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That other sport finally ended so now we can focus 100% on the real sport in this world. I’m talking about the one that began by speed with bootleggers trying to outrun the good guys mile after mile in a steel box with wheels. It’s NOT the one that tries to outrun their opponent for a whooping hundred yards with a oval type ball made out of swine skin and ends with a Budweiser commercial. It’s NASCAR!

Football is over and racin’ begins! Though the Bud Shootout isn’t a points race and means virtually nothing but a few hundred thousand dollars for the winner, its still a Nascar race. The race also holds true for BONFIRE, though it means virtually nothing but a few hundred pennies for the winner, its still a Nascar race. Didn’t I just say that? Only difference I see is that Nascar has FOX sports and a “couple” sponsors while BONFIRE has me with a couple of holes in my pockets.

While Nascar’s Bud Shootout is for those who’ve earned a pole last year or past shootout winners, in BONFIRE its for all twenty members. If the winner of the race is on your team you win (four winners maximum since each driver can be on four teams). Last year yours truly won and that has pretty much been all that I won in our league. My wife Judy and brother-in-law Jody are the only flames that have multiple shootout wins.

Taking a look at Judy’s team of drivers in the race of Gordon, Stewart and Mears, I can see her winning for the third time while Jody has JR, Newman, and Bowyer playing the polesitters game. They each have three drivers in the race meaning the odds on paper seem to be with them to mark up another non-point victory. But if you break down their teams you’ll see that Judy’s 24-car is probably the only realistic driver to win since Stewart is driving that Toyota machine and I’m not sold on his new manufacturer yet and Mears will just be the ugly duckling of HMS. Jody has, hmmm – I don’t think any that can win the race. It’s not that the 88 car can’t win, but this is his first race with his new team and I think will have a lot of trouble. Earnhardt will probably try too hard to give a good first impression, thus resulting in just the opposite. Newman will find himself tumbling and Bowyer will not have the year he did in 07.

So now you’re asking yourself, how does this guy know that stuff? Well, let me tell you! I have what’s called this crystal ball, although its cracked, I still have that unique ability to see the future.

Do you know what else CCB (cracked crystal ball) says? It says Martin Truex will be the man to cross the finish line first. This will be a telltale race for DEI and that the NASCAR world better not count them out, especially in plate races, even without their long lost child gone astray.

Now for your next question, who has Truex on their team? Not me! Its Bob, my mom (LaRae), step-dad (Dan-last year’s champ) and Kyle (Jody’s son). Finally you’re asking yourself, how accurate is this thing called the CCB. Though I have duct tape on CCB, and it’s a little dusty from not using it for 3 months, I have all the confidence in the world that it will let me down. Yep, you read that correctly. It will let me down and why I continue to use CCB, I’m not really sure, but I think it has something to do with keeping my jinxing reputation intact. Until next week keep the fire burning!