The internet is an inconsistent platform that often makes no sense from one day to the next.
NASCAR’s tiny little corner of the Information Superhighway is no different.
You can blame the All-Mighty Algorithm or our own need for a new shiny object to obsess over for 15 minutes each day.
Or you can blame me and Kyle Petty.
At least this week.
On Monday (March 6), just under 24 hours after the conclusion of a very lackluster NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, I decided to use 45 minutes during a day off from work to go for a walk through my neighborhood in Little Rock, Arkansas.
During this walk, I decided to listen to the latest episode of the NASCAR on NBC podcast, hosted by my former colleague, Nate Ryan.
Petty was this week’s guest.
In the middle of the episode, Petty made an observation about Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney, comparing his career so far to Kasey Kahne‘s.
In the moment, I didn’t even register what led to Petty’s comment, only that I knew I hadn’t heard it before and it made me go “hmmmm.”
So I stopped in the middle of my walk, opened Twitter and fired this off.
Booooy, did NASCAR Twitter have thoughts.
Enough to warrant 288 replies and 187 quote tweets as of this writing. And for a brief time Tuesday, it was the top item on NASCAR Reddit.
One thing is clear.
You guys have really strong feelings about either Blaney, Kahne or Petty.
Or, like me, you really didn’t want to spend a week talking about the Las Vegas race or Chase Elliott‘s inevitable playoff waiver.
Either way, Petty saved us from a very tedious week.
Here are his full comments.
The way Petty delivered his take made it seem as if he’d been ruminating on it for a while and was finally given a window to release it into the wild.
The way many responded made it feel like they’d been waiting for someone else to finally say what they’d been thinking.
Now, the purpose of this column isn’t to get into the weeds of the argument itself.
I don’t want to recite multiple ‘graphs of stats.
I care more about the delightfully bizarre fact that the debate is even happening in the first…
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