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INDIANAPOLIS -- IndyCar fined Scott Dixon $30,000 on Friday and placed him on probation through the end of the year for disparaging comments after the Grand Prix of Baltimore. Last week in Baltimore, Dixon called for race director Beaux Barfield to be fired following a second consecutive frustrating race that affected his championship chances. Earlier this week, the New Zealand driver said he expected to be fined. "Reflecting on it, I shouldnt have been so outspoken and I probably will be fined for it and I respect that," Dixon told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "It was just frustration of a two-week period. For me, I love the sport, I want to see it better and what I did didnt help. My concern is not making things look bad for the series. I love my job and dont want to be doing anything else, and I dont want it to be perceived otherwise. I want to learn from the mistakes weve made." Dixon was penalized in Sonoma the previous week when his car made contact with a crew member for Will Power, series leader Helio Castroneves teammate, on the final pit stop. Barfield said Dixon had driven into the Penske Racing work space, but Dixon alleged the crew member walked into his car. The penalty cost Dixon a chance to race for the win, and opinion was split through the paddock as to who was at fault and if race control perhaps should have not penalized anyone. At Baltimore, Dixon was angered when officials ignored a Chip Ganassi Racing request to tow his car back to pit lane so his team could attempt to repair it following an accident with Will Power with 22 laps remaining. Dixon finished 19th and lost more ground to Castroneves in the championship race. Dixon is 49 points behind Castroneves with three races remaining. 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Tom Waddle Womens Jersey . Its great to be back for another season in Banditland, and Im looking forward to another competitive season with my teammates, said Tavares.To listen to the level of discontentment surrounding the Toronto Maple Leafs this week, you would have thought the Leafs had fired Randy Carlyle after failing to win a game the entire first half of the season. In fact, the Leafs record on the day they fired Randy Carlyle was 21 wins, 16 losses and three losses in overtime ... good enough to be in position do something Toronto has failed to do in each of the past eight 82-game seasons – make the playoffs. So why was the firing of Carlyle pretty much universally approved by everyone in this city? Where are his defenders, those willing to take issue with a team that fired a coach who had his team in position to do something it hadnt done in a decade? A team that was cosidered the hottest team in hockey just before Christmas? The answer is that the Toronto Maple Leafs have become the only sports franchise in existence where wins and losses are not the most important thing. No, these days in the centre of the hockey universe, its become all about how you play the game. Think about it ... if at the start of the season you had said the Leafs would be 21-16-3 on Jan. 7, in playoff position and ahead of the Boston Bruins, would anyone have said – fire Randy Carlyle? Of course not. But the recent history here – three straight epic collapses by teams whose analytics have trended in the wrong direction -- has everyone paying more atttention to the shot clock than the scoreboard.dddddddddddd Consider the assertion by the Toronto Suns Steve Simmons in a column this week that the conversation to fire Carlyle heated up among Leaf upper management DURING THEIR WIN STREAK in December, because of the poor habits the team was displaying, which is another way of saying they were getting beat at the puck posession game. Consider also the manner in which Dave Nonis praised the Leafs 3-1 loss to Minnesota last Friday night because of the way his team played, seeming to ignore the fact they had lost the game by two goals. The Leafs have become the equivalent of the grade-school pupil in math class who is told that getting right answer is secondary to showing your work. Because right now in Toronto the results dont matter as much as the process, a belief reflected by the post-game comments of their new coach – Peter Horachek – after a 6-2 loss. Our possession numbers were better, we outshot em. Would Randy Carlyle be fired by this point in an era without analytics? Its an interesting question. It wasnt all that long ago the Leafs were accused of being a team that was blind to the numbers inside the numbers, that Toronto was seen as the home of the analytics abyss. As this weeks decision to fire a coach with a winning record proved, at least that much is not the same old, same old in Leaf Land. ' ' '