On this anniversary The Freaks look back several years to a newcomer in Cup racing who had nothing but a golden future. We thought he'd be the best of his generation. Instead, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was thrown several curves within weeks of this conversation in November of 2000. One of those curves was hit for a home run recently. Dale Jr. broke a four year losing streak and won a Cup race. It was a headline that jumped into the mainstream of sports news. The Freaks look back to a conversation nwith a friend nearly 12 years ago when all of us were very wet behind the ears. Listen…