Is Erin Crocker looking forward to Wednesday at Bristol? Credit: Autostock

We wonder ...

A busy news weekend at Michigan left everyone's head spinning

... how's Erin Crocker's week going to play out at Bristol?

The Craftsman Truck Series returns to Bristol this week and it should be very interesting to see how the media handles Erin Crocker in light of the allegations made in the Mayfield/Evernham court documents that were released earlier last week. Perhaps even more interesting may be how Crocker handles the media.

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Is the outing of the "personal relationship" between Evernham and Crocker going to doom her entire racing career, raising doubts about her validity as a NASCAR driver in a high-profile team? Or will the "relationship" actually make Crocker more famous in the eyes of a gossip-hungry public?

One thing's for sure. Crocker will be a popular topic for the media come Wednesday at the Tennessee bullring.

... wait a second, did Dale Earnhardt Jr. actually get booed?

Watching the end of the Busch Series race Saturday was a little like watching an episode of The Twilight Zone. Dale Earnhardt Jr., who can usually get a free pass from fans for just about anything, gets booed in Victory Lane like he just pulled a Hollywood Hogan. What's more, Carl "Golly Gee" Edwards gets in Junior's face in Victory Lane, even going so far as to -- gasp -- grab Junior's race suit.

Did Junior punt Edwards? Maybe, maybe not. For the comedic value of this scene, it's hardly relevant.

Is it me or is just incredibly fascinating to watch Edwards struggle with his own identity? One minute he sounds like he just changed into his sweater and sneakers while singing "Won't You Be My Neighbor" and the next minute he appears to be seconds away from re-enacting the scene in A Christmas Story where Ralphie unloads on Scut Farkus while spewing every expletive in the book.

It certainly makes for fascinating television.

... will the nickname "Controversy Kurt" stick for more than five seconds?

In his pre-race interview Sunday, Kurt Busch, while discussing the whole pit road thing from Watkins Glen, called himself "Controversy Kurt." Afterward, you could almost hear crickets as Busch was waiting for somebody to laugh.

Poor guy. He's really trying hard, isn't he?

The joke does have potential. After all, controversy does have a way of following our boy Kurt around. The fatal error here, however, is that "Controversy Kurt" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. Plus, when you actually write the nickname, you force people to say it out loud in order to get the joke because the two words start with different letters.

What about "Bickering Busch" or "The Squabbling Snow Angel"?

... did you watch the Dodge ad with Jeremy Mayfield and Kasey Kahne in a whole new light Sunday?

I can't believe they continued to run it. The more I watch it, though, the more I think our boy Jeremy may not have been acting.

... which Wally's World is better?

Mario Batali, the scheduled guest on Wally's World on Sunday, failed to appear. So Wally was left to spend the segment riding around Michigan telling us what to expect. At least for a week, it was a welcome change.

I actually brought this question up to Wally when I spoke with him last year at Texas and he said one of the reasons they do the celeb thing instead of a straight informative segment is that there are only so many times you can talk about banking and handling before it starts to get tiresome. That point was proven by the whole "D.W. Ride Along" thing on FOX this year. Plus, some of those Wally's World celeb moments are priceless.

However, if only for one week, it was nice to hear Wally drop some knowledge.

... can someone please perfect satellite/cable TV technology?

It rained in Atlanta on Sunday. Of course, as a result, I missed about 50 laps of the race -- moments after some friends came over and I was bragging to them how great NASCAR looks in 52" of high-definition goodness.

I have friends that have cell phones smaller than my pinky. I can fit 5,000 songs in my back pocket and I can call and have General Tso's Chicken delivered to my door in 15 minutes. Can somebody please figure out how a guy can watch a race when three drops of rain are falling outside his window?