AverageJoesGym

I had planned to go to these games when the schedule came out. Unfortunately, having a baby and trying to get a house built used up more vacation days than I had planned. I have to save a few to get to my son's football games at EKU so I'm in Roanoke, VA this week. I'd normally be pulling hard for the Sox and giving you guys a hard time when they kicked the Reds butts. However, you guys need these games pretty bad so I'll hope you get a split...:thumb:

Ummm because at that point Ward was right at the nose of his own car and walking parallel to his car, not darting down the track? His own car would offer him protection there. Whether that driver saw him or not he wasn't going to run into the wrecked car and Ward wasn't moving down the track.

This guy was right with Brown when the entire incident occurred. If the witness or Brown were guilty of any wrongdoing I'm sure he wouldn't say so. That makes me take the description of the altercation with a grain of salt. That being said if Brown were shot in the back while running away with his hands up after the initial altercation and shot again while lying on the ground after being wounded it sounds really bad.

It's a lead story on the New York Times website right now: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/13/us/if-they-gunned-me-down-protest-on-twitter.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LargeMediaHeadlineSum&module=photo-spot-region&region=photo-spot&WT.nav=photo-spot&_r=0

I couldn't measure it to the foot but it looks pretty darn close. At least close enough that I don't think Stewart was up there looking for trouble--there just wasn't enough time to get up that high unless he was already up there. As for Ward pointing and gesturing I don't think he cared whether Stewart saw him or not at that point. He's seen Stewart and others do it in NASCAR and I'd bet he was doing it for the crowd's benefit. It isn't like this was a NASCAR track where the driver that you're pointing at could see you for 1/2 mile or better as they were approaching you.

According to witnesses he wasn't when he was shot the first time but he was on the second shot. Here's what a witness that was with Brown had to say: Eyewitness to Michael Brown shooting recounts his friend's death | MSNBC

Two reasons: 1) Stewart was following around 2 seconds behind the first car. I'm sure he was directing at least some of his attention to that car along with the wrecked car and any emergency vehicles. I doubt his first thought was that there might be someone charging his car. 2) I've said it several times: Ward continued to move lower on the track. If he'd have been in the same place that he was when the previous car passed him he wouldn't have been hit by Stewart. More than one driver has said that the peripheral vision in those cars are not good. The guy moved further down the track towards a car that was moving forward at 40 mph. It is simple physics, that greatly cut down on the angles available to Stewart to dodge him--if he even had time to see him move down the track.

But the guy moved further down the track, that is obvious from the video. If you were Stewart should you expect the guy to keep moving into the path of your car? Especially if your view was somewhat obstructed by the car in front of you? If you're saying that Stewart could have missed him just as easily then you are saying he straight up murdered the kid. I think that's just ridiculous--no way that happened. Why would Stewart have been that mad? He wasn't the one that wrecked, he was still running the race. There just wasn't time for this stuff to happen. There were about 5 seconds from the time that the kid cleared the back of his car until he was hit. He was moving down the track closer and closer to the passing cars during this time. I just don't buy that Stewart, who wasn't wrecked, spotted him, got mad and tried to scare him in that length of time--all while having to keep an eye on the other cars. And I don't buy for a second that he could have missed him and didn't.

I would have went to the Red Sox game where they were presented with their World Series rings.

Yes, Ward appeared to take another step down the track just as the first car cleared him. He wasn't ran over by Stewart--he was hit by the rear wheel. That one step was enough to get him hit. And like I said before, the guy wouldn't really have been visible to anyone until about 4 seconds before he was hit...I don't think that is enough time for Stewart to decide he was upset and then decide to scare the guys, I just don't. I have no strong feelings towards Stewart either way, I'm just trying to look at this logically without taking past practices in general or Stewart's past behavior in particular into account.

