Miller high and not so high lites...

High, in fact, waaaay up. Spies does a tre' and takes every point possible.
Not only doesn't it get any better than that, it can't! Miller could well be
the stake in the heart of Mat's SB comeback, though if it is, he's probably
got an acting career down the line. (great stuff huh? I especially liked the
part where he jumped out of the ambulance and jogged back to the pits!

Yosh team, up for sure, but shouldn't you blow the crud off the bike
*before* you put new stuff on? (hey, it's just a thought..)

Miguel, way up. No, waay up, great weekend for the gray haired Rolex Red
rider. Think he wasn't lovin' bustin' Mat's chops on the last corner? And
what was all that bangin' with Jamie about? (Hmm, contract time?) A little
slip during the post race interview too, thanks HRC? Err, Honda USA...

Eboz, not so up. The R1 with him on it prolly would've been a box factor,
hope he's gonna be ok..

Tommy Hayden, WTF happened?

Jake, hope big red re-ups his ticket..

Rog, kinda up, but he looked a little sloppy. Hey, at least he didn't
crash..

FX, mostly a done deal for Hayes, but kudo's to Goby and how 'bout Bond's
boi Davies? While it isn't the end of the world as we know it, a Limey on
the box in the AMA is close. And did anyone notice Cardenas? Not too shabby
a weekend for the Columbian...

SSport, Hacking, Hacking and, well, Hacking, though the elevation, not to
mention some good Pirelli's prolly helped the Emgo boy's. Another great
race...

SStock, 2aron fades and Spies dominates, BBoz does better, but really needs
to find his long lost mojo..


Speed, while some may have reason to bitch, I was not one of them. Thanks
for not pre-empting R2 for a MGP wet race..
(Btw guys, always add at least a 1/2 hour to your Tivo time for a live
event, duh..)

MMP, I dunno, but on the tube it looks as dusty and hot as that other
dirt/snotball joint out west...

AMA, for Christ's sake guys, hire another VP and put him in charge of live
timing!

"Mark N" <menusbaum.DeleteThis@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:1182900068.587609.65450@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> I seem to recall the Hondas looking pretty good there last year,
> getting their only win in the post-HRC era. Btw, I caught Luddington
> coming out of the garage belching early Saturday afternoon, and I
> said, "The track giving you indigestion, Al?" and he respondes, "No,
> it's my rider"...

That's an interesting remark, hmm, his contract's up this year too I think.
A Yates and Miggy Jumpman show and Hayes moves up with Zemke?

>> Who would that be? Unless Rossi wants to try his luck in the states I
>> don't
>> see a whole bunch of choices out there at the moment that wouldn't be a
>> big
>> gamble..
>
> Two words: Colin Edwards. He's probably out at Yamaha, at least with
> the factory team, so it's some lease outfit or back to "W"SB. Why not
> offer the Big Check and get him back here? Close to home, lot's of
> days off, fans that actually like him.

I guess that's a possibility, he'd have a lot of time to play with all his
toys, but with who, Yam? I kinda' doubt he'd be interested in Honda, but
stranger things have happened..


And how about E-Boz?

I would really like to see Eric back in green..


Or Hayes,

Maybe, but then somebody's gotta go a Honda and I really think Miggy wants
another shot at 'Tona..
> who does most of Honda's winning these days?

In SB? Err, nobody..

Plus there's some veteran
> tester who lives on the IoM...

He's done, just not done enough for BSB..

You read the Jordan interview? Sounds like he might be in a position to
throw some weight around and when Duc gets the 1200 in I wouldn't be
surprised if he is their team.. (Jumpman Ducati?)

>
> Well, three is a real stretch, and they're not going to pull him from
> SSport. So that leaves SB, and my guess would be they'd either give
> that to Rapp (not working in FX that weekend) or maybe a tryout for
> someone like Davies.

Rapp, Davies hasn't even seen the place yet..

> Nah, he's a bit too big for that, gotta lay off those donuts...

Gangsta' boi chunkin' out?

>
>> > All in all, probably the best track in the country. But you're a
>> > Florida
>> > swamp rat, so you obviously have no appreciation for anything west of
>> > Houston! At least the tracks out here don't measure elevation change by
>> > how far up you go on the banking...
>>
>> Now, now, I like a lot a places out west and though I've never been to
>> MMP I
>> have been just down the road to the Salt Flats, btw, one of (if not the
>> one)
>> the god awfulest places on this planet..
>
> MMP isn't quite Bonneville. It's more like Willow without all the
> wind, and not that far removed from places like Sears or Laguna. It's
> arid out here, man, which isn't all bad. Can't tell you the last time
> I got a misquito bite at a race...

Tell you what, c'mon down to 'Tona next year and I'll hook you up with a few
and if you just can't wait, I'm sure Tweak can set you up with some at RA..

>>
>> Trust me on this, I'd be somewhere that had a/c! I made my bones decades
>> ago
>> slumming, camping and generally abusing myself at race tracks, these days
>> I
>> like shade and cool, of course, food and drink are good too...
>> Heh, it looked real good from where I was sittin', cold beer, great food,
>> no
>> line to piss, a big screen Mitsu and a pause buttom. Oh yeah, did I
>> mention
>> A/C?
>
> Now you're sounding like one of our British compatriots!

Ouch! Uncalled for, that..

When was the
> last time we heard about one of them actually attending a race?
> Anyway, it wasn't all that bad out there, I liked it fine. May not
> have topped 100 while I was there, and, as they say, it's a dry heat...

Dry? Yeah, like a raisin..