The Real Story of Michael Waltrip
Kids, let me tell you a story. Its the story of a man, an old man, named Jimmy. Now, Old Jimmy, as he was known, used to be a racer. A pretty good one too--he won a few races, and made a little bit of money. While lots of Old Jimmy's friends retired or took other jobs, Old Jimmy stuck at it, racing anywhere they'd have him.
One day Old Jimmy got a crazy idea--he'd race in the biggest race of them all, the Daytona 500! But Old Jimmy was pretty old by now. Who would pay for Old Jimmy to follow his dream? Why, his best friend of course. So Old Jimmy and his friend went down to Daytona to show those young boys a thing or two about racing.
Old Jimmy knew things were going to be rough, but he didn't know just how rough it would be. Old Jimmy's car was pretty slow at the beginning, and he was starting to wonder if he should be trying to race at all. Then the race came--the race that, if he finished high enough, he'd make it to the Daytona 500.
Old Jimmy was so excited! He was doing well! So well, in fact, that he was almost in the race! And with eight laps to go, he WAS in the race, he just needed to hold on!
And what happened next? Well, Old Jimmy got passed by a cheating corporate shill who passed the blame for breaking the rules onto a sacrificial lamb, who he then fired immediately. Old Jimmy wasn't going to run in the Daytona 500. But Old Jimmy wasn't sad. No--he was happy. Because no matter what happens, he could say that he tried his best, and did it the right way.
posted by Mike Mackler @ 15.2.07
3 Comments:
I guess that you have never worked in an organization that some one at the lower end did something wrong and the top layer did not know it. As Jesus said, let he who is without sin throw the first stone... guess you have never done anything wrong.
i belive he isnt blaming that lamb, just blaming waltrip or another big cheese on his team, thining its intentially
Good story.
It was clearly Waltrip's doing -- he's the driver AND the owner, and none of the people on his team would have anything to benefit. Waltrip wouldn't fire them if he made it to the 500.
A lot of the NASCAR fanbase didn't like Waltrip for cheating (myself included), and an additional 75% don't like him for taking out Dale Jr. And his commercials are way too annoying. Sucks for Reutimann.
Steve
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