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12/30/08

2	No mention of Jimmie Johnson wining a 3rd consecutive Cup title? WTF? I'd say that list of top 10's missed it by a mile.

12/30/08

Pat

11	This comment was voted poor quality by FanIQ (Show anyway) das3cr wrote: No mention of Jimmie Johnson wining a 3rd consecutive Cup title? WTF? I'd say that list of top 10's missed it by a mile. Unfortunately, NASCAR isn't really something that lends itself to "top 10 moments" unless there's a huge crash and someone dies or something.

12/30/08

100%InjuryRate

2	No mention of Corey Hill's Gumby impression? I'm beyond disappointed.

12/30/08

das3cr

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Pat wrote:

Unfortunately, NASCAR isn't really something that lends itself to "top 10 moments" unless there's a huge crash and someone dies or something.

Golf? Golf somehow is exciting enough? Golf over Nascar? IRL over NAscar? *shakes head* And I know it's just my opinion, but NCAA Basketball or even pro never makes it into my top 10's. Just saying. I'll give a pass to the Olympic team though, that was a tops for me. No mention of the US Olympic beach Vollyball teams Gold ..... But we will mention a college BB game no one saw and a golf game no one cared about. LOL

12/30/08

Pat

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12/30/08

RichmondSpider

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12/30/08

SkoalVikings

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Pat wrote:

You don't think anyone cared about the US Open?

Wow...

I guess things are quite different in Indiana. I'm sure once the Hoosiers suck less, people will get back into basketball.

I agree with Pat, here in MN Golf is huge, more people play Golf here than just about any other sport. I would actually move Tiger's win up a couple of spots. Anyone who has played Golf knows it is one of the hardest sports to master and to beat a field of the world's best players with a bad knee (knees are very important in a Golf swing) is an epic achievement.

IRL is probably more popular worldwide than NASCAR, most of the rest of the world are big open wheeled racing fans.

How can anyone say that the NCAA Championship game is not one of the biggest sports stories of the year?

12/30/08

das3cr

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Pat wrote:

You don't think anyone cared about the US Open?

Wow...

I guess things are quite different in Indiana. I'm sure once the Hoosiers suck less, people will get back into basketball.

Well, I'm sure someone cared about the US open somehwere, and maybe, just maybe someone somewhere cared about college hoops. But I never have, nor will I.

But someone winning the Cup 3 consecutive times is something else entirely. It's like winning the Super Bowl 3 consecutive times, or the World Series 3 consecutive times. It doesn't get any bigger than that.

12/30/08

das3cr

3	RichmondSpider wrote: These are sports highlights - anyone can go out in a car, sweat alot and make one big left-hand turn - hell, I can do that on I-64... those who worship NASCAR have never played sports. If that is true, then how can we call Golf a sport? And I'd love to see you try racing on I-64. It should make a great high light for news at nine.

12/30/08

Pat

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das3cr wrote:

If that is true, then how can we call Golf a sport? And I'd love to see you try racing on I-64. It should make a great high light for news at nine.

And I'd love to see you play 18 holes and finish under par. At least there, YOU would be the one doing the work, instead of a vehicle doing it for you.

FYI... it doesn't matter how many people can or can't drive for NASCAR. That has nothing to do with whether or not it's a sport. Lots of people can't do brain surgery, but that doesn't make it a sport. Lots of people CAN run... but foot races ARE a sport.

I'm not trying to hijack this thread and turn it into a sport/not a sport thread, but damn... NASCAR people are always so illogical. Must be something in the water.

12/30/08

uptown7010

0	Pat wrote: Unfortunately, NASCAR isn't really something that lends itself to "top 10 moments" unless there's a huge crash and someone dies or something. Thats madness but true!

12/30/08

dallas_fan

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Pat wrote:

And I'd love to see you play 18 holes and finish under par. At least there, YOU would be the one doing the work, instead of a vehicle doing it for you.

FYI... it doesn't matter how many people can or can't drive for NASCAR. That has nothing to do with whether or not it's a sport. Lots of people can't do brain surgery, but that doesn't make it a sport. Lots of people CAN run... but foot races ARE a sport.

I'm not trying to hijack this thread and turn it into a sport/not a sport thread, but damn... NASCAR people are always so illogical. Must be something in the water.

Thread hijacker!!!

12/30/08

hbkim3651

3	Pat wrote: Unfortunately, NASCAR isn't really something that lends itself to "top 10 moments" unless there's a huge crash and someone dies or something. Obviously you have no idea of how grueling a Nascar race is. There isn't an athelete in ANY sport who could do what these men do in a single day.

