Last week, just days prior to this year's perceived
riveting St Pete IndyCar season opener playing on Thy Telie', I was going thru
the No Fenders "Mailbox" and ran across an email touting IMS Hall of
Fame nominations and just about SPEWED my coffee!
Holy Underarmour Batman!
The name causing my agitation was Eddie
Cheever's, as seriously? He's being nominated for his outstanding TV
Broadcasting abilities, right? Oh yeah, I forgot he's indelibly etched in my
cranium as "EDDIE WHO?"
Which is what bob, my local grocery checker incredulously
asked upon casually asking me who'd won that year's Indy 500 as I stood at the
register apparently decked out in some of my racing finery...
The other two nominations totally deserve
being inducted, i.e.; Dario Franchitti
and McLaren, the Constructor, albeit Bruce
McLaren himself is totally worth inclusion, and hence perhaps you can
see my consternation towards whom I used to call Eddie
"Underacheever" Cheever being mentioned in the same breath!
Oh, I get I-T! He won the much ballyhooed
Indy 500 in 1998, and if Bobby Rahal, also a one-time 500 champion's been
inducted, then ditto Cheever, right?
Uhm, not so fast IMS! As let's recall that
Eddie won during the infamous fledgling IRL years before the B-I-G BOYZ', nee
Penske, Ganassi, Andretti and HELL! Even Team Rahal jumped ship, with Cheever
winning in a car sponsored by a defunct Potato Chips maker!
As how many championships; Err races has
Cheever won? As 'Ol Bobby's notched 24 W's and three titles along with his
single 500 victory. Like what's next, inducting Jack BRUT' Arute to the Hof?
As talk 'bout making
your blood boil, even before Duh Green flag flies; SHEEZ! As good thingy' I'm
outta here and will be Incommunicado the next Fortnight. Since if Cheever's
inducted then I'll know that the IMS Museum's a Crockery and should change its
moniker to Hall 'O Shame...
