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  1. Nice to know the top dogs got raises while they cut the regular Lilly employees pay by 10% last year!

  2. I like the Colts, but I will always love the Pacers. There is no greater moment from my Childhood than Reggie beating the knicks and than 2000 making it to the finals. No worse feeling than Prince blocking Reggie. The Colts losing sunday doesn't even stack up. Reggie put this place on the map.

  3. After reading how much more everybody was paid, I took my daily hit of Zyprexa and do feel better and am now very happy that those exec got 25%+ raises. Got to leave to start my 3rd job.

  4. Wow, actually a coherrent answer from you. I am proud. Sure it took months of wading through a lot of 2 cent answers, but it is almost worth it.

    The problem with the competition aspect among tires, maufacturers and even to some point teams really does not have much depth in series racing anymore.

    Take NASCAR. Other than sponsorship, there really is no Chevy, Ford, Dodge or Toyota cars running. On Sunday, pretty much the same cars with the same engines running on the same tires will be take the green flag. About the only difference is the stickers on the cars. I think the reason for that is cost. NASCAR runs the series on the cheap side to get more cars 43 or so per event and to attract the PBR crowd. Contrast that with F1 which really does have true competition with cars that are not cookie cutter. The trade off, high dollar racing that limits it to 20 cars at most, and ticket prices that make it available only to the Perier crowd.

    Cart appeared to try to be the F1 light. Fewer ovals, more foriegn drivers, more international races and attract the wealthier crowd. It did not work for them. In the end, it was as much spec racing as NASCAR.

    The IRL on the other hand tried to stay the true American open wheel series by keeping costs low, support American drivers, on ovals in America. It survives, but has compromised many of its original ideas supposedly to attract the former cart crowd.

    SO I would argue that there is little of the competition you want in racing today. Blowing up the IRL and starting from scratch certainly will not get it. I think the best thing is for the IRL to position itself to come out of the recession with a definite business model and stick to it. I think coming up with an all new car design and if it is the wingless prototype, then so be it. I have never stated status quo is good. I think the IRL made a mistake when it started catering to the cart crowd. The IRL should have stuck to its original vision. Such is life.



  5. Cart was so successful it went bankrupt twice. Got to love that kind of success.

    Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge. You have it down pretty well.

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