tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post5123827270395299818..comments2024-03-05T06:32:37.180-05:00Comments on The Daly Planet: Race Wrap: Sprint Cup Series From Michigan On ESPNDaly Planet Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13834588435004023666noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-79185000352335861812012-08-21T10:56:41.188-04:002012-08-21T10:56:41.188-04:00Also, yes hats off to Jerry Punch, while sadly he ...Also, yes hats off to Jerry Punch, while sadly he did struggle as the play by play guy he has been a staple as a pit reporter. Over the years I have enjoyed the DR very much. It has been a pleasure to listen to him over the years.. he is a real class guy and a pleasure to listen to as a pit reporter over the years. I remember the old days at ESPN, Jerry was a huge part of that.. atd118https://www.blogger.com/profile/06862201516855975496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-70329316768163441932012-08-21T10:52:50.097-04:002012-08-21T10:52:50.097-04:00I agree, I think A.P. has been outstanding. I trul...I agree, I think A.P. has been outstanding. I truly enjoy listening to him atd118https://www.blogger.com/profile/06862201516855975496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-64717902269234055102012-08-21T02:15:17.677-04:002012-08-21T02:15:17.677-04:00Just checked the official results that NASCAR post...Just checked the official results that NASCAR posted.<br /><br />Seems they have Reutiman and Kyle Busch both driving the #18 Toyota.<br /><br />Local newspaper had it correct, but how can the sanctioning body get that wrong?<br /><br />Thanks Brian!<br /><br />JohnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-38764027904388718472012-08-20T22:29:59.783-04:002012-08-20T22:29:59.783-04:00I suspect that anon 3:57 doesn't get that spor...I suspect that anon 3:57 doesn't get that sports have 'expressions' for things...like in football 'he's got a hamstring.' Well, of course he has one, we all do. But it's jargon. Just means it's broken..like 'she blowed up'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-44800837424026739172012-08-20T22:17:49.728-04:002012-08-20T22:17:49.728-04:00The in-car communication between Jeff Gordon and A...The in-car communication between Jeff Gordon and Alan Gustafson clearly has them referring to dropping a valve spring. Not utter nonsense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-41659857502722473032012-08-20T21:12:40.141-04:002012-08-20T21:12:40.141-04:00I was driving between Kansas City and Dallas durin...I was driving between Kansas City and Dallas during the race. In the absence of a Sirius subscription we had to depend on finding a terrestrial station. Once the signal from KC faded we had nothing. Wow, the MRN/PRN affiliate sales team must really be hurting if they can't find stations to carry races in America's heartland. Enter my Sprint EVO phone. As luck would have it I had an auxiliary jack so I plugged one end into the phone, the other into the car's sound system and listened to MRN the rest of the race. They made it sound like one hell of a race and made a note of what laps they happened. So when I got home I brought up the DVR recording. Fast forwarded to Mark Martin's wreck, fast forwarded to the other things that sounded interesting. Some things I never found on the TV coverage and others weren't nearly as compelling as MRN made it sound.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-70893799083568825452012-08-20T17:52:30.281-04:002012-08-20T17:52:30.281-04:00GinaV24 makes an excellent point about Brad. He sa...GinaV24 makes an excellent point about Brad. He says some really outrageous things without thinking. On the Almendinger situation, Brad made a lot of noise about drivers "shouldn't be allowed to take anything". There are a ton of legitimate reasons for a Doctor to prescribe medications. Brad must be free of allergies, bronchitis,etc,.etc.,etc. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-7249708294236241632012-08-20T17:08:42.040-04:002012-08-20T17:08:42.040-04:00MRM, wow, no I didn't hear Brad say that, but ...MRM, wow, no I didn't hear Brad say that, but then again, I try to not listen when Brad's moving his lips. As with Rusty, mostly that's just hot air moving in and out.GinaV24https://www.blogger.com/profile/10828669350024430018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-26661283887012873092012-08-20T15:57:51.498-04:002012-08-20T15:57:51.498-04:00I didn't expect to watch an exciting race at M...I didn't expect to watch an exciting race at Michigan and I wasn't disappointed. It seemed like it was a one lane groove the entire race and if you got up and out of the groove, you were in deep trouble. It's unfortunate that there are accidents while on commercial break, but Joey Logano hit the wall twice and they were way late on showing it. Thank God, Mark Martin was OK. I suspect that Nascar will be looking at all the tracks for exposed walls. Recently, I've vented here about the Technical