tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post5776894733516554368..comments2024-03-05T06:32:37.180-05:00Comments on The Daly Planet: In-Progress At Texas: ESPN's Big NASCAR FridayDaly Planet Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13834588435004023666noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-6439527375216141362007-11-03T22:38:00.000-04:002007-11-03T22:38:00.000-04:00I happened to turn on right at the end of Cup qual...I happened to turn on right at the end of Cup qualifying Friday night -- they were going to a couple of interviews and before they did said that the full race lineup would scroll across the bottom of the screen.<BR/>It started to scroll, then it disappeared for several seconds then it reappeared. Then, when they cut to an interview with Mark Martin, it switched to be at the top of the screen<BR/>I had to go to NASCAR.com to see who was where.<BR/>Bizarre behaviour. It was like watching graphics for a local telethon.Old and Slowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16364803314297627932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-17199189085649436232007-11-03T16:45:00.000-04:002007-11-03T16:45:00.000-04:00ESPN's qualifying coverage was ridiculously bad. ...ESPN's qualifying coverage was ridiculously bad. Everyone has already noted the glitch, and the fact that they never went back and replayed those four cars, or even gave us an update on what happened!<BR/><BR/>It wasn't just the glitch, though. ESPN still doesn't grasp the importance of the GOGH cars. They have a decent graphic that shows who's locked in, who's on the bubble, and who's locked out, but they don't show that graphic consistently! Sometimes they'll use the graphic or just verbally tell us the implications of a particular GOGH'ers run, but more often than not, they'll just leave us in the dark! To top it all off, they never even bothered to give us a GOGH recap at the end of qualifying, and they had 20+ minutes of extra time to do so!<BR/><BR/>In addition to all these problems, Punch seemed to be completely out to lunch all night. Saying things like "Mayfield will try to get this 66 car in the field". Ummm, Jerry - the 66 car is locked in, it's in the Top-35! This is just one example of the good Doctor's mis-statements and confusion. I think he's just mailing it in at this point. Very sad...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-51683055234005921792007-11-02T21:29:00.000-04:002007-11-02T21:29:00.000-04:00I would not take the boos for Juan Pablo to seriou...I would not take the boos for Juan Pablo to seriously. They have been booing my guy Jeff since he was The Kid. <BR/><BR/>This morning on Mike & Mike, Jimmie told a story about having a young cancer survivor with him for driver introductions (She was from Make A Wish). He told the guys that he had to warn her not to get upset when they walked out on stage, because he would be booed.<BR/><BR/>So, Juan Pablo is in good company<BR/><BR/>elenaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-85162402701823073942007-11-02T18:52:00.000-04:002007-11-02T18:52:00.000-04:00I missed practice and the first few qualifying Cup...I missed practice and the first few qualifying Cup cars, so my comments are limited to qualifying.<BR/><BR/>With the exception of the mystery technical glitch, I thought that the program was OK. I liked Burton and AJ as guests.<BR/><BR/>I don't understand why ESPN has been experiencing so many technical difficulties, but they are compounded by terse apologies that do not explain anything. It would be more considerate to viewers to at least recap who was skipped. Those of us who follow qualifying on the 'Net may know, but TV viewers are not updated properly.<BR/><BR/>At this point, we all know that there is no wizard behind ESPN's curtain. They could regain some much needed credibility by facing glitches head on and explaining the situation properly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-23820758568633375092007-11-02T18:47:00.000-04:002007-11-02T18:47:00.000-04:00Thanks modman for the info, it always is best to g...Thanks modman for the info, it always is best to get the technical issues out in the open.<BR/><BR/>What a wild day of NASCAR on ESPN2.Daly Planet Editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13834588435004023666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-19891176640190622552007-11-02T18:41:00.000-04:002007-11-02T18:41:00.000-04:00The uplink site backed up the TIVO and re-ran ever...<B>The uplink site backed up the TIVO and re-ran everything. </B><BR/><BR/>...just not on the air, apparently, since no one at home saw it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-57451441228248646122007-11-02T18:40:00.000-04:002007-11-02T18:40:00.000-04:00I was a little sad to hear all the boos for Juan P...<B>I was a little sad to hear all the boos for Juan Pablo Montoya when he got the pole, compared to the raucous cheers when Martin Truex (hardly the most popular guy in the world with fans, especially with Dale Jr leaving DEI and taking a lot of his fans with him) took it away from him. <BR/></B><BR/><BR/>JPM's being called Juan Problem Montoya, and not for nothing. You shouldn't be surprised when he gets booed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-77266826639172991342007-11-02T18:39:00.000-04:002007-11-02T18:39:00.000-04:00Re: Marty Smith's hair on NASCAR Now -It does look...Re: Marty Smith's hair on NASCAR Now -<BR/>It does look much better, but I feel a little sad for Marty, he probably feels like some of his personality -which comes across so well in his writing - is gone. First he has to wear suits, now fix his hair? I guess it's the price you pay for ESPN-dom because it truly didn't fit on NN like it did when he was on nascar.com.