12/30/08

100%InjuryRate

4	hbkim3651 wrote: Obviously you have no idea of how grueling a Nascar race is. There isn't an athelete in ANY sport who could do what these men do in a single day. You mean sitting in a car for 12 hours? Hey, even I've done that before. /I keed, I keed

12/30/08

Pat

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hbkim3651 wrote:

Obviously you have no idea of how grueling a Nascar race is. There isn't an athelete in ANY sport who could do what these men do in a single day.

Please refer to post #10 in this thread, in which I point out that DIFFICULTY IS EFFING IRRELEVANT.

No one cares how hard it is to do something. No one cares how much they sweat. It's still boring to watch grown men drive around in circles for 4 hours.

12/30/08

chicachericola

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100%InjuryRate wrote:

You mean sitting in a car for 12 hours? Hey, even I've done that before.

/I keed, I keed

LOL!

I have to agree with Pat. I am a NASCAR fan but motorsports are a different kind of sport and can't be compared to the rest. They are in a league of their own. While physical endurance is a part of it, it's not everything. As much as I hate to throw my boy Tony Stewart under the bus, the guy isn't qualifying for the Boston Marathon any time soon. Neither is Jimmy Spencer. There are quite a few drivers who are not in the greatest shape and that is because enduring the elements and physical endurance are two different things. Could a lot of athletes get in a car and drive for hours in the blazing heat all the while reporting to the crew chief, paying attention to the other drivers trying not to crash going 200mph? Probably not. Could Tony Stewart run the Boston? I'll stick with no on that one. They can't be compared. So everyone unbunch your panties and return the thread to it's original topic.

12/30/08

ML31

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SkoalVikings wrote:

I agree with Pat, here in MN Golf is huge, more people play Golf here than just about any other sport. I would actually move Tiger's win up a couple of spots. Anyone who has played Golf knows it is one of the hardest sports to master and to beat a field of the world's best players with a bad knee (knees are very important in a Golf swing) is an epic achievement.

IRL is probably more popular worldwide than NASCAR, most of the rest of the world are big open wheeled racing fans.

How can anyone say that the NCAA Championship game is not one of the biggest sports stories of the year?

How can anyone say that the NCAA Championship game is not one of the biggest sports stories of the year?

I can. I don't think basketball lends itself to excitement. Let alone MINOR league basketball. Which is all the NCAA really is.

If a (yawn) college basketball game can be on the list, where the heck is Fresno State winning the College World Series? A bigger college sports story from 2008 cannot be found.

12/30/08

streetballer123

0	Michael Phelps is a beast.

12/30/08

SkoalVikings

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ML31 wrote:

How can anyone say that the NCAA Championship game is not one of the biggest sports stories of the year?

I can. I don't think basketball lends itself to excitement. Let alone MINOR league basketball. Which is all the NCAA really is.

If a (yawn) college basketball game can be on the list, where the heck is Fresno State winning the College World Series? A bigger college sports story from 2008 cannot be found.

you've gotta be out of your damn mind.

You may not like NCAA basketball but that doesn't disqualify it from being one of the top sports moments of the year. Remember, we're talking what the biggest story, not your favorite or least favorite sport. College baseball is on not on the national radar because everyone knows that many of the best baseball players in the world (who are college age) are either already playing MLB or in the minors someplace . Fresno State winning may be the most shocking upset of the year but since nobody really watches or seems to care for college baseball (I follow baseball myself and don't find college baseball appealing) it cannot be in the top ten "moments" of the year.

12/30/08

brianmc0331

4	hbkim3651 wrote: Obviously you have no idea of how grueling a Nascar race is. There isn't an athelete in ANY sport who could do what these men do in a single day. Just want to take some time out of my day to LOL at you and that ridiculous comment.......

12/30/08

ML31

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SkoalVikings wrote:

you've gotta be out of your damn mind.

You may not like NCAA basketball but that doesn't disqualify it from being one of the top sports moments of the year. Remember, we're talking what the biggest story, not your favorite or least favorite sport. College baseball is on not on the national radar because everyone knows that many of the best baseball players in the world (who are college age) are either already playing MLB or in the minors someplace . Fresno State winning may be the most shocking upset of the year but since nobody really watches or seems to care for college baseball (I follow baseball myself and don't find college baseball appealing) it cannot be in the top ten "moments" of the year.

