Staten Island
I got off the phone a little bit ago with a reporter from the Staten Island Advance newspaper. She had come across this blog post from last week and wondered if NASCAR fans thought Staten Island's rep had taken a hit after last week's public shouting, er, hearing.
The short veresion of what I told the reporter: Manhattan, Staten Island, Poughkipsee -- it's all Yankeetown to us down here.
The longer version: We don't really care about the land-use issue story that the Staten Island paper is covering and most SI residents are talking about. We're more interested in whether the Cup schedule will change and which tracks will lose a date (unless NASCAR lengthens the schedule) to a new track in NYC. In other words, the story (to us down here, anyway) has less to do with Staten Island and more to do with the evolution (or de-volution) of racin'.
So: Did I sum things up accurately? If this makes your head hurt, feel free to go back a post and say mean things about Kurt Busch and/or Jimmie Spencer.
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