I just looked at it one more time. Ward first started to dart down the track at 33 seconds. He was hit at 36 seconds. In 3 seconds Stewart was able to tell that he was going to dart down the track, formulated a plan to show him up or scare him and then hit him? He didn't even get out from behind his car until the 29 second mark and didn't clear the front of it until the 31 second mark. I just don't see how Stewart had time to see him, get ticked off and decide to show him up in 4-5 seconds when he was following another car. It just doesn't add up.

Something to think about. Kevin Ward didn't clear the rear of his car and begin quickly moving lower on the track until the 31 second mark of the video. At least one car appears to pass within 5 feet of him as he starts his descent. He continues to try and position himself to get further down on the track to get closer to where Stewart will pass. The car in front of Stewart appeared to miss him by less than 3 feet. The rear of that car only cleared him at the 34 second mark. At the 36 second mark Stewart hit him. That means that coming out of a curve Stewart had less than 2 seconds to see Ward and avoid him. Stewart appeared to be running the exact same line as the car in front of him but you can see as he was hit that Ward had continued to move further down on the track. In an interview on ESPN today a veteran dirt track racer said that the peripheral vision in those cars is not good. Ward was only clear of his car for 5-6 seconds at most. I just find it hard to believe that Stewart had time to see that Ward was out of his car, get mad, decide to run as close to him as possible to scare him/show him up. There just wasn't time. More likely he was following the car in front of him and saw Ward at the last second, tried to swerve to miss him or even as a reflex, and clipped him with the rear tire. The timeline just doesn't add up for it to be anything other than a tragic accident.

To make it worse several of the scientists featured in these mockumentaries had their answers to interview questions spliced together and edited to look like they were willing participants in the shows. They did not know the actual subject matter and were not participating in a search of these giant sharks. Shark Week Lied to Scientists to Get Them to Appear in "Documentaries" I'm thinking about skipping Shark Week as long as they do this stuff. The Nat Geo Channel has some cool shark shows as well...

The Fisher King, Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society were probably my favorite. I always really like The Best of Times, where they go back and replay a high school football game as well.

Would that also be the cause of death from starting a car in a closed garage? Either way it is an extremely sad day in the entertainment industry. R.I.P. Robin Williams, thanks for all the laughs along the way. Godspeed.

I hate the mockumentaries. It goes completely against the Discovery Channel's supposed message of shark conservation to use a 30-40 great white shark to scare people.

Poorly. The acting this season has been very, very bad as well.

They think they are protestors. Here's a quote from one: DeAndre Smith, 30, said members of the community were “fighting back” against the police when they ransacked and torched the QuikTrip near West Florissant and Ferguson Avenue, which is now a heap of burnt debris and twisted steel, after a Ferguson police officer shot and killed teenager Mike Brown. “This is exactly what’s supposed to happen when an injustice is happening in your community when you have kids getting killed for nothing, when they’re out here minding their own business doing nothing,” he told a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter while pointing at the smoldering gas station behind him. “You can lock them up, teach them, hold them but at the same time you ain’t got to kill them.”

This season went completely in the toilet. I suppose I'll watch til the end since I have so much time already invested but it has stunk. It doesn't even make any sense at this point. Why would Junior be convinced that Lyle killed Angie and was trying to kill all "4 Hands"? If he wanted to have done that Junior would have already been dead when Lyle knocked him out with the shovel...

That's playoff chances, not the chances of winning the division. That includes getting the last wildcard spot.

The Bushwood Country Club Gophers select, Donald Brown, RB San Diego.

It is almost exactly the same as it was last week. If the Brewers play basically .500 baseball over their last 47 games the Reds have to go 28-19. If the Brewers continue to win at their .548 clip the Reds have to go 30-17 which is a .638 percentage--no one in baseball has a winning percentage that high. That is why those projections are relevant this late in the season in regards to each team's playoff chances.

You're just talking from a beer standpoint, right?

The Bushwood Country Club Gophers select Jordan Matthews, WR Philadelphia.

The final play of Friday Night Lights when Permian comes up short and they're consoling the players.