College sports is a regional thing anyway. In the area I live, no one, and I mean NO ONE gives a crap about them. Even the off years the local schools are good, they only garner a small write up in the papers and few speak about it on the air. There is a college basketball title game every year. What made this year's game so special that it garners a top story nod? FSU was a far bigger story to anyone who pays attention. The smaller spotlight does not make the story any less meaningful. Anyone who poo-poos the FSU story is doing so only because they don't care for that event.

That is the reason I think the writer of the above article put the (yawn) NBA finals ahead of the Stanley Cup finals. Both series' went 6 games. Yet the Pens-Wings final was far more intriguing and entertaining that the Celtics-Lakers overhyped bore fest.

12/30/08

beerstudk

0	das3cr wrote: No mention of Jimmie Johnson wining a 3rd consecutive Cup title? WTF? I'd say that list of top 10's missed it by a mile. That's because NASCAR isn't a sport...... I also don't agree with Tiger's US Open win or the IRL event on the list either for the same reason.

12/30/08

Pat

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Pat wrote:

Unfortunately, NASCAR isn't really something that lends itself to "top 10 moments" unless there's a huge crash and someone dies or something.

The fact that this comment was voted Top Comment AND hidden due to PQ's proves my point. Some people are fanatical about NASCAR, and will defend it excessively. Everyone else doesn't give a crap about it, and sees it as a big joke.

Nothing I said in that comment was offensive, or worthy of a PQ, it's just a fact that there are a ton of people who have zero interest in NASCAR. Sure there are are a ton of fans, too, but there really aren't too many people who just kinda like it a little bit, like many other sports. NASCAR is pretty much a love-hate thing.

12/30/08

chicachericola

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Pat wrote:

The fact that this comment was voted Top Comment AND hidden due to PQ's proves my point. Some people are fanatical about NASCAR, and will defend it excessively. Everyone else doesn't give a crap about it, and sees it as a big joke.

Nothing I said in that comment was offensive, or worthy of a PQ, it's just a fact that there are a ton of people who have zero interest in NASCAR. Sure there are are a ton of fans, too, but there really aren't too many people who just kinda like it a little bit, like many other sports. NASCAR is pretty much a love-hate thing.

You got poor quality for that? You guys need to have a top pq list of the day so we can harass those that misuse the option.

12/30/08

RichmondSpider

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das3cr wrote:

If that is true, then how can we call Golf a sport? And I'd love to see you try racing on I-64. It should make a great high light for news at nine.

Endurance - yes, ability to tollerate unbelieveable heat - yes, ability to turn left - yes, a sport, where the sportsman actually does something and uses his body and his skill to compete, not in a million years - you can never make me believe that - NASCAR may be a sport if you strech it, but NASCAR drivers, no way - and this comes from a Southern boy who was born in Charlotte and lived for 30+ years about 45 minutes from Daytona. How is THAT for a run-on sentence!

12/30/08

gearhead

1	For the record, I had nothing to do with Mike including the IndyCar race here, but it sure put a on my face.

12/30/08

das3cr

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SkoalVikings wrote:

you've gotta be out of your damn mind.

You may not like NCAA basketball but that doesn't disqualify it from being one of the top sports moments of the year. Remember, we're talking what the biggest story, not your favorite or least favorite sport. College baseball is on not on the national radar because everyone knows that many of the best baseball players in the world (who are college age) are either already playing MLB or in the minors someplace . Fresno State winning may be the most shocking upset of the year but since nobody really watches or seems to care for college baseball (I follow baseball myself and don't find college baseball appealing) it cannot be in the top ten "moments" of the year.

Sorry, can't agree. Maybe, the winner of the BCS Champ game will make a top story. IMO. But some random hoop game, not.

12/30/08

Pat

1	das3cr wrote: Sorry, can't agree. Maybe, the winner of the BCS Champ game will make a top story. IMO. But some random hoop game, not. How is the NCAA Championship a "random hoop game"? That's like saying that the Daytona 500 is just some random bunch of guys driving around.

12/30/08

das3cr

2	Oh, it was a championship game? I can never tell where that season starts and where it ends.

12/30/08

Pat

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das3cr wrote:

Oh, it was a championship game? I can never tell where that season starts and where it ends.

It's actually pretty simple. They end the season every year with this thing called a tournament. "March Madness" is what most people call it. You may have heard of it. And if you win, you move on. Once you lose, you're out. Unlike the BCS that you mentioned earlier, which doesn't really determine a true champion, or your beloved NASCAR, which depends on some convoluted points system, and teams that aren't really teams.

