Seeping Matter

Round three of the AMA Supercross season just ended almost a week ago.  So I’d better hurry and write my review before round four takes place tomorrow evening.

Here’s the rundown (no pun intended, Ryan Morais):

• Ryan Morais had a really brutal-looking crash in his heat race where he landed on the top of a whoop directly on his lower back at a high rate of speed.  I worried that he’d broken his back (it certainly doesn’t require nearly so vicious an accident for me to break mine), but it ends up he’s just really, really, really sore.  No major injuries, but he’s out indefinitely at this point.
• Jake Weimer won again.  Woot.  Go, sort-of-local boy.
• James Stewart announced at the beginning of the races, “I got a boo-boo on my little handie,” you know, in case he needed an excuse later for losing.
• Josh Hill was looking like he used to a couple of years ago, before he started hanging out with J-Law.  He showed Stewart how it was in their heat by tracking him down and beating him.
  • I know, right?  You’re thinking, “I thought the only thing Stewart’s teammate was supposed to do is take Chad Reed out, not win!”  Well, Larry Brooks explained that since Stewart did such a stellar job of taking Chad Reed out last week, now Hill is actually free to try to win.  Sweet!
  • By the way, isn’t it odd that Jason Lawrence would have the nickname “J-Law,” considering all the legal trouble he’s been having lately?
• The main event was an instant classic.  Stewart led early, followed very closely by Hill and Ryan Dungey.  After seven or eight laps, Hill finally made a move for the lead and was able to hold Stewart off for a while, but you could’ve easily thrown a blanket over all three of them at any point, the racing was so close and awesome.  Finally Dungey passed Stewart, and shortly thereafter he passed Hill for the lead, checked out, and took the win.
• After the race, when they interviewed Stewart, he wiped a tear from his eye as he said, “My wrist.  It has an owie.  I couldn’t win because of my owie.  Remember, I told you about this earlier.”  Of course, we remembered.  It was all Ralph Sheheen could talk about the entire race.

As a side note, this Stewart crap is really getting old.  Every time he loses he has an excuse.  It is never his fault.  He always wins unless the entire universe conspires against him.  Right?

Dude, shut up.  Two years ago Chad Reed raced with a broken shoulder blade and still did better than you did with your tender wrist.  Shut up and race already.