jjNormally I pay no attention to NASCAR or Ron Green Jr., but events have conspired to throw them together in a noteworthy way. Say, like Skipper Beck and hookers.

Anyway, Green and others are moaning about the Daytona 500 coming up 50 laps short due to rain. Hey, the France family and NASCAR got sacks of cash from FOX in order to bump the races into later into the day and into the night. If they do not care about what that does to the potential for rain-shortened races, why should fans and sportswriters?

Ditto scheduling the next race in frickin’ California — another NASCAR money-hungry move which puts the series in an impossibly tight time-table. Remember, it is not 45 or 11 or 2 guys that need to get three time-zones away, it is a couple semis, a motorhome and a couple tons of gear. Hanging around in Florida an extra day is just not an option.

What makes Green King of All Dorks on this topic is that he actually compares a NASCAR race to — golf and tennis! I swear I am not making this up. Green evinces no understanding of the logistical differences between moving a golf ball and a 3600-lb. race car. Instead we get the snarky, “It can’t be the Daytona 380.”

Wrong, Dork King. It must be the Daytona 380.