The Media Man

The Media Man

A man of honor,
A man of speed.
A man full of knowledge,
You know what I mean?
There wasn’t much,
He didn’t know.
When it came to racing,
He was in the flow.
David Poole,
What else can I say?
My hero, My mentor,
Was lost today.
So with honor and love,
We shall now stand.
Just to remember the Media Man.

Dedicated in loving memory of David Poole,
there will never be another like him.

©2009 K. A. Steffek
All rights reserved

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New Poem, contest and WOOHOO in Texas!

Where do I start? The fact that Jeff Gordon finally beat his nemisis TMS? Talk about a Woohoo moment,lol... So Congrats to the 24 team, Jeff Gordon and Rick Hendrick on what I believe was his 176 team victory? Again a WOOHOO moment! So next should we do the new poem or the contest? Hmmmmmmm, decisions, decisions, decisions......

Memories of Adam

I remember a boy,
Then he was a man.
I remember his driving,
When he made his first stand.
At Texas Motor Speedway,
And his first Cup start!
I keep these memories,
Still in my heart.
Memories of Adam,
Four generations of men.
With a need for speed,
That I now understand.
So in his honor,
To make his dream come true.
A camp was built,
For ill kids to go to.
The first camp has been open,
For some years it has sat.
But money we need now,
As we pass the hat.
For one in Kansas, It will be so true.
A field of dreams,
For more kids to come and stay too.
So dig in those pockets,
The couch and your seat!
Give what you can,
The goal we must beat!
And if it’s dark,
Switch on a lamp.
For it’s all for The
Victory Junction Gang Camp!

©2009 K. A. Steffek
All rights reserved

Now on to the Contest and YOUR chance to win a FREE trip including everything but food/drinks. You get a PitPass for Eldora for The Prelude To The Dream! Round trip tickets, Hotel, and the chance to do something not alot of us get to do, hang out and around Professional drivers, in a Relaxed setting! (No Autographs please) Add hanging out with my buddy, Lee Roy Mercer, something I personally have done, just carry extra undies cos you may wet yourself when Lee Roy gets going! Lee Roy Mercer will sign autographs!! He loves too,lol.. This contest is free, But all proceeds of sales from "Greatest Threats" will benefit the Tony Stewart Foundation. Some of the proceeds from "Gone Racin" will also benefit the Tony Stewart Foundation. And there are some GREAT package deals on Lee Roy Mercer mechandise! Proceeds also go to the TSF!! Just giving out Charity money and trips, thats Warhead Records for ya! So the more bought means more money for The Tony Stewart Foundation!

So enter now for your chance to Win and Support The Tony Stewart Foundation, the Victory Junction Gang Camp II! And do not forget to order your 2009 NASCAR Day Pins!! See one of you in Eldora June 3rd!

http://www.LeeRoyMercer.com

And it's not fair, I was jonsing to be at TMS, Maybe I will make the November race!

Poet

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missed Martinsville

So I missed yesterday's race! A rarity for me! But when your morning starts with doing CPR to your neighbor, and his dying once at the hospital, makes a NASCAR race small for the day. Javier Chavez, My friend and neighbor died yesterday of a Heart attck, he was only 40. So please bear with me while my family mourns, and I get a handle on my depression, which is throwing fits at this moment. I know he is in a better place, But to watch my daughter and His son mourn, well it just tears my heart out! With his death, we agreed to take his German Shepard, Chyna. She is a sweet dog, and since I have been training her, his son wanted us to have her. For a 15 yr. old child, he now has to be a man. This weekend we will help him go through his Dad's things, and find homes for the animals he will be unable to take. Please keep us in your prayers this week, as we mourn his passin and try to move on.

Poet

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Yawn, Stretch, addiction and a contest to boot

My Name is Poet K. A. Steffek and I am addicted to Facebook,lol.. Okay yes I spend alot of time at Facebook, lots to do over there! So as I try to come out of my facebook coma I have to say I am for the most part enjoying the NASCAR season. On I think today's Rowdy Podcast the boys are talking to fellow facebook junkie, Kristian Alexis. I love this kid and usually try to write on his wall weekly. He has alot of racing talent and today's interview with our own Buck and Bass, add Cutler, I know will be informative and Rowdy fun, so be sure to tune in!
Now watch it will be tomorrow,lol...
Finally since I have gotten squat done on my third book, as far as intros, I have plenty of poems, just lacking the ambition to get at it, Inspiration comes to mind,lol.. But I do have something fun to share with you today: There be a FREE contest going on over at www.LeeRoyMercer.com
It has taken months of work, ask me I will tell you, playing phone tag is no fun when trying to get something done! Lookie there that kinda rythmes, hehehehe..... Mmmmmmm could Rowdy be my inspiration? No way no one ever pays any attention to me over here,lol.. Which is my fault, with my addiction... But I digress, here is the info on the contest:

The CONTEST is FREE to Enter, but we're asking those who Enter to have a Charitable Heart and pickup a copy of Lee Roy's new GREATEST THREATS or GONE RACIN' CD as Proceeds from those two Discs will benefit the Tony Stewart Foundation in support of Kyle Petty's new Victory Junction Gang Camp II, KC.

