Originally Posted by Roger Hood

Again,you folks are gettin' too sensitive for me. If he did, I'm sure it was a good natured & funny rib for takin' Scelzi out. I mean, he (Whit) had just taken Capps out so how could it be anything but a joke towards them & if I was on the Kalitta team that's exactly how I would have taken it. But then again I've never been that PC & hope I never am. I hope the racers never get that uptight either. What some people here think it's like to be part of that traveling circus & what it's really like to be with these teams is poles apart. You've been listening to too much ESPN's hype in their feeble attempts at creating something where there is nothing. Do you folks go to work every day & lock yourself into some corner office somewhere so as not to be offended by the mean ol' people in this world?
Hell, flip me the bird for voicing my opinion. I promise I won't take it personal & I'll get a good laugh out of it to boot. Jeez! ...................."HIP"

Originally Posted by Dalton Blevins

I tried to explain clearly that I could not care less what Whit said, so if that last part was aimed at me (not personally, but generally as one of the "most of you"), then I'll just chalk it up to you not reading the entire thread before posting...

On the otherhand though...I think one reason people didn't say much about John showing his butt was because it was on his TV show. They were watching it for the intent to see what John wanted to do with his time. (I know you were just making a point with that, but I am also using your same point)...

Whenever ANY driver, not just Whit says anything about ANY other driver or team, it gets blasted on here. There have been too many threads like that to name. I can't help it (nor can any other human being besides Mr. Bazemore) if Whit just happens to say this stuff more often than everyone else on camera. Call it having balls to say it on TV, or whatever you want, but you do it in the public eye, and people are going to comment on it. Sure, other drivers talk trash and whatnot, just not in EVERY dang interview they have.

I, for one, don't watch anything on TV but drag racing, and don't regularly visit any other website except this one and NHRA.com (for the most part). So, naturally, when I watch it, I do generally catch the comments people make, and he just happens to be the ones dishing out most of comments that cause a stir.

My dad always told me, "If you can't take it, don't dish it out." So given that standard, we can make a post a day about Whit quoting him, or "bashing him, " and there are just enough people on here to take up for him and what he give out to handle our dishing it back to him.

Originally Posted by Randy Goodwin

The Surgeon General estimates 12.6 hours of quality production and work time has been lost due to people typing opinions and reading posts about Whit flipping the bird.

Originally Posted by bruce mullins

NO it was not directed at YOU!

Originally Posted by Mike Larson

anybody notice how much press whit's (matco tools) gotten lately?
I'm sure Don S. and Whit have!
might had to have taken a punch to start it all (and a few timely comments)
but he's been in the limelight quite a bit lately.
not all together a bad thing when fighting (pun intended) for exposure
with 30+ other professional teams.

Originally Posted by Ginger Jackson

And I am sure the haters will blame Whit for that too!

So what....he flipped him the bird. Noone knows what was behind that. Until ya do.....SUSH already with every little move Whit makes. It may have been in jest. It may be a joke between them. It may be none of the above. Ooooh...it's about the "children"....yeah right! Ya don't think they see that on an expressway daily? Go to a Toys R Us at Christmastime....see how well behaved the public is. Whit can't be lookin for a camera every time he moves to make sure noone sees him. C'mon.....we live in the real world not some PC bubble. Quit trying to shelter so much.