Here's hoping Kyle Busch makes me look stupid
Kris Johnson
Kris Johnson joined Street & Smith's Sports Group in 2003. He is Assistant Managing Editor at NASCAR Illustrated and SceneDaily.com.
Past performance is no guarantee of future success.
Yeah, I get that. But Jimmie Johnson has a way of making you look stupid (some would suggest I need no help in that area; cue the comments below) when touting someone other than him to win the Sprint Cup Series championship.
It’s been like that for the past four years. Think about that in real terms: Your kid could have entered high school or college as a wet-behind-the-ears freshman, gone through all the growing pains typical of those years and emerged as a future leader of this country. Or maybe you’re the kid in question and back living in your parents’ basement.
That’s not the point, really. This is: All Johnson has done during the quadrennial is win, win, win and win when it comes to the only trophy that really matters.
You can’t pick against him right now. So, this year, and begrudgingly, I did not.
Johnson’s dominance has been so complete – we’re talking championships won now and not how they were achieved in the Chase format – that it has killed any real sense of competition.
It’s reminiscent of the movie “Bull Durham” when Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) instructs Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) not to try and strike everybody out all the time. Not only is it boring when that happens, the veteran catcher stresses to the young fireballer, it’s also fascist.
This is no political commentary, but having to pick Johnson is boring.
I’m not rooting for anybody because we’re not in the business of pulling for any of the people we cover. And, after turning 40, my days of being a passionate fan of anything pro-sports related have sadly come and gone.
That all said, Kyle Busch is second in my rankings.
Here’s hoping he wins it all this year and makes me look stupid.
