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Let me start by saying that I am not, never have been and never will be a Lance Dewease fan but you dumb shits calling that team Cherry Pickers have got to be Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest. They only show up at races where the best around, locals, AllStars and Outlaws are there and have a pretty damned good winning record in the process. Yea I know they didn't go to Knoxville. Cry me a river over that.  As for Hodnett and Wolf at Port, Hodnett said early in the season that they were chasing points this year, why I guess is more their busines than ours. For Wolf I hate to inform you but they could be preparing for the next couple of months because contrary to what some think if you want to make money racing sprint cars in Pa. Port is the place to be.

For cripes sake the 69k doesn't even travel much in PA.....They are nearly a two track team, and thats about it. They have faced the Outlaws twice this year with one win right? And the All Stars several times with what, two wins?  Out of eleven wins total this year, four have been at Port Royal and four at Williams Grove. So don't toot the horn on the winning record too hard. They are a very good team at home and that's it, until they do otherwise.

And the team themselves would totally agree with that assessment. They don't want to be anything other than what they are. They're a team built to run a specific schedule and they stick to it. There's a very fine science behind what they do. Their success is a product of the perfect partnership of owner/driver/crew chief who stick to a very particular method of doing things and they do it better than anyone. As a result, they're having the time of their lives and they're making some local history in the process. 

And the team themselves would totally agree with that assessment. They don't want to be anything other than what they are. They're a team built to run a specific schedule and they stick to it. There's a very fine science behind what they do. Their success is a product of the perfect partnership of owner/driver/crew chief who stick to a very particular method of doing things and they do it better than anyone. As a result, they're having the time of their lives and they're making some local history in the process. 

And that's the part that is really great. The team isn't out there overplaying their accomplishments......some of the fans are. I don't think any of us "outsiders" have issues with the team itself. At least I don't. When I give the nod to Hodnett being the better driver of the two it has nothing to do with Dewease not also being very good. I simply believe that Hodnett has proven himself more adept at doing well on the road. I'm also not aware of any midwest fans spouting off whenever a midwest driver pulls off a WoO or All Star win. After all, drivers with only 10-15 WoO wins over the course of a 20-30 year plus career sure isn't much to boast about. That's just enough wins (imo) to get recognized. Brian Brown only has four WoO wins and none of those on his home track. Does that diminish his accomplishments? Not really. He does have three seconds at the Nationals, and even though that is his home track, that's still a heck of an accomplishment for a top local driver. I get excited when my favorite drivers do well, but I do tend to consider stats and drivers career moves when doing comparisons and sharing my own thoughts about rankings, driver's accomplishments, etc......

This entire thread was started to bash away on teams and racers from Pennsylvania, and it's the people who getting bashed who are the problem? When it comes to these threads, you are always right in the middle of it bashing away on racers from outside your area. As soon as I saw the topic, I knew you would be in the thread slamming racers you don't even see race.

And the team themselves would totally agree with that assessment. They don't want to be anything other than what they are. They're a team built to run a specific schedule and they stick to it. There's a very fine science behind what they do. Their success is a product of the perfect partnership of owner/driver/crew chief who stick to a very particular method of doing things and they do it better than anyone. As a result, they're having the time of their lives and they're making some local history in the process. 

Quote me bashing!  If you think I'm bashing you're just plain too sensative. And I see them all race plenty, believe me.

We all know Posse is tough at home & doesn't travel much. This will go round & round for a long time, which is probably a good thing. Just like Packers vs. Bears, Yankees vs Red Sox etc

 "I have been rattling the Cheerleader chains in this forum for 20 + years"....

Some call it bashing, you call it "chain pulling"... same thing, different name

Have at it... we can take it

When is stating opinions, stats and comparisons "chain pulling"?     Only when someone doesn't want to see the stats? Too often some Posse fans (not you) state that the PA drivers do it to the WoO "all the time" or "always against the toughest fields in the country"  Why so much exaggeration??? Ain't it enough that the Posse drivers did represent the PA area pretty damn well at the Knoxville Nationals? Because they did. Why did some Posse fans get bent out of shape when I expressed how well CA was represented at the Nationals this year? And then I'm ridiculed for "thread jumping" or whatever.....some of the fans out east need to take a good hard look in the mirror.

My mistake, I got you confused with MSPN, who admitted to "pulling chains"

Its all in fun, everybody talks up their homeboys

I don't think anybody here is dissing the Cali drivers