{"id":960,"date":"2007-06-26T21:29:47","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T01:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/26\/wow-tuesday-nascar-and-jonessmoltz-make-nice\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T21:29:47","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T01:29:47","slug":"wow-tuesday-nascar-and-jonessmoltz-make-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/26\/wow-tuesday-nascar-and-jonessmoltz-make-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"WoW Tuesday, NASCAR, and Jones\/Smoltz make nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a lot of time to dive into full discussions about the topics in the title.\u00a0 I would rather be gaming tonight instead of writing, so let\u2019s dive in.<\/p>\n<p>After seeing Chris\u2019 post about getting to L70, I spent time with WoW last night, I had a 20 minute session this morning, a 25 minute session at lunch, and I just finished up a 45 minute session.\u00a0 I am now about 20K from being a L38 mage.\u00a0 You have to invest a heck of a lot of time to move forward, but moving forward is fun.\u00a0 At this pace, I will not smell L70 anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR reminded teams today that the sanctioning body owns the numbers, which are leased to the individual teams.\u00a0 I am not sure if they are pitching a hissyfit because that is what NASCAR does best, or if they do not want the 8 car going with Junior (and thus to Hendrick\u2019s garage).<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR also punished Gordon and Johnson by docking them 100 points, and their crew chiefs were suspended for six races, which is a bigger impact than the points penalties.\u00a0 My feeling, in this particular case, is that this is way too excessive.\u00a0 They were already sent to the back for a road race, which was a big punishment.\u00a0 I could see something this extensive for using an illegal part or substance, but for bending a fender?\u00a0 I thought pushing the limits of the rules was one of the charms of the sport.\u00a0 I guess those days are over.<\/p>\n<p>I read Chipper Jones and John Smoltz made nice.\u00a0 Apparently it was all a big misunderstanding and Chipper apologized for misinterpreting Smoltz\u2019s comments.\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 Sounds like they have that one all wrapped up.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves finally won last night and are winning tonight.\u00a0 Amazing what a couple of three-run homeruns will do for you.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a lot of time to dive into full discussions about the topics in the title.\u00a0 I would rather be gaming tonight instead of writing, so let\u2019s dive in. After seeing Chris\u2019 post about getting to L70, I spent time with WoW last night, I had a 20 minute session this morning, a 25 minute &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/06\/26\/wow-tuesday-nascar-and-jonessmoltz-make-nice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WoW Tuesday, NASCAR, and Jones\/Smoltz make nice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}