incompetance shown by the talking heads and media covering Nascar. I just read an article by a top Nascar journalist that said that..."Jimmie Johnson dropped a valve spring..." What utter nonsense. The camshaft opens/closes each valve. There is an inner and an outer valve spring controlling the movement of the valve together with a retainer and two small locks that keep everything together. When either the inner or outter spring breaks, the two small locks can become dislodged which allows the valve to drop down and get hit by the piston destroying the engine. Valve springs break. Valves drop, but valve springs DON'T drop. Maybe I'm expecting too much from those at the top of my favorite Sport. The pre race gang is useless with the exception of Evernham.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-90351652560239835712012-08-20T14:10:21.641-04:002012-08-20T14:10:21.641-04:00Great camera work by the guy brave enough to conti...Great camera work by the guy brave enough to continue to get the shot of Mark Martin's car sliding toward him. (I know that he was behind a concrete wall at the time but if it were me, I'd be scared.) Loved how Ray Evernham 'said it without saying it' to Rusty Wallace - that in fewer races, Jeff Gordon has 30 more wins that Wallace and three more championships than Wallace. Jeff Gordon doesn't lack focus; Rusty Wallace lacks on-air talent. Agree with the too-much in-car camera thing, too. It was fantastic when it debut with Benny Parsons in 1979 and still pretty neat (especially when paired with Cale Yarborough) for about 10 years starting in the mid-80s. Nowadays, ESPN overdoes it.Robertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-27401728522585228532012-08-20T12:00:01.448-04:002012-08-20T12:00:01.448-04:00Did anyone catch Brad Daughtery's comments whe...Did anyone catch Brad Daughtery's comments when talking about Johnson coming from the back when he said he's passed every car except those in front of him? Now that's some great insight.MRM4https://www.blogger.com/profile/04045747192945960087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-22589238477686612772012-08-20T10:26:33.810-04:002012-08-20T10:26:33.810-04:00I was really annoyed with the "countdown"...I was really annoyed with the "countdown" mostly because I felt like Rusty and Brad both have been unfairly critical of Gordon over the past couple of weeks. I'm not sure how Rusty can say Jeff isn't "focused". I've never seen his team have so many mechanical or just plain stupid things happen to them in one year. Did he have a car good enough to win on Sunday? I don't know for sure, but until the valve spring broke, it looked as if he had a chance to get a top 10 and considering the issues that other teams using HMS engines had, it wasn't just him.<br /><br />It seemed to me that every time I looked at the TV, ESPN was in commercial. I was using trackpass and twitter to actually follow the race with ESPN as background.<br /><br />Since I was annoyed that Gordon was going to have another poor finish, I stopped paying a lot of attention to the TV after that. I did come back toward the end and AB did a great job of calling the race.<br /><br />Do I wish that all the TV partners would stop with all of the gimmicky camera stuff? Yes, absolutely. In car, bumper cam, toe cam, butt cam, whatever does absolutely nothing to show me what is going on in the race. Pull the cameras back and follow the action. AB can call the race and I could enjoy it then.<br /><br />As I sent in one of my tweets, it is a sad statement that what I feel most often about NASCAR on TV these days is a combination of boredom and annoyance. Most "shows" that produce that reaction for me go off my tv viewing list. <br /><br />I also thought it was interesting as I was continuing to follow twitter into last evening that several writers were commenting on "angry unhappy people" on twitter.<br /><br />I tweeted back to them - it was Matt Taliarfero and Jeff Gluck I think - that it may be because there are a LOT of angry unhappy NASCAR fans out there. DW retreated from twitter last night (I don't follow him so I don't know what happened) since he was apparently getting hammered about something.<br /><br />Twitter allows the fans to have a fast interactive method of talking to one another and although I truly doubt that anyone from NASCAR listens, it's out in public these days. I doubt very much that NASCAR and TPTB actually enjoy that much.GinaV24https://www.blogger.com/profile/10828669350024430018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-21641737374115754842012-08-20T10:02:42.196-04:002012-08-20T10:02:42.196-04:00Every time there are two cars are racing for posit...Every time there are two cars are racing for position ESPN switches to an in-car or, even worse, bumper camera. They do realize that the driver needs a spotter to know where the other car is because he CAN'T SEE ANYTHING FROM INSIDE THE CAR, right? So why do they switch to a camera that is where the driver is, WHO CAN'T SEE? What part of that is difficult to figure out?<br /><br />What's even worse is when they have one of those idiotic shots where we are looking at the hood of a car from one foot away, can see nothing but that hood ornamentation bobbing up and down, and the announcer says, <i>"That is an awesome shot."</i> ?!?<br /><br />Jayhawkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00756807802218022043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-25375652204426330712012-08-20T09:22:25.069-04:002012-08-20T09:22:25.069-04:00Jonathan,
