And I thought the NASCAR Season was Over
Now that the Chase has been concluded and the bench racing started I thought this subject was dead and buried. Silly me.
Due to the points deducted from Dale Jr. a protest is being lodged in his behalf. And please, no snickers allowed when reading the name of the media company involved.
“We’re taking the protest to Daytona,” says Kimberly Dougherty, Director of Public Relations for CRAP Media, Inc. NASCAR may think the right way of getting a team or driver’s attention to stop breaking the rules is to hit them where it hurts the most: points, believing such a deterrent will keep the integrity of competition equal. To the contrary, NASCAR is the only sport that changes the outcome of an event for what amounts to a personal foul off the field of competition. This kind of penalty takes away from the integrity of fair competition.
I beg to differ there Kimberly. Compare the Indiana Pacers winning percentage before last Friday and about April sometime. The penalty that was handed out for, as you call it, “a personal foul off the field of competition” to the moron Artest will indeed have an effect on the outcome of events.
Changing the outcome of an event takes away from NASCAR’s credibility as a real sport when put up against events like football, baseball and basketball. NASCAR continues to say they are making efforts to grow and be considered a mainstream sport, but they cannot effectively do this if they change the competitive outcome of a race after the fact, especially for minor infractions. “The practice of deducting points for minimal infractions like swearing has nothing to do with competition or the sport,” says Dougherty. “As a matter of fact, the recent incident with Dale Earnhardt Jr. had nothing to do with racing at all,” she adds.
At least your correct on that point, but it does have everything to do with public relations, public image, and being a professional. And I should add, the suspensions that occur in all the “stick and ball” sports relating to over paid, over sexed crackheads for off the field drug offenses also effect a teams on the field performance.
Like the outfit you represent, CRAP Media, your arguement is also crap and your destined to be shown the door real quick at NASCAR headquarters.
I guess I should add CRAP Media has a protest website, “It don’t mean shit.com,” and you can vote in their poll here.
