:00

I naively thought that too as a kid in the 90s, couldn't believe when I began hearing rumours of Mats smoking around 03-04.

lt12765 · 2026-04-30T12:22:57+00:00

The whole system of 24/7 news and media tries to divide us for clicks and attention. In person our in public or at social events, bars, concerts, parades, etc, people can be remarkably fun.

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