Jay Busbee from Yahoo joins the show to talk about Frank’s Red Hot! Yes, I got a case of it in the mail, so its only right to plug he hell out of it.

Oh yes, we talk about NASCAR and golf as well.

Busbee writes both From the Marbles and Devil Ball Golf, two of the sports blogs in the Yahoo blogs family. We talk about the difference in both content and audience for the two blogs -- it doesn’t seem that NASCAR and the PGA would have much crossover -- and how he manages to cater to both fan bases.

We discuss the niche nature of both sports, and talk about the relative infancy of national blogs that cover them. Blogs have been around for a while now, but not many have covered the NASCAR or PGA circuit like Yahoo is doing from a national level. We discuss the challenges that has created, especially when working with some of the old guard media who have patrolled the galleries and pit rows of these events for years.

We talk a lot about the economics of the sports. Team sports are in near-crisis mode with layoffs and hiring freezes and commissioners taking pay cuts. If the team sports are having a hard time staying afloat in this economic climate, what is happening to the individual athletes? What about the individual team owners?

How far will the economy effect these individual sports? Will we see fewer races and tournaments because sponsors pull out? Will we see fewer people in each field because without sponsorship money, it’s far too costly to go travel to some of these events? Will the minor leagues survive?

Onto this past weekend...The Daytona 500 just ended because of rain. That’s it, it’s over and this guy is the winner. This is the Super Bowl of NASCAR. Could you imagine that happening in the actual Super Bowl? Something isn’t right with that, but how can it be fixed?

We also talk about some of the personalities behind the cars. How great is Tony Stewart? How cheap does Home Depot look with their commercial teaching their new 18 YEAR OLD driver how to “Race on a budget.” It turns out, it’s as easy as 1-2-3.

Oh, and does everyone love or hate Dale Jr. And will he ever be as good as he’s supposed to be?

Some fun to end it: Why did Fox create Digger? Are fans really as dumb as Fox thinks we are? Honestly, I can see -- and we discuss -- the merits of having a show about racing for kids on each week before the race. If you want to sustain a sport you need to grow it’s audience and other major sports should take NASCAR’s lead and reach out more to the younger generation. But why do we need these silly graphics DURING our sporting events? Does it make the viewing more enjoyable to see some animated gopher pop up in the screen and distract us? Is he worse than Cletus the Dancing Robot, who should be decommissioned post haste. Busbee wonders who would win in a fight -- Digger or Cletus -- and wishes for a double death match.

Last, Tom Cruise was at Daytona. So was Nicole Kidman with her husband Keith Urban. Someone asked Urban what his favorite racing move is (he said Cars, not Days of Thunder which would have been awesome and caused quite a stir), so I pose the question to Busbee. With golf, it’s Caddyshack (but Happy Gilmore is close). What about racin’? What’s the best racing movie of all time?

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