It's not mutually exclusive and tha...Jonathan,<br /><br />It's not mutually exclusive and that is the point.<br /><br />There is absolutely no problem in showing the leaders racing to the line and then showing the remainder of the lead lap cars racing to the finish.<br /><br />The trucks have done this for the past six years without incident for every race.<br /><br />JDDaly Planet Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13834588435004023666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-81417516457011362072012-08-20T07:24:33.216-04:002012-08-20T07:24:33.216-04:00Small but significant thing that ESPN missed today...Small but significant thing that ESPN missed today, and something that, in its old regime of coverage probably would have been noted<br />Late in the race, the 48 in-car showed JJ reaching up and turning on the engine cooling fan switches! Engine running too hot on a super speedway? Precursor to the engine failure?<br /><br />ESPN could have looked VERY smart, but once again, failed to attain the platinum level of coverage they delivered back in the Bob Jenkins/Benny Parsons daysAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-83518511792971925902012-08-20T02:57:17.030-04:002012-08-20T02:57:17.030-04:00ESPN showed us the top 20 cars crossing the line a...ESPN showed us the top 20 cars crossing the line at the finish which was a welcome change. I also liked how they followed Biffle to victory lane, to capture the "out of the car" moment naturally rather than holding the winner in the car until they are ready for him. I've been very pleased with ESPN this year. With AB on PxP especially, they are the class of the field this year. Of course they aren't perfect, but I've enjoyed their coverage thoroughly.Nicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-1746368055401249692012-08-20T02:53:27.292-04:002012-08-20T02:53:27.292-04:00What stood out to me was the final pit stop after ...What stood out to me was the final pit stop after Trevor Bayne blew a tire. The top 3 cars came to pit road, odd balls if you will. Menard, Landon Cassil and Travis Kvapil. ESPN didn't mention them once during their stops. They rather followed Sam Hornish Jr. Not that it wasn't good to do that, it was. Just felt like they showed some disrespect to those cars at that moment.<br /><br />All-in-all it wasn't a terrible day. Brad and Rusty botched their pre-race, Evernham again shined as usual. Missed alot during commercials, but appreciated the many angles of Mark's wreck. Man, we were lucky that wasn't a worse situation. Easily could have been tragic if he hit 2 feet further up or down the car.<br /><br />Pretty much a B- day for me.<br /><br />Side note my local provider lost ESPN and ESPN2 for about an hour from the end of the pre-race to about 25 laps into the race.The Loose Wheelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06048709313597675807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-46989007425795548012012-08-20T01:39:12.910-04:002012-08-20T01:39:12.910-04:00I actually thought this race was well-presented. I...I actually thought this race was well-presented. It could be because I was relying on RaceBuddy, Twitter, and the race page at Racing-Reference to stay up to speed. Nonetheless, nothing about the presentation bothered me. <br /><br />I was a little disturbed by how many times they replayed Mark Martin's crash and was annoyed by the no mentioning of Travis Kvapil and David Gilliland all race long despite their great lead lap finishes. Other than that, no complaints, but like I said, I wasn't paying attention the entire time.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05695935832373324376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-24821987411230166702012-08-20T01:19:21.477-04:002012-08-20T01:19:21.477-04:00Fantastic coverage today. I was set for a boring f...Fantastic coverage today. I was set for a boring fuel mileage race but today Michigan spiced things up on us and gave us another gem. I stupidly went to speed to check on the MOTOgp race came back and saw my man Mark Martin Hung up on pit wall. His interview was great tho. You could tell he was just honored to be driving what was easily the fastest car. Pit strategy was interesting And Andy kept us all in the know. Exciting finish tho. Sucks to see jj blow up. But glad to see a Ford win at Michigan for roush again. Solid B effort today from ESPN. Very refreshingAveryNHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-87119404189210890002012-08-20T00:51:31.263-04:002012-08-20T00:51:31.263-04:00So I switched channels and the race had already st...So I switched channels and the race had already started.Got hungry so went to the kitchen to make 2 sandwiches.Washed hands,prepared bread,put meat and cheese in micro,washed utinsels,poured milk,put sandwiches together and sat down in front of t.v.Started during a brake,took about 5-6 minutes total.