Shit. Between this calamity, Hunter-Reay’s new Batmobile, and the other goings-on of late, an Inbox of Opportunity is in order. Send in all your questions, rank speculation, conjecture, pot roast recipes, notable feats of blackmail, shoe-cobbling techniques, Colts predictions, or whatever else is on your mind that no decent publication would ever respond to. Because I will. I’ll get to the bottom of all this. Not really. But whatever.
(Quickly now. Don’t dawdle. For the odds that the Pagoda survives the week just got lowered by roughly infinity billion percent.)
By Hazel Riengardner, January 19, 2010 @ 7:12 pm
It’s a savage world out there, Hobbson!! I wake up this morning and damned near missed The Price is Right. I knew my day was going to be shit!! Now my best guy pal Tony has flown the coup and taken his puffy chest hair with him. What the hell am I, an old lady, to do? Thank God you mentioned pot roast because you reminded me I forgot to turn the damn crock pot on this morning with the roast in it. Now I have to microwave the goddamn thing. Have you ever eaten microwaved pot roast? Well, have you, pretty boy?? It tastes exactly like what you would think a microwaved pot roast would taste like! It tastes worse than those little pieces of crappy rubber that build up on the outside of the racing groove at Nashville. Oh wait, IndyCar don’t go to Nashville no more? No, they go other places. Do they still go to Indy? By the way, Hobbson, I haven’t gotten any action in 34 years. 34 GODDAMN YEARS!! Do you understand my I’m pissed?? Most of the fans of IndyCar aren’t even 34 years old. How the hell am I supposed to help grow the IndyCar fan base if I don’t get lovin’s in over 34 years?
Oh, and you want Colts predictions?? I predict the Jets are f’ed like a tied-up goat!! I seen them Mathis, and Freeney, and Brackett fellers poking each other with 10-penny finishing nails the other day. They says they was making themselves strong against the pain. I think theys is it nuts but I know them Jets are screwed. I predict that even with Matt Painter getting 12 minutes of playing time because Manning gets bored after 9 touchdowns in the first half, the Colts will still win 66-10, with Vinatieri kicking a last-second field goal just for good measure.
By Roy Hobbson, January 19, 2010 @ 7:58 pm
Sweet Jesus, Hazel.
By Jason Mcveigh, January 19, 2010 @ 8:03 pm
Seriously, that crack about the Pagoda maybe not surviving the week isn’t funny. The Pagoda is the most entertaining damn thing on Indycar.com and I promise you Indycar.com overlords, no pagoda = no more visits to the website. I appreciate there’s change afoot in Indycar and people are dropping out like flies but the silent pagoda is the last thing you have to stop you being like every other boring race league website. Embrace its uniqueness. Rant over!
By Catie, January 19, 2010 @ 8:29 pm
TG, now that he is “just an owner,” will band together with the other owners to start a new series because this one suc- oh wait, we’ve already been there.
By HooverOnTheWeb, January 20, 2010 @ 1:05 am
I’m as lost as a golf ball. I’m as lost as an Easter egg (appolgies to Darrell Waltrip). I have no idea what is going on. Pot roast is best in the crock pot. Use carrots, celery and potatoe. You can not use enough onion. Do not over season. Is this related to Cotman or the new car? Anton did not sync well with owners, now he only is one? Retirement? Maybe it is just that simple. Maybe beef broth would help with pot roast gravey. IDK. Try celery salt and Clabber Girl corn starch.
By William Shakespeare, January 20, 2010 @ 7:06 am
“Cowards die a thousand deaths, the valiant taste of death but once!”
Two deaths down Tony, 998 to go!
By Hamilton Fish, January 20, 2010 @ 9:29 am
I have it on good authority that Chuck Nevitt is putting some people together to field a team for the 2011 season. Pretty exciting stuff if it all pans out. Lots of work to still be done though. Will keep you posted if I get more info.
