Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there!

First my thoughts on the Nationwide race:

-- Congrats to Tony Stewart on his win.

-- What on earth happened with Mark Martin? I think someone made a really bad mistake to allow Martin to run out of gas with only like 3 laps to go. That little mishap caused a lot of wrecks.

-- There can't possibly be a bigger cry baby than Kyle Busch, period. Did you catch his interview after the race?

Sprint Cup:

-- Uugh, Kyle Busch won. Congrats to Racefan for picking the winner.

-- I am now 0-for-11. I think I will need to rename my entries where I throw my picks out there, "Who not to pick."

-- At the beginning of the night I wanted to try to keep track of all the drivers that scraped the wall. About the time they said 7 people had hit the wall and I could only account for four of them, I gave up. There sure were a lot of cautions. By the end of the race, I don't believe there was one driver who didn't kiss the wall.

-- What was the deal with Direct TV's issue with Fox last night. There was a message on the television screen that said something along the lines of... Please don't call us, we are having technical difficulties and are working on it.

YEAH RIGHT! Seriously, we called. And when they asked what the message said, Becky (our spokeswoman) said it says not to call but I did anyway. She asked them when we could expect it to be fixed. They said "within the hour."

Everyone ran to the kitchen and turned on MRN to listen to it. We missed seeing the Tony Stewart crash with Elliott Sadler but the channel was fixed immediately after that crash.

-- Clint Bowyer had a terrible night but still pulled off a 15th place finish.

-- What terrible luck for Greg Biffle who's car blew up. He really had the car to beat for a while there. I would have liked seeing him in victory lane again.

I'm never eating M&M's again. Period. End of story.

Ahhhh.....Darlington. I love this track (aka Lady in Black). My true Mainer accent shines bright when I say the name of this track -- pronounced DAHLINGTON, the track too tough to tame.

Storytime -- When I say it, it reminds me of a time I was visiting my friend down in North Carolina and a bunch of people were trying to "teach" me the proper way to say the word car and other various words with the letter R. I couldn't get it. I just cannot make myself pronounce that R the way they wanted me to.

We were drinking so of course we all were busting a gut laughing about it. It was like a game to them. We finally had to give up because I couldn't stop laughing. -- The end.

Back to Darlington. My pick this week is going to be Jeff Gordon. He's won here seven times. Seems like a logical pick. But as you know, I have typically jinxed my pick each week. I am 0-for-10. Actually, maybe people should start reading this blog to decide who NOT to pick.

How much do you love Dale Earnhardt Jr.? I got a a press conference transcript in my email and laughed when I read:

HAVE YOU AND KYLE BUSCH TALKED SINCE RICHMOND?
“No, we haven’t. We probably will. It ain’t no big deal. There ain’t no big rush.”

Well I for one, "ain't" jumping on the Kyle Busch band wagon anytime soon. Gotta love Junior. He's such a fantastic public speaker.

And one more thing... I'm not going to mention any names but I did receive a big, and I mean BIG bag of M&M's delivered to my desk at work yesterday. Very funny...Very funny!