Are You Kidding Me?

By Mark Young

I have sat waiting......since late November for this weekend.  I have had thoughts and expectations for the Daytona 500 and what it would bring to begin the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Season.  Then NASCAR went and ruined it all.  The first race of the season, the Super Bowl of racing, the one race where every race fan looks forward to and NASCAR went and ruined it all.  I am so pissed off right now I can't even see straight.......and it has nothing to do with the beverages I ave enjoyed today like so many other race fans.  To put it bluntly I AM PISSED OFF!!!!

U WANT SOME?

Why in the world did NASCAR call the race tonight with 48 laps to go @ 7:00-ish Eastern time?  How many times have we seen NASCAR milk a race until the wee hours of the morning in an effort to get the entire race in and tonight cut it so close?

I am going to be blunt, I am not going to pull any punches, short of dropping F-Bombs and other prime words that I know a ton of you out there screamed at the TV when they called the race, I am absolutely livid with whoever pulled the trigger to call the race.

It's one thing to say enough is enough if the entire state of Florida is socked-in with rain......but it is another thing to call the race for rain but have the trophy presentation and "hat dance" outside when it wasn't raining!!  I sit here one hour after they called the race and look at the radar seeing rain, but not enough to think they couldn't find a way to finish the bigggest race of the NASCAR season.

It isn't as if FOX had any pressing shows to air that would influence an early cancellation, it was only The Simpsons for cripe's sake.  I am pissed and there better be a sound reason behind this early cancellation because right now none of this makes any sense........