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I hope everyone's enjoying the Chase -- we're proud to have Brad, Jr. and Jeff of our DeVine 9 1/2 representing! Most spectacular, of course, is the mid-season surge of Brad, whose career took a stellar upturn just after Dixie and I personally met him in Daytona Beach, at the Discount Tires. Since that time, Brad has won FOUR Nationwide races and T... WO Cup races. Before that time, Brad had won just one Cup race this year. If anybody thinks they can show why Dixie and I should NOT claim some credit for Brad's turn-around, they need to speak up -- or better yet, shut up now, before they even start talking. I'm just saying. Stand on it, Brad, and make us all so proud! WETLANTA: It was bitter bad luck when a weeks-long drought across the Southland was broken by a tropical storm that, cruelly on cue, rained on the Atlanta Labor Day race. Despite the looming rain, Dixie and I tailgated at Atlanta Motor Speedway on Sunday afternoon, and we had an excellent time trolling around. We saw at least two other gay couples (all bears; the dressed-up Yorkie he was walking tipped us off about one guy). Another gay thing was people playing the Dale Earnhardt Jr. "cornhole" game. (Cornholing is very popular with speedway campers). We even got to hear the Lynyrd Skynyrd concert, which ended with an extra-long rendition of "Free Bird" (prompting Dixie to remind me how Homer Simpson once yelled "get to the good part!" at Skynyrd during this song.) Office work prohibited me from attending the race when it was run on Tuesday; it featured an exciting late-laps duel between Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon, who won. Before the weather intervened, this action-packed weekend featured victories by Ron Hornaday in Truck and Carl Edwards in Nationwide. But the Cup rain-out was a real bummer for many thousands of Atlanta race fans who now have just one chance a year to see NASCAR racing. I'll say it plain: the Atlanta region is big enough and important enough to have two Cup weekends a year -- and not the first weekend in March, either, like ...Read More