(1) Grand Prize WINNER Will Receive: (1) VIP Pit Pass, (1) Round Trip Airfare Ticket, and (2) Nights Hotel Accommodations.

WINNER will have FREE access to the Eldora Speedway facility, hangout with Lee Roy Mercer for the day in the Infield/Garage Area and get up close to Tony Stewart and many other drivers (in a laid back atmosphere) during the (Prelude To The Dream) Charity Race Pay-Per-View event held on 06/03/2009.

Again just head over to www.LeeRoyMercer.com and click the top banner...

Now I have some new pictures to post, we have a new baby goat I want to show off, His name is Boogidity

Poet

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Enough already

First off a Huge CONGRATULATIONS to Roush-Fenway, Jack Roush, Matt Kenseth and the whole 17 Dewalt Ford Fusion crew! Way to Go Matt! Didn't I forewarn ya'll about those Roush-Fenway boys this season?

Now, this is probably gonna make some people mad, but already after 1 race, I feel the need to stand up for my sport and it's competitors. Yesterday I had to leave the chat room, before my head exploded! The incident with BV and JR. was supposibly all Junior's fault, yet BV was the one who smacked into him and sent him under the double yellow. Now what happened next was partly Junior's fault, But it takes two to tango. And to compare the Cup incident to the Nationwide incident, when speaking of penalties, well I think the whole story should be told. Leffler's penalty on Saturday came after multiple incidents on the track, all with Leffler smacking into alot of cars! Sunday's incident, was Junior's First on the track incident. Now I am not saying Junior was innocent, what he did was bad, it tore up alot of stock cars. What I am saying is, until you have walked a mile in a CUP drivers shoes, we have no idea. I want to know why Junior's spotter didn't tell him he wasn't clear? Isn't that the spotter's job? So Both were guilty, BV and Junior! Both were being stupid, agressive and both caused alot of good cars to be wrecked! Why do we allow lap cars to start next to lead lap cars? And was I the only one who saw it coming, from the restart after the caution?

Now as in speaking of CUP drivers, If I hear one more person dogging Joey Lagano, I am gonna SCREAM! If you want to blame someone, Blame J.D. Gibbs, He was the one who added stupidity into the act. He is who thinks a 18 year old kid is ready for the pressures of driving a CUP car. Joey didn't get on his hands and knees and beg for Tony's old job, it was thrust upon him, So why blame Joey? I agree that Joey isn't ready for CUP and should have been made to spend a couple years in the lower levels of NASCAR. But everytime I suggest raising the age in Cup to 21, I get shot down! So until I get some support on raising the age, I am a lone soldier on that matter.

I feel really bad for the drivers who were taken out yesterday, what a way to start the season! And Kyle had a great car, but so did Matt,lol... So as we head off to California, I pray for no stupidity, but I also know this sport well enough, not to hold my breathe.

awwwww, sigh.. Welcome to another year of NASCAR, Maybe we will actually get some racing in,lol...

Poet

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Returning home

So this Saturday the NASCAR season kicks off with the Budweiser Shootout! Now to some, it just means that Racing has returned to the U.S., but to me, it means it's time to go home. So looking around, home looks ,well like home... Ahhh Rowdy, a home where you can relax, talk trash, and know you are loved! So as we headed off into the perverberial sunset, I ask:
What do you want from the NASCAR season this year? Besides great excitement, Great Racing, and great American men doing what they love? Who do you think will take it all this year? What's your take? What's your opinion? The racing season is upon us, which can only mean 1 thing:

IT'S TIME TO GET ROWDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Poet

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Drinking and driving? Now I'm mad

The decision to drink and drive is one of the few things that will rile me up. It is the stupidest action you can make. When you make the decision to climb behind the wheel of a vehicle weighing, well lets just use NASCAR’s weight of 3400 pounds. You become a moving weapon of mass destruction. Look I could care less if you wanna go and party, But Do Not Drink and then drive, when you do, you are endangering me and anyone else innocently driving this holiday season. In Houston earlier last week, a 13 year old child was hit by a drunk driver, seconds after getting off the bus, she was killed. She was layed to rest this past Sunday. This morning I read this, hence today’s blog. Anna Smith, daughter of Bruton Smith, we all know who he is. On December 10, Ms. Smith was involved in a single vehicle accident, which threw her approximently 40 feet. She remains in Carolina Medical Center, and has been charged with DWI and driving with a Revoked License. So this holiday season I am asking:

Please drink responsibly Either appoint a designated driver or take a cab when you go out to play. We want you with us next season, at a track near you!