By DZ, January 20, 2010 @ 11:14 am
I can only echo Hoover’s comment (who a can only presume stole it from Towelie), I have no idea what’s goin’ on…
By Coz, January 20, 2010 @ 1:00 pm
TG did well in bringing great events to the IMS. I’ve been going to the 400 and F1 while it lasted. I got to see Schumaker chase Frentzen in the rain for the victory – now THAT’S excitement. But seriously, Schumaker is/was the best race car driver in his era. The 400 became an instant cornerstone race of N@875R. He upgraded the music played at the IMS, and brought in quality acts from Charlie Daniels to Aerosmith to Aaron Neville, and preserved the stalwart trooper Jim Nabors. The facility itself has been improved from the toilets to the New Pagoda, which became the inspiration for this fine blog, to the Pagoda Plaza, and even the “Wing & Wheel” logo being stamped on the concrete around the track. The food and even the beer has been very reasonably priced when compared to any major sporting event (I know that running out of your own beer supply seems almost as impossible as it would be improbable, but it has happened a couple of times). TG really looked at the IMS from a fan’s point of view. Was the IRL a lousy idea? In retrospect, yes. But not even Bob Ueker batted 1000. Did he take responsibility for it, and patch it up again eventually? Yes he did. And I will miss TG’s presence, majestically perched atop the final float in the 500 parade. Farewell, my friend!
The pencil pushers are now in charge, expect changes, and mostly not for the better for the fans. But like Douglas MacArthur, TG, shall return!
By Air Conditioner, January 20, 2010 @ 2:56 pm
Pot Roast:
Ingredients
1 (10.75 ounce) cans condensed cream of mushroom soup
1 (1 ounce) package dry onion soup mix
1 can beef broth
1 can French Onion soup
5 1/2 pounds pot roast
5 cloves of minced garlic
Directions
Brown meat and garlic in pan
In a slow cooker, mix cream of mushroom soup, dry onion soup mix and water. Place pot roast in slow cooker and coat with soup mixture.
Cook on High setting for 3 to 4 hours, or on Low setting for 8 to 9 hours.
By Rickenbacker, January 20, 2010 @ 4:37 pm
Has the Remax sign been placed at 16th and Georgetown yet?
By Coz, January 22, 2010 @ 7:40 pm
Unfortunately Roy, the lateness of my post will deprive many of my recipe for a fine soup, that, while not a pot roast, I will, never-the-less share here. It’s my Papa Cozmo’s “I’m Not Jewish But I’ve Had The Operation” Matzo Ball Soup.
You can make it either on the stove or in a crock pot.
1/2 Gallon of Chicken stock or 1/2 gallon water and 1 large tbs. chicken base.
1/4 cup Fresh Chopped Parsley
4 stalks of Celery with leaves washed well
1 or 2 carrots
1 medium Onion or 4-5 Green Onions or 2-Schallots
Chicken Tenders
1 Box of Manechevitz Matzo Ball Mix – Veg Oil – 1 Egg
Put the water and Chicken Base or the Swanson’s or whatever Chicken Broth you bought into the crock or pot, and turn on medium to med. low. Start chopping however you like it. I like my celery cut very thin, and I cut my carrots with a peeler, so I get round carrot slices in the soup. Also very thin. (You wanna know bad? A guy who can give himself a circumcision with a peeler) This really gives the broth a great flavor by cutting things thin. Cut up your onion of whatever variety you got, and throw the celery, carrots, and onion into the pot. Let it cook for about the time of the early game this Sunday. Take how ever much chicken you want to put into your soup, 1/2 lb., 1 lb., it’s up to you, and cut into pieces the size that you want. You can even leave the tenders whole if you like your soup chunky. Stir it up good. If the next game hasn’t started yet, then grab a beer and make the matzos: otherwise, wait until the next commercial break. Just follow the instructions on the Matzo Ball box, one of the two packets is good, but if you want a butt load of Matzo Balls, then make both. BEWARE: MATZO BALLS SWELL TO 4-5 TIMES OR MORE THEIR SIZE WHEN THE COOK!!! (INSERT OBVIOUS JOKE HERE) Add the Matzos at the next commercial, and wait until half time. Grab another beer and serve.
By Bill Lesshafft, January 28, 2010 @ 5:31 pm
Now not even a car owner.