Lady in Black NASCAR Cesspool
Candidates for this weeks Cesspool is rather sparse to say the least. Surprising given the venue was The Lady in Black a place that is never kind to anyone and normally sets tempers on edge. But seek and you shall find.
And the first two nominees both belong under the banner of stupidity and hype by FoxSports. Picture that crawl that runs across your TV screen during green flag racing. Allegedly it gives the lap by lap running order of the entire field each lap - “Running Order: 1 Kasey Kahne, 2. Matt Kenseth, etc…” - for example. Saturday night that feature was turned into someones personal cheering section. For the first third of the event the graphic appeared this way: “Go Dale Go,” 1, Kasey Kahne, 2, Matt Kenseth, etc…” Someone needs to be horse whipped for that little stunt, this dip in the Pool isn’t enough. You guys report, nothing more. You want to cheerlead, go get yer-self a pleated skirt a couple pom-poms and have at it. In the frontstretch grandstands.
Not to be outdone by an idiot in the FoxSports Graphics Dept., the entire Fox Crew gets to taste a bit of the Cesspool’s malodorous contents also. Everyone, from the TV ads pimping the show, to broadcast booth bobbleheads, the guys in the production truck” and again the aforementioned Graphics Dept.
The phrase “Darlington Stripe” was heard (and hyped!) more times than “Bush is Hitler” at a world peace rally!
The final example and tally was shown at the end of the race: “Darlington Stripes: 25.” It should have read, “Darlington Stripes 00,” there hasn’t been a true Darlington Stripe in two decades. True Stripes were intentional, not the result of a driver getting too high, into the dust, dirt, and dinggle-berries and coming away with what can only be called a pseudo-Stripe.
But wait, there’s more from TV Land. This time Fox News on Sunday morning. (can you tell not much happened on track?) Speed Channel’s Dave DeSpain appeared on the Morning Show discussing the increase in NASCAR accidents this year. All the usual suspects were discussed but that’s not the point. While they talked a loop of film clips were shown. The first was the “Blue Deuce” getting upside down. The second featured Dale Jr. but not in a NASCAR ride! They ran a clip of Jr. as he was momentarily trapped in his burning ALMS sports car at Sonoma in 2004. Ahemm… excuse me! This segment was about NASCAR, NASCAR “road Rage” and drivers getting “even” on track and a perceptable increase of NASCAR accidents!
IDOITS! Oh, and is it any surprise they never mentioned the historic venue or the results from Saturday night? NOT!
A quick Cesspool shoutout to Roush Racing. How the hell do you have two, count’em, two oil pump belts go south? (#26 and #99) On two different cars. In the same event. I don’t know either, but there you go, it happened and made this weeks offensive, putrid Cesspool of Infamy!
That’s it this week. With next weeks All-Star event at Humpy’s place that features one off race cars for a non-points paying race I expect considerably more on track antics for the Cesspool.
NASCAR, NEXTEL Cup, Darlington Raceway, Auto Racing, Motorsports, Full Throttle
Do you mean I wasn’t the only one noticing these things during the race. I was getting pretty sick and tired of hearing about the Darlington Stripe and you are right, noone really earns one nowadays but I guess that gives the guys up in the booth something to talk about during the dead time, which there was quite a bit of in last nights race.
Oh, another thing I noticed, since you spoke about the oil pump belts, what is up with the Yates boys (Dale & Elliott)? I mean RYR and Roush both use the same engines but do you see the Yates cars up front? No! I think Roush and Yates should share cars along with the engines, maybe that would help the Yates organization. Probably one of the reasons DJ went to Toyota and Yates is fearing they will lose Elliott to Toyota.
Oh, why didn’t they have the wire cam at the race? I would think it would be at every race, it is a nice addition and it isn’t like NASCAR can not afford it.
I will be happy to see ESPN/ABC as announcers in 2007. I know they are taking the place of NBC but maybe they should reconsider, it gets tiresome to hear the constant mistakes made in the booth about what the heck is going on on the track.
Well sorry to write so much.
Have a great night.
Tom
just an FYI, the “go dale go” is a by product of UPS sponsoring the ticker or whatever you would call that thing, this isn’t the first time it has appeared, i’m sure it’s been there all year. i watch that thing more than most people i’m sure, i can’t say for sure it’s been there all year, but it has been there for awhile. and i guess the only real problem i have with that is, fox sells more and more advertising for any part of their broadcast they can sell, yet we still have a billion commercials.
Thanks Kevin, maybe that is the reason for that display. I do remember in the past seeing sponsors logos on the crawl. But failed to note any Saturday night, just the “Go Dale Go.” Could be the mistake was leaving off the logo.
Because of that my mind centered on a Dale Jr. fan in the graphics dept. Either way it’s wrong. Besides, someone has to cough up the cool $20 mil DJ will be getting from Waltrip and Toyota.
That cash isn’t picked from a G-note bush. It will get filtered down to the public one way or another.
Tom, don’t be sorry for writing so much, that’s what the comment section is for.
Yates? No sure what the problem is over there but top tens have been very sparse for a few years. I doubt if a change in drivers will help.
As far as the cable/wire cam goes I could care less, unless it is vastly improved. In fact the first week it was in operation I put it in the Cesspool because it was so poorly done. And BTW, the Network pays for it not NASCAR. And they need to see the cable cam work done in Formula One. Their setup is phenominal.