Hendrick's Disease

Yes, JJ took the pole away from Big Daddy but not without a tongue lashing later. Actually, that wouldn't surprise me. The HMS power up front... now that's something new. NOT!! With Shrub taking the Busch [AT&T] race and these two clowns on the front row for The Nextel [Sprint] race it's turned into a weekend of Hendrickism. I think I'll start a 12 step support group for those of us that suffer from this horrible disease. The opening intro to the meetings from said afflicted would be "Hi, my name is Wilbur and I have Hendrick's Disease."

The 12 steps are:

1] We admitted we were powerless over Hendrick dominance-that our lives became unmanageable.

2] Came to believe that the powers of RCR, DEI, JGR, RYR, Evernham, Penske and all other teams could restore our sanity.

3] Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of the pit Gremlins as we understood them.

4] Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of why we spend our days hating Hendrick.

5] Admitted to the Great Oval in the Sky, to ourselves and to a Hendrick lover the exact nature of their wrongs.

6] Were entirely ready to have Brian France remove all these defects of character from these fans.

7] Humbly told them to remove their shortcomings.

8] Made a list of all persons they had harmed, and became willing to help them make amends to them all.

9] Made direct face to face contact with all Hendrick fans wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10] Continued to take personal care to never become one of them and when we got close promptly admitted it.

11] Sought through other non-Hendrick fans to improve our conscious contact with the Gremlins, as we understood them, asking that they please focus all of their efforts at the Hendrick Camp and help them with the power to carry that out.

12] Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to all Hendrick fans, to persuade them to come over to the other side and practice these principles in all our affairs.

May the Gremlins be with you.

Footnote; Dale Jr. is exempt.