[jdull99]

6th in stage one, was the highlight of Larson's day (it pays some points...); got caught up on one of the "big ones"...BUT I was talking about Blaney too! & now he wins & the two of them are locked in to battle 6 other (yet to be determined!) drivers for the final 4 spots in the Championship race! I think it's cool. Open wheel fans can claim Blaney, even tho he barely ran Sprint cars (but his dad did enough to cover it!).

AND Alex Bowman - former Ford Focus midget champ AND the 2009 USAC National Midget Rookie of the Year, finished 2nd at Kansas this spring & won one of the last 1.5mile track races this summer (Chicago); so - the way things have been going - he has as much of a chance as any, to join the list of those locked in for the final 8...(the next race is Kansas this Sunday, the last in this "round" of the "playoffs")

But ya, the race was wild it sounded like (I didn't really see any of it...almost forgot it was on & everything...). Newman actly led thru the "tri-oval" but lost by .007! ...Stenhouse led a BUNCH, & took 9th after all sorts of excitement...


For those resisting the NASCAR "playoffs", & maybe even these two drivers getting to the penultimate round (having not won during the season), the Washington Nationals "only" won 93 baseball games this season (tied for 8th best in the MLB, to my count, four teams were 100+ game winners), and are now just ONE win away from being the National League team in the World Series (it will be their 1st), as a "Wild Card" post-season entrant. It happens. Kind of the point of the "playoffs" really...make things interesting. I'm sure its happened before, & in the other big league sports too.