12/30/08

das3cr

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Oh, you mean after playing 1000 games that mean nothing to anyone, and 56 weeks of regular season, they have a play off?

You mean like the points race at the end of the race season? I see now, I get it.

It's like golf being a sport, just like bowling, darts and billiards are sports. They have a play off and call it a championship. LOL Bah, Basketball is an almost sport, almost enjoyed, but mostly just cursed at for interrupting the regularly scheduled program.

Keep drinking that koolaid.

12/30/08

barmarjeff

0	I think Josh Hamilton should have been higher. For me, the NBA has been irrelevant since MJ retired. I would have also liked to have seen Stephen Curry's March Madness at 10. I agree with Pat about Nascar sucking.

12/30/08

JrCanuckFan

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Pat wrote:

The fact that this comment was voted Top Comment AND hidden due to PQ's proves my point. Some people are fanatical about NASCAR, and will defend it excessively. Everyone else doesn't give a crap about it, and sees it as a big joke.

Nothing I said in that comment was offensive, or worthy of a PQ, it's just a fact that there are a ton of people who have zero interest in NASCAR. Sure there are are a ton of fans, too, but there really aren't too many people who just kinda like it a little bit, like many other sports. NASCAR is pretty much a love-hate thing.

Sorry Pat, I disagree. I understand why your comment was PQ and it has nothing to do with NASCAR fans being fanatical or defencing our sport to the death. It was the fact that you meantion DEATH. NASCAR's hero died on the last lap of the Daytona 500, a fact that no NASCAR fan will ever forget. Your comment "and someone dies or something" is what we find so offensive. I didn't find this past year overly exciting as far as NASCAR was concerned, so have no problem with JJ's threepeat not making the list. I do have a problem with your stating a death makes a race exciting.

12/30/08

SusanVette

1	OMG, can't we all just get along? My vote is for Michael Phelps. Now he is a machine...

12/30/08

seal_warrior1

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My goodness! Boys.. seems to me you could all put together your top picks and put em right here to be Thumbs Ups or whatever. The proof is in the pudding,eh? And with all the different favorites.. Maybe you'll actually pull together a top 10 list you can all enjoy! If not.. Blog that baby! Get YOUR fav moment on video.. Stick it out here and let all enjoy! Good luck guys!

Nice job Mike!! Ya woke em up!

BTW... I'm wondering why the longest, most grueling tennis match in tennis history between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon didn't make the Top 10! Is tennis a sport? *grins*

12/30/08

Pat

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JrCanuckFan wrote:

Sorry Pat, I disagree. I understand why your comment was PQ and it has nothing to do with NASCAR fans being fanatical or defencing our sport to the death. It was the fact that you meantion DEATH. NASCAR's hero died on the last lap of the Daytona 500, a fact that no NASCAR fan will ever forget. Your comment "and someone dies or something" is what we find so offensive. I didn't find this past year overly exciting as far as NASCAR was concerned, so have no problem with JJ's threepeat not making the list. I do have a problem with your stating a death makes a race exciting.

OMG... I MENTIONED DEATH!!!

Actually, I didn't say that death makes it exciting. I merely said that it's the only time that NASCAR lends itself to top 10 moments. And I stand by that statement 100%.

I also said that it was unfortunate, so it's not like I was celebrating that, or rubbing it in people's faces. You said it yourself... "NASCAR's hero died on the last lap of the Daytona 500, a fact that no NASCAR fan will ever forget". Everyone, NASCAR fan or not, remembers that. It was the most significant moment in the last 20 years of auto racing. That alone is proof that crashes and deaths are the most "top 10 moment" worthy events that NASCAR has to offer.

It's not inappropriate, it's not offensive, and I don't think it's good or anything. It's just the way it is. The fact that it received so many PQ's isn't a reflection of the quality of the comment, it's a reflection of the hypersensitivity of NASCAR fans.

12/30/08

seal_warrior1

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Pat wrote:

OMG... I MENTIONED DEATH!!!

Actually, I didn't say that death makes it exciting. I merely said that it's the only time that NASCAR lends itself to top 10 moments. And I stand by that statement 100%.

I also said that it was unfortunate, so it's not like I was celebrating that, or rubbing it in people's faces. You said it yourself... "NASCAR's hero died on the last lap of the Daytona 500, a fact that no NASCAR fan will ever forget". Everyone, NASCAR fan or not, remembers that. It was the most significant moment in the last 20 years of auto racing. That alone is proof that crashes and deaths are the most "top 10 moment" worthy events that NASCAR has to offer.

