| Another First for Junior | | Date Created: Feb 13, 2005, 03:29 PM |
 Click your mouse to Apple's iTunes home page this Tuesday, as Dale Earnhardt Jr. becomes the first athlete to be featured on the popular music site's "CELEBRITY PLAYLIST" feature.
Each week, stars from music, film and television display their own personal favorites from among the more than one million songs on the iTunes system. Now, you can add your fave NASCAR star to the list. So - check it out, and you can download and listen to the same favorites as Dale Jr. (While you're there, don't miss lists from Barry Manilow, Mischa Barton, Snoop Dogg, Michael Moore, and Fred Durst among many others.)
Check back here Tuesday and we'll have a direct link to Dale Jr's playlist. (And don't miss 3 Doors Down's new album: straight from the Budweiser Shootout to the #1 spot on the iTunes sales chart...)
Yup, it's true: Dale Jr. did have his iPod in the racecar to quench the boredom of the seemingly endless wait on pit lane to make a qualifying practice run Saturday morning. And you thought the Budweiser commercial of Dale Jr. with a CD player in his racecar was only a joke?
Random Notes after a long drive home:
---- Congratulations to Dale Jarrett, who takes a clean sweep of Bud Pole positions during Speedweeks. Dale drew the bottle with the "1" on it to start from the Bud Pole in Saturday night's Shootout, and now will start from the same spot for one of Thursday's qualifying race and Sunday's Daytona 500.
---- It took me only fractionally longer to drive more than 500 miles from Daytona to Charlotte at (near) legal speeds than it did to complete the Bud Pole qualifying session Sunday... Be honest: would you have paid your own hard-earned money to buy a ticket to watch 57 restrictor-plate cars go around one at a time?
----- With the new rules for qualifying (last year's top 35 in points are already locked into the Daytona 500), never has a session that lasted so long meant so little to so many.
---- During my drive, I searched the Sirius satellite/AM/FM bands the entire afternoon and was never able to locate an affiliate or hear a mention of qualifying. (yeah, yeah, I know XM had it - but XM is in my other car...) This only strengthens my belief the entire Speedweeks schedule needs to be examined and remade. Something major - along the magnitude of the "Chase for the Cup" idea. In other words: a clean sheet of paper. The time has come to make the Speedweeks schedule more efficient and cost effective for the competitors AND more exciting for the fans. I still cannot get my brain around the collective yawn among everyone at the track so far this week. It's easy to forget all of the teams have already been on the road five straight weeks testing before they arrived here for the "start" of the season.
---- Has anyone noticed "That's Racin.com" has jumped on the blog-alicious wagon? Does it also seem they have chosen bloggers out of a hat? BUT - they are the first "major" site to do so. I suppose they get an "attaboy" for it.
---- The 2005 Budweiser Shootout media site is going off-line Monday, so sneak a peek while you can.
---- The best medicine: real racing and seeing a Make-a-Wish kid meet Dale Jr. Oh, and hearing Metallica right before the drivers get in their cars. I was just about pumped up enough to push past the crew and jump in the car myself... "exittt liiiight / enterrrr nigggght / take my hand / off to never-never land."
---- Based on a few fan message boards, it seems the Junior fans are on the rev-limiter and in a panic because of today's qualifying. It also seems they are threatening to do harm to DW from today's telecast? I didn't see/hear it, but kids, kids, kids: deeeep breath. Exhale. Repeat. The money is paid NEXT Sunday.
Get Well: to my brother-in-law Tim, who proved "white men can't jump" was a lie, but apparently blew out a knee proving it one last time...
Lyric of the week:
"The grass is always greener... where the dogs are shitting"
- from "OUTSHINED" by Soundgarden / Badmotorfinger CD |
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