Happy Holidays to you all

Stay warm and safe,

Poet

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Happy Holidays

So the season has arrived,
A time to give and give.
A time of year of season's joy,
A time to show some cheer.
So as the day draws near,
I'm simply here to say,
I hope ya'll truly have,
The best of holidays.

Merry Christmas and the happiest wishes for the New Year!

Poet

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Giving Thanks

So it is Thanksgiving week, and chief187 asked about traditions, which I really have none. I cook, we pray, they eat til they are stuffed like the butterball was,lol.. Marty shared his story, and WOW, I had to thank him for what he and his wife do for our soldiers. Now that got me thinking about the thousands, no hundreds of thousands of Proud men and Women, who will stand on that wall on Thanksgiving, then will report to the mess tent and eat a military prepared thanksgiving dinner. Before beginning, they will pray! At home their families will also pray, for the safety of their loved one this Thanksgiving, as will my family. So when asked what I am most thankful for?

The United States Military, is always my answer. That my freedom rests in the hands of proud, brave men and women, makes me secure. So as you sit down to eat, remember those brave souls, and the sacrifice they are willing to make, to keep YOU and I free!

A friend, who has served this proud nation for 26 years forwarded to me the following phrase, The army is trying to find out, just who originally said it for me.

Veteran- A person who wrote a blank check, made payable to the United States of America, For an amount up to, and including their life. That is Honor.
~Anonymous

Happy Thanksgiving!

Poet

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History in the making, and ABC is just stupid!

1978- Cale Yarborough motors his way into the NASCAR history books, at Rockingham. With two more venues remaining: Atlanta, Ga. and the season ending race in Ontario, Canada, Cale clinched his third-consecutive championship. And let me not forget, Cale sat on the pole for all three races mentioned above, pretty impressive! NASCAR was a mere thirty years old, I was a pup, at only 15.

2008- Jimmie Johnson, a current two time consecutive champion, is headed into the NASCAR history books, to sit with Cale, Maybe….

But I have to admit, I am excited! Tri-Peats as we all know, in this sport, just do not happen. It has been thirty years since we have seen even a possible chance at a Tri-peat, it says alot about the level of competition in the sport. In between the thirty years since Cale made history, we have seen, a seven time champion, in Dale Earnhardt. When he matched King Richard, he became only again the second man to make history in that catagory. Again Impressive, but then I love Dale, and to compare him to anyone is wrong in my eyes. Same holds true for King Richard, they both hold a special place in my childhood memories, and in my heart. So as Jimmie heads into Homestead, I am sending him my luck, well part of it, Come on, Cus Carl is loved by everyone, well except Happy,lol… So either way, I know that NASCAR will be represented by a true Champion, with heart. And of that I am proud. But I have already written a new poem if Jimmie wins, which I will post next week, if Jimmie does it.

The word Tri-peat, which I came up with makes sense, what do the boys run? Tri-ovals, so a Tri-peat makes sense for sport. What do ya’ll think? Do you like that term? I think it would make a great T-shirt,

Jimmie Johnson
Tri-peat Champion
2006-2007-2008

Now on to ABC, or the Awful Big Crap. Come on, 75 million fans, that is approximately what NASCAR has in fanbase, and they think we would rather watch America’s funniest videos? Duh, WE want racing! Suddenly I hear yodeling, wait is it Heidi? You would think they would learn. Now it didn’t take me long to find the race, moved without warning to ESPN2. ABC, you are run by a bunch of stupid heads,lol… Geez.. How long is their contract? Is there a escape clause? Like the few people who do watch ABC on Sunday evenings, couldn’t wait 36 more laps, give or take? I mean it was a red flag situation, so I went and checked on the Carolina Panther game, Which they Won! Living in Texas, I get maybe one Panther game a year, I remember when ABC, FOX, and CBS showed football on Sundays, at noon and three. Now we get like two games? And speaking of the NFL, when are they gonna wake up and do something about the Horrible officials, that oviously need glasses, cause they miss call more calls, what a joke the NFL is becoming, Because the league, like ABC is ran by a bunch of stupid heads.. Anyway I digress, I come back to that network, and my race is gone! Gumbling along I go.. Anyway, only Homestead remains, and I am missing the boys already..lol.. How long til Daytona?

Have a great week,

Poet

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