<br />So I counted 3 commercial brakes during that time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-55487274986546939952012-08-19T23:17:26.962-04:002012-08-19T23:17:26.962-04:00Coverage was a lot better than usual. Saw more of ...Coverage was a lot better than usual. Saw more of the field, wider shots, less in-cams. Everyone has their own preference, but you got a better idea of the race. <br /><br />Racebuddy has been a useless joke for both Cup and NW races.<br /><br />I'd say the Cup coverage left me with a far better idea of midpack racing than what I've seen on NW.<br /><br />Maybe they're trying to make some changes, finally. I can only hope.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-85699231185397404132012-08-19T22:37:55.636-04:002012-08-19T22:37:55.636-04:00Czarniak on NASCAR Now "JJ was unhappy with h...Czarniak on NASCAR Now "JJ was unhappy with his car in practice so decided to change the engine"<br /><br />Briscoe "JJ has not won at a road race"<br /><br />R Wallace "JR gets a mulligan for the spin out at Watkins Glen because he spun out in the oil"<br /><br />So much misinformation. Do they have cue cards or come up with this stuff themselves. This is just a small sample of what I can remember now. <br /><br />And the "casual fan" believes what they say.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-60091457021725967432012-08-19T22:36:48.777-04:002012-08-19T22:36:48.777-04:00JD I hear you we should see every car on the lead ...JD I hear you we should see every car on the lead lap cross the finish line. But when it comes down to the last lap the leaders should always be shown. Unless the leader is way ahead and there is a great battel for say 2nd - 5th<br />then thats a different story and I have seen ESPN do that before. <br /><br />I wanna comment on your comment of"the true NASCAR story is often not the winner of the race, but what is happening in the field behind the leader" This is so true but that goes out the window on the last lap, im sorry those guys up front are going at it for the win on the last lap. We have all race and the post race to go over whats going on throughout the field.... Many people complain about points racing and how there not racing for the win and how every race should be about winning... Well on the last lap TV should be showing us the leaders and the focus on winning cause thats what racing is all about... As Dale Sr. would say 2nd is the first loser so why would we be showing the losers on the last lap if winning is what this sport is all about!? I feel you yes show every car on the lead lap cross the start finish line but dont show me whats going on in 25th place on the last lap. we have all the laps before the last one for that.... just my take... <br /><br />Dale Jr is my favorite as you know but if hes in 30th place on the last lap why would I wanna see that??? Now if hes in 6th and there 3 wide and the leader is ahead go for it show it.. but if hes 3 wide going for 30th why do I wanna see that on the last lap????? Now once the leaders cross the line go ahead so me how hard there going at it thats all good Jonathannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-83604045451305253912012-08-19T22:29:49.125-04:002012-08-19T22:29:49.125-04:00I thought the coverage was pretty good again. It&#...I thought the coverage was pretty good again. It's great to hear Allen B call the race and not get over powered by his partners in the booth. I agree with most of you that the in car camera needs to go or at least just used on replays. I really don't see why they need Rusty and Brad in the pit studio...to me they just don't add anything to the race. Actually, all of them could go if you ask me. The ESPN coverage has been the best so far to me. Get rid of in cars and stick with some wider shots and I would be really happy. Jeffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-33024242791513839622012-08-19T21:38:32.772-04:002012-08-19T21:38:32.772-04:00hmm, was there racebuddy for grand-am yesterday? ...hmm, was there racebuddy for grand-am yesterday? I had today's cup race on racebuddy earlier, never closed tab. For some recent decided to see if replay was still active, so scrolled back near midway point, and I had 10 minutes of Grand Am Montreal racing, 3 on boards and a track view. I am not joking about this, an attempt to go full screen on board took me out of it and back to MIS racebuddy, clearly a glitch, but did I stumble across something suggesting future plans, or is it already known grand am uses racebuddy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com