Track Schmak

The 20 team blew it this week, and we schmaked it.

Also news of the week, including Trevor Bane, Mark Martin's retirement? (again), Jeff Burton's plans, MWR's plans (are they one and the same?), and Travis Pastrana quitting NASCAR.

Picks for next week:

Coach: Brad Keselowski

Rob: Kevin Harvick

Not much happened on the track, but we still found plenty of schlock to schmak about.

It's a fun, almost end-of-the-season schmak.

Picks for next week:

Rob: Brad Keselowski

Coach: Dale Jr.

A spectacular race deserves a spectacular schmak! Instead, we offer this week's schmak, dealing with such issues as the Kevin Harvick and Richard Childress remarks, the racing, and of course, the schmak t-shirt party, now scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 17th, at Cronies Sports Grill!

Picks for next week at Texas:

Coach: Kyle Busch

Rob: Dale Jr.

This week we cover the news of the Air Titan's palns for 2014, Todd Parrot's parties of 2013, Elephant hunting parties of 2012 (and Go Daddy "commitments"), and a whole lot of stuff.

Also, the boring race with the bored announcers allowed us to produce one of the best ever episodes of the schmak.

Picks for Martinsville 2:

Coach: Jeff Gordon

Rob: Kyle Busch

Happy 100th episode y'all!

We celebrate like we started - late, drunk, and mostly off-topic.

This episode has everything - songs, rants, and all sorts of late night hilarity.

Picks for next week at Talladega:

Coach: Jamie McMurray

Rob: Matt Kenseth

This week we take on the race at Kansas, and schmak a bunch of news, including the Kvapil wife-beating incident.

Picks for next week at Charlotte:

Coach: Kevin Harvick

Rob: Kurt Busch

This week we ask the question that everyone should be asking - has there been any improvement to the TV coverage since 2001?

Also, we schmak the race, the championship, and the alternate reality elimination championship.

Picks for next week:

Coach: Clint Bowyer

Rob: Martin Truex Jr.

This week we schmak about all things chase, sponsorship, New Hampshire race, you know, all the things that there are to schmak about.

Picks for next week:

Rob: Jeff Gordon

Coach: Jimmie Johnson

Our picks for the championship are currently 1-2 in the standings, and another chase driver has been erased in disgrace from our Alternate Race in the Chase.

For those playing the home game, we take the lowest finishing chase driver and eliminate him from the competition, which will leave us with 4 drivers competing for the title at Homestead (would have been 3 without the extra chaser).

After the second race in the chase, we have the following drivers still in the chase:

Matt Kenseth

Jimmie Johnson

Kyle Busch

Kevin Harvick

Carl Edwards

Greg Biffle

Clint Bowyer

Dale Earnheardt Jr.

Kurt Busch

Ryan Newman

Jeff Gordon

Elminated so far:

Joey Logano (eliminated race 1 - Chicagoland)

Kasey Kahne (eliminated race 2 - New Hampshire)

Recorded on Monday night, it took me until now to edit this thing and post it. Big week.

Anyway, we offer our punchy, tired, and yet very entertaining take on all the changes announced right before (and during) the race at Chicagoland.

We also discuss our mutual misunderstanding about who was picking whom for the chase championship (spoiler: neither of us wanted Carl Edwards).

New picks for the chase:

Rob: Matt Kenseth (most likely to win)

Coach: Kyle Busch (gotta pick someone).

Also - T-shirts have arrived! Party Planning to commence.

Picks for next week at New Hampshire:

Coach: Kurt Busch

Rob: Jimmie Johnson

This week, we address the super-blatant cheating of the race at Richmond, and even include a poorly acted skit! Also, our opinionated take on the penalties, and our Chicago Chase Race prognostications.

Picks for next week:

Coach: Matt Kenseth

Rob: Joey Logano