It's not inappropriate, it's not offensive, and I don't think it's good or anything. It's just the way it is. The fact that it received so many PQ's isn't a reflection of the quality of the comment, it's a reflection of the hypersensitivity of NASCAR fans.

OK.. 2 cents time again. I can't agree with that Pat.

You didn't just attack the sport, you attacked the integrity of the people who LOVE the sport. That's making it personal.. It's no longer a matter of YOU personally don't happen to agree, or YOU personally don't happen to like it, It became a matter of YOU attacking the people that disageee... Fair is fair... Everyone has their favorites and that's A-OK! What a boring world it would be if everyone thought exactly the same. I would suggest next time you attack the *sport* and not the fans, eh?

BTW... JUST because YOU think that's the way it is... DOESN'T necessarily MAKE your comment a FACT. Nor does it mean that your way IS the way it is. It's still an opinion to which you are, of course, entitled.

12/30/08

taylordanley

3	I think what we should be talking about here is not how boring Nascar is, but how beastly Micheal Phelps is! The USA just proved this year, once again, that we dominate sports.

12/30/08

Pat

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seal_warrior1 wrote:

OK.. 2 cents time again. I can't agree with that Pat.

You didn't just attack the sport, you attacked the integrity of the people who LOVE the sport. That's making it personal.. It's no longer a matter of YOU personally don't happen to agree, or YOU personally don't happen to like it, It became a matter of YOU attacking the people that disageee... Fair is fair... Everyone has their favorites and that's A-OK! What a boring world it would be if everyone thought exactly the same. I would suggest next time you attack the *sport* and not the fans, eh?

BTW... JUST because YOU think that's the way it is... DOESN'T necessarily MAKE your comment a FACT. Nor does it mean that your way IS the way it is. It's still an opinion to which you are, of course, entitled.

I have no idea where I did that. But ok.

12/30/08

JrCanuckFan

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Actually, I didn't say that death makes it exciting. I merely said that it's the only time that NASCAR lends itself to top 10 moments. And I stand by that statement 100%.

"NASCAR isn't really something that lends itself to "top 10 moments" unless there's a huge crash and someone dies or something."

That alone is proof that crashes and deaths are the most "top 10 moment" worthy events that NASCAR has to offer.

It's not inappropriate, it's not offensive

Okay Pat those are ALL quotes from your posts, and if you want to state that NASCAR isn't exciting, you have your opinion and I have mine. I don't expect everyone to find every sport exciting. I don't. It's the fact that you state death is the only thing that makes NASCAR worthy of a top 10 mention. And that fact that you don't find that "Inappropriate or offensive"
Seal is right, You have offended me by disrespecting the sport I LOVE. Sports fans have one thing in common - the love for their favorite sport, their favorite team. I would never dream of calling Boston teams down, because that isn't the way I am, I respect you for your passion. You don't respect us for ours.

12/30/08

TheBigThree

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Truth be told, the Olympics almost need to be grouped together and placed at the top. The laundry list of remarkable achievements committed to history at these Games was one of the single biggest sports stories of not only the year, but of my lifetime. Phelps obviously reigned supreme (and Bolt would have in any other Olympiad), but I found practically each moment in Beijing gripping. Sydney, Athens, and Atlanta do not compare.

That said, I think Tiger's Open deserves to be the biggest non-Olympic moment. I don't think we truly comprehend what he did. He won golf's most grueling championship on a completely shot leg. 20 miles of hiking. 100s of mph of torque on the knee. I'll put this succinctly:

There is one player in the history of golf who would've bothered to simply try playing in the tournament given his condition. And that one man won the freaking thing, 19 holes longer than scheduled, no less. If you allow that thought to sink in for a moment, it's completely mind-boggling, golf fan or not. His grit is simply superlative. When the man himself says it was his greatest major championship, it's gotta be nearly tops.

Great list, though.

12/31/08

chicachericola

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Wow, panties are still bunched over here on this thread. Give Pat a break. He didn't mean it in the context it was taken. While yes it could have been stated better, he has a point too, I don't think he was saying it was right but the fact of the matter is America is addicted to violence and NASCAR gets the spotlight when something gruesome happens. A three time champion isn't something that non-nascar fans are going to pay attention to. Is it right? No. It is reality? Yes. You can't blame Pat for that.