InkStainedWretch
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re: RIP: Parnelli Jones
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/5/24 at 9:54 am
I thought Orr had passed but it was Hull. ...
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re: RIP: Parnelli Jones
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/5/24 at 8:00 am
This is what ought to be in the dictionary under the listing "automobile racing driver."
[img]https://i.postimg.cc/bNjmQ4Dp/Parnelli-Jones.jpg[/img]...
re: RIP: Parnelli Jones
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/5/24 at 7:26 am
How many of the great sports icons of the 1960s are left? Mays and Koufax in baseball; Foyt, Petty and Andretti in racing; I think most of them in basketball, football and hockey have passed although I am probably missing someone. (I know Lee Roy Jordan is still with us but I am not sure he was univ...
re: RIP: Parnelli Jones
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/4/24 at 9:56 pm
Well I don’t know if I would go that far but when you mention Can-Am now you’re talking. Baddest arse cars there ever were. ...
re: RIP: Parnelli Jones
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/4/24 at 9:38 pm
I haven’t found it yet, but I saw on another racing forum that there supposedly exists a photo of Parnelli holding the winner’s trophy in Victory Lane after a sprint car race and his knuckles are skinned from the barroom fight he won the night before. ...
re: RIP: Parnelli Jones
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/4/24 at 9:33 pm
The TransAm series when he drove this car (prepared by Bud Moore) in it was awesome,...
re: RIP: Parnelli Jones
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/4/24 at 8:57 pm
True story: Parnelli, Bobby Unser and David Pearson were together at the Pike’s Peak Hill Climb back in the 1960s and Uncle Bobby and Parnelli pulled a great practical joke on Pearson. (Just imagine the coolness of all three of them hanging out like that.)
Pearson wanted to go up the course just ...
re: RIP: Parnelli Jones
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/4/24 at 8:46 pm
If he’d decided to come South full time, the NASCAR record book might look a bit different.
Supposedly he was the only man Foyt wouldn’t mess with. A.J. had some size on him, but Parnelli was an absolute bad arse down to his core....
RIP: Parnelli Jones
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/4/24 at 7:35 pm
The absolute epitome of coolness.
And as far as his skills as a wheelman, he was driving the Wood Brothers Mercury at Riverside in 1970 and the shifter broke off, but he grabbed the nub with his hand and started shifting gears and still led the race until his engine blew.
He had to start at th...
re: Deontay Wilder just got knocked the frick out
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/4/24 at 2:59 pm
Absolute truth. But sometimes you run into the wall. The great ones like Ali knew how to improvise and get past it. It's obvious Wilder doesn't....
re: Deontay Wilder just got knocked the frick out
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/4/24 at 12:37 pm
On the boxing forum I mentioned someone made a good point, that Wilder’s lack of an extensive amateur background is showing because if his big punch isn’t working he really doesn’t have anything else in his arsenal to fall back on. ...
re: 2024 NASCAR Season Thread
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/4/24 at 12:34 pm
Don’t insult the memory or legacy of the Three Stooges by comparing them to NASCAR....
re: Tucupita Marcano of the Padres and four other players possibly facing MLB lifetime ban
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/3/24 at 5:44 pm
This. It doesn’t matter if they set up slot machines and baccarat tables at the gates to every MLB park, players can’t bet on baseball, period, case closed, the end....
re: These WNBA thugs hate Caitlin Clark
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/3/24 at 12:12 pm
And if you watched First Take you will have heard Shannon Sharpe say that there are different rules for different people. You seem to be expecting some level of “fairness” here. You and the veteran players in the WNBA aren’t going to get that where Clark is concerned. Is what it is. ...
re: 2024 NASCAR Season Thread
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/3/24 at 12:04 pm
The problem is too many people on both sides … Indy car fans don’t have clean hands here either … think this is zero-sum game and view the “competing series” as an enemy to be destroyed because there’s only room for one of them. Which IMO is silly. They can co-exist. ...
re: 2024 NASCAR Season Thread
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/3/24 at 11:58 am
Did he aid a competing series or choose to compete in something that is a more than 100-year institution in motor sports?
Look, I have loved NASCAR for more than a half century of my life but this is the frickin’ Indy 500 …...
re: 2024 NASCAR Season Thread
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/2/24 at 5:44 pm
Yeah you can’t make that mistake …...
re: Deontay Wilder just got knocked the frick out
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/2/24 at 12:00 pm
I have zero hate for Wilder although I think calling him the most feared puncher in boxing history might be a stretch. (Joe Louis, Sonny Liston. George Foreman, Ernie Shavers and Mike Tyson say “Hey.”) And he had a compelling story, beat most of the people placed in front of him and achieved much.
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re: Deontay Wilder just got knocked the frick out
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/1/24 at 9:48 pm
He’s done, that’s why. He’s lost four of his last fights and has been KTFO in three of them. He needs to go to the house before his brain gets scrambled....
re: Deontay Wilder just got knocked the frick out
Posted by InkStainedWretch on 6/1/24 at 9:31 pm
On a boxing forum I frequent people are fussing that the fight was stopped too soon and saying Wilder ought not to retire and are speculating on who he needs to fight next.
I just posted, “You really want this guy to end up like Jerry Quarry?”...
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