NASCAR: Stupid Reporter Tricks
Sub-titled: “And this is relevant…, how?”
Sometimes questions a reporter asks are a window into their grasp of the subject matter, other times they show a complete lack of said grasp.
Still others display what I call the Sideline Reporters Curse. We’ve all seen it:
Reporter: “Coach, coach, you’re down by 63 points, the 3rd string QB starts the third quarter, your DL coach was just seen leaving the stadium parking lot with your wife and your Benz has just been towed by the police. WHAT are you going to differently in the second half?”
Coach: “Ummm, errr… I’m gonna shoot you in the frickin’ head!!!”
As crazy as that sounds, it can be worse as shown in this exchange between Tony Stewart and an unnamed Orlando Sentinel columnist during Thursday’s media day.
Stewart was asked to comment on this weeks media plat du jour, where a spacey spacewoman allegedly drove from Houston to Orlando while wearing a diaper.
“What’s that got to do with racing? Is she joining NASCAR?” Stewart said.
Unfazed by his/her own disjointed discourse they pressed on: “Well, I wondered if it might be an innovation or something” to potentially be used in NASCAR.
Stewart deadpanned, “You do the research, come back and tell us about it.”
After fielding a couple questions from other more sane reporters Smoke noticed his previous questioner standing off to the side and within earshot.
“Hey,” Stewart said, “you’re the leading candidate right now for dumbest question of the day. It’d be all yours. I mean, don’t take it the wrong way, it’s something to be proud of, dude. You guys are smoking too much stuff and becoming astronauts.”
There are a lot of reasons to envy those within NASCAR’s intense carbon arc klieg lights. Fame, fortune, open doors locked to many of us and for gearheads, the simple pleasure of smelling hot rubber and combusted high octane fuel all make the list.
Having to tolerate vacuous air-headed boobs masquerading as “columnists” doesn’t move the envy meter off the zero mark.
Meanwhile in more “important matters”, Barbie is ready for race day.
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Down with columnists, up with blogaters!
They had to make a Junior Barbie.
Had it been Skipper Junior would have asked her to be his girlfriend.
Had it been Skipper Junior would have asked her to be his girlfriend.
And if it had been Ken… oops, better not go there!