I agree with everything you said. Even though NASCAR "says" it is now
testing for steroids, I still think it's a 'roid rage thing for Carl.
I think he was using steroids before reaching the Cup level, and must
continue using them or get smaller and flabby. If steroids is his
problem, it's pretty sad. 'Roids or not, he can use some professional
help.
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:12:35 -0000, "polt8115"
<poltergeist8@
>In 2004, Carl Edwards did NOT lift to let Dale Jr in, a chaser if you
>will, and it sent Jr into the backstretch wall. Carl Edwards said after
>that incident, "It's not my job to lift". I thought, "All righty then.
>Let's see what happens on the 'what comes around' senario. Michigan,
>2007: going for the win, last lap, Edwards gets loose coming out of turn
>two, and Jr, well, it's not his job to lift, is it? Or is that just for
>Carl? Edwards goes into the pits on the cool down laps, while NASCAR
>sorts out the winner, and BAM! Comes out off pit road and slams the hell
>out of Jr's car whilst Jr has his hand out the window. He even visited
>Jr in victory lane, and Edwards actually put his hands on Jr, and it was
>reported that Jr told him that he was playing things the way Carl played
>it with him. He reminded Carl it's not his job to lift either, AND that
>if he didn't remove his hand, win or lose, he was going to not back
>down.
>
>In 2007, that's the same year that Edwards walked up to Kenseth, a man
>roughly half Carl's size, in the midst of an interview, and basically
>grabs him, stuffs him up against the wall, and then does that half
>cocked half punch towards Matty. Matt flinched, and Edwards laughed it
>off. Here's the funny, Edwards had been roughing Matty up there in
>Martinsville for several laps. Matt returned in kind, and Carl got spun.
>Carl Edwards bullied his own teammate on and off the track on national
>television. His explanation? The next day, he blamed all of his
>teammates for not 'inviting' him to things they do, and blamed Jack
>Roush for allowing them to exclude him, and not giving him the same
>stuff they get. He accepted NO blame for his own part.
>
>Then along comes him and Kyle Bush. Kyle did to Carl what Carl did to Jr
>at Michigan, however, in this instance, Edwards used the same bump and
>run that ever single driver in Nascar has ever used at Bristol. In 2008,
>during a wreck at Charlotte Motor Speedway, he turned down pit road to
>avoid the wreck, but he DID NOT LIFT. Nascar penalized him for it. He
>cussed Nascar out over the radio, and was called to the principal's
>office afterward.
>
>Then today. I read where someone here said, "kudos to Carl for teaching
>Brad a lesson". Um, Brad was on the yellow line, dead center of turns 1
>and 2, at 180 mph, and you can tell Brad lifted off the gas by how fast
>Bobby Labonte gained on Brad. Does not Carl's spotter have to accept
>blame for that one? OR if his spotter was saying, "one low, one low" and
>Carl dropped down anyway, then Carl wrecked himself. But, once again, he
>goes to the pits, gets the car fixed, and as Larry McReynolds put it,
>"I'm sorry, but you can see those white gloves in that 99 car turn
>right". Carl can say he didn't mean for that outcome to happen all day,
>but damn. I believe that this should be a self policing sport. It used
>to be one of the two ways drivers learned to respect each other. You
>either raced them clean and hard, or you wrecked them. Which ever one
>you did, you could expect the driver to do the same in kind. I remember
>when, in the 80's all the way through the mid 90's, everyone called Sr a
>dirty driver. He could be at times. But.... I have old vhs tapes of many
>races where Sr raced them hard and clean. I got one from 1989, Dover,
>spring race, the Peak Performance 400. Dale Earnhardt and Mark Martin
>put on a racing clinic for the world to see. Mark Martin raced the
>living hell out of Dale Sr for about 30 laps. Sr taking the high groove,
>Martin the low. and man was it cool as hell. Did you guys EVER hear of
>Dale Sr and Mark Martin having bad words for or against each other?
>Never. Respect. Martin was the new 'ish' guy, and Dale, already a
>champion three times over. Look at Sr and Dale Jarrett. Dale Sr once
>referred to Jarrett as "the best driver he'd ever raced".
>
>My point is this: Yeah, Kes has pissed some people off. All newcomers do
>that. Some come in like Kes has, which is the same as say, Kyle Busch
>did, the same as Ernie Irvan did, the same as Cale Yaroborough did, the
>Allison's, etc. Others come in like Mark Martin, Matt Kenseth, (Mark's
>student), Jeff Gordon, etc. They didn't wreck a bunch of people, nor did
>they back down. They did go out and respect those they raced and raced
>them hard and clean. They got the same in return, mostly.
>
>Carl Edwards, and his 'aww shucks' attitude hides something far more
>nefarious to me, and always has. and his antics today, which are within
>the idiom by which he retaliates and operates in these situations, need
>to be addressed a bit stronger by Nascar. If Kevin Harvick can be parked
>for a race because of acting similar, then why not Carl? After all, if
>anyone cares to remember, Edwards and his muscled out ego walked into
>Harvick's garage area the week after Carl did his bump draft in the
>center of turn three at Talladega and wrecked Harvick, and Kevin was
>very verbal about Carl's stupidity that week. So Cousin Carl decided it
>was time to go and "sort Kevin out" or, pull a Matt Kenseth, and much to
>Carl's dismay, and the surprise of everyone that saw it, Kevin planted
>Carl's ass on the hood of his car, and held his ass there whilst he let
>Carl know that he came to the wrong place to play that bully shit. Carl
>and Kevin have had no on track incidents since then... seems Carl
>learned some of what he was, by his account, teaching Kes.. respect.
>This Tuesday ought to be really interesting. That's always the day
>Nascar announces penalties for rule infractions and the what not. I am
>curious to see what they do. And, do they also pull Kes, Hamlin, and
>Montoya in there as well?
>We shall see.
>
>moi
>
>
>--- In NASCAR-Group@
>>
>> On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 13:54:15 -0800 (PST), willy
>> danceswithbeers@
>>
>> >What an ass!!!
>>
>> He can put on his "I'm a nice guy" act all he wants, but the truth
>> about Carl Edwards has been evident since his pit road assault of
>> Matt Kenseth a few years back. He's not fooling anyone.
>>
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