Sokman'S Soapbox

Tighten your tinfoil hats, this may just blow your mind... Has Nascar been going through so many car changes the last few years to finally make sure Jr can contend for the Cup? Are they tailoring the cars to Jr's driving style to give him an advantage? And what about all of the track reconfigurations? Is Nascar setting the banking in the turns to Jr's specifications to give him an edge? It's A Conspiracy!

This is probably the only conspiracy theory I haven't heard since Daytona, & just figured the nuts were gonna start running out of coversation material soon.

Go Carl Go! Think Harvick's gonna win by a mile though. He's greased cheetah fast this weekend.

Good job Jr. Not a member of Jr Nation, but he ran a great race tonight.

Ziggler's rant backstage, Miz whining he's better than Ryder... who's next Heath Slater? Is this Vince's way of showing Punk anyone can cry about being misused & underappreciated? You know as well as I do Vince's ego won't let anyone have the last laugh on him... unless it's about football... or bodybuilders...

Haven't seen it yet, but was told he did a WWE-style promo on Justin Bieber, which would have to be hilarious.

Would it really look like a breakdancing competition?

The Man Called Sting, aka Borden with No Makeup? It really would be about the only thing they could do to honestly differentiate his WWE run with any other point in his career. Granted, given Borden's age vs target audience of WWE, this would obviously be doomed to fail, but let's be real, its probably going to anyway. But with all the talk of him being Raw GM & getting time on WWE Network, it could happen. Yeah, call me crazy, but Vince is crazier.

A petition was submitted to the We The People site that asked to put Daniel Bryan in the WM main event. It was reportedly pulled just short of 100K signatures. Had it reached 100K, the White House would have been required to address the situation, although not required to do anything about it however. Does the whole DB conspiracy run deeper than we thought? I bet the Free Masons, or Illuminati, are involved.

We've seen it before, most notably with the Melina/Morrison incidents. Granted, Punk & AJ are bigger draws than M&M, but Vince can be a mean, spiteful old man at times. Will AJ get punished for Punk's attitude? Will she side by her man & air her displeasure in the ring, whether by words or actions?

have reached an agreement? According to WrestleZone, it will include a 2015 HoF induction for Sting, giving him a year to work in WWE, face time on the new network, & a Sting dvd. I think this will be a disaster for WWE given Sting's age & WWE's target audience.

flip off the crowd & mock the "Yes" chant after winning the Rumble? If so, I find that pretty classless. So, the fans weren't happy about the outcome, but does that give him the right to act that way?

I missed it, but it must have worked.

Its no secret that Carl Edwards & John Cena are friends. Which would have more success in the other's profession?

Its no secret that Carl Edwards & John Cena are friends. Which would have more success in the other's profession?

Listening to Bobby P on TMD this morning, & he said rumors are going around that Newman will most likely go back to Penske in 2014 to make room for Harvick at SHR. They're talking about Penske fielding a 3rd car to accomodate this, so at least Joey isn't just a seat warmer this season. If this is true, who benefits more, Penske, SHR, or Ryan? As a Ford fan, I think it'd be great to cheer Ryan in a Blue Oval ride.

In the Jayski link Nostradammit posted in his Carl/JGR question, I saw where Andretti Autosports is looking into Nascar, and indicated they may be in talks with Roush and Ford. Would this open another door for even more open wheel drivers and their fans, and how do you think the loyal Nascar community will take it? I've talked to some fans that see it as a good thing, and some that look at it as an invasion by open wheelers simply looking for that big Nascar paycheck, which is considerably bigger from what I understand.

In the Jayski link Nostradammit posted in his Carl/JGR question, I saw where Andretti Autosports is looking into Nascar, and indicated they may be in talks with Roush and Ford. Would this open another door for even more open wheel drivers and their fans, and how do you think the loyal Nascar community will take it? I've talked to some fans that see it as a good thing, and some that look at it as an invasion by open wheelers simply looking for that big Nascar paycheck, which is considerably bigger from what I understand.