<BR/><BR/>Plus to make matters worse, Kasey Kahne dyed his hair black this week, he dyes it at some point every season. You know Marty wishes he could still do that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-79756886449712600842007-11-02T18:30:00.000-04:002007-11-02T18:30:00.000-04:00start an interview with Bono then go to black and ...start an interview with Bono then go to black and then end the broadcast........ are these rookiesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-49464417033635655182007-11-02T18:28:00.000-04:002007-11-02T18:28:00.000-04:00Enough!I've gone to SPEED to wait.Enough!<BR/>I've gone to SPEED to wait.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-75835588987164249522007-11-02T18:23:00.001-04:002007-11-02T18:23:00.001-04:00I was a little sad to hear all the boos for Juan P...I was a little sad to hear all the boos for Juan Pablo Montoya when he got the pole, compared to the raucous cheers when Martin Truex (hardly the most popular guy in the world with fans, especially with Dale Jr leaving DEI and taking a lot of his fans with him) took it away from him. <BR/><BR/>I could see a Truex pole being wildly popular at the Dover or NH track, but Texas? I think there's something underlying there that I'm not liking, but I better get used to it since JPM is just going to get better. So boos it is!<BR/><BR/>Other than that, I can't add a lot to the comments other than Dr. Punch is trying very hard to add excitement to his voice. maybe it doesn't work all the time, but I still appreciate the effort.<BR/><BR/>The camera people had some strange shots -the most strange was Carl Edwards mom, who even had her name under her camera shot. Kudos for the studio crew for not mentioning her. Unless it was her birthday or something, why was she on camera as Carl made his run? Maybe Dr. Punch and co. were as confused as I was and that's why they were silent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-24626576216549094802007-11-02T18:23:00.000-04:002007-11-02T18:23:00.000-04:00Summary of "ESPN's Big NASCAR Friday":Practice Cov...Summary of "ESPN's Big NASCAR Friday":<BR/><BR/><B>Practice Coverage - pathetic</B><BR/><BR/>For an entire practice session ESPN constantly showed us everything and anything but what was going on on the racetrack. Tons of fancy graphics, tons of video packages, and more air time for cattle than race car drivers. A complete debacle.<BR/><BR/><B>Qualifying - Not Bad, Until....</B><BR/><BR/>The qualifying coverage started out well. We saw every car's run for quite a while. Then the ESPN producer decided it was more important to see Jeff Burton's face than it was to see Paul Menard's qualifying run so we missed that entire run. Then things went well for a while longer until ESPN2 had some sort of problem. The screen went black during the 41's run, and then after a 5 minute long commercial break they came back on the air, 5 cars later in the qualifying session.<BR/><BR/>Despite the claims of a poster who claimed to be an insider that physically saw ESPN's uplink center rewind the TiVo back to the spot where they left off so fans wouldn't miss anything, this of course did not happen. After the technical difficulties the coverage resumed with Ricky Rudd's qualifying lap, and in between the 41 and 88, completely omitted 4 qualifying runs - and most importantly 3 go-or-go homers! If this "insider" is truthful that he saw ESPN rewind the TiVo back, then they rewound it back to the wrong spot! The 55, 10, 34, and 7 cars made their runs in between the time Sorenson ran and the commercial break immediately preceding Ricky Rudd's run, so ESPN did not make up for their problems and show the fans everything we missed! That would have only been accomplished by rewinding to the 41's run, not to the 88's run. Either that or ESPN consciously stopped recording their TiVo style broadcast for 10 minutes in between the 41 and 88 cars ran, and consciously decided to skip over those 4 cars and planned all along on the schedule of showing the 41's run, going to commercial, skipping over 4 straight runs, and then coming back from the break with the 88's run. Either way, ESPN dropped the ball. Pre-meditated or not, they skipped 4 consecutive qualifying runs, 3 of them being go-or-go home cars, which is completely inexcusable.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for nothing today ESPN. If wish they would follow TNT's lead and leave practice and qualifying coverage to the professionals at Speed Channel.stricklinfan82https://www.blogger.com/profile/01808897974344304657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-41848172567228392512007-11-02T18:16:00.000-04:002007-11-02T18:16:00.000-04:00I couldn't figure out why Punch was saying AJ's na...I couldn't figure out why Punch was saying AJ's name every other sentence. My, my he's a studio guest. Red Bull must have paid some "advertising fee".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-55058277727633390702007-11-02T18:00:00.000-04:002007-11-02T18:00:00.000-04:00I have to say the Ryan Interview with bruton was r...I have to say the Ryan Interview with bruton was rude and ignorant. I sat there CRINGING as the new announcement had just happened...I hardly think Bruton was going to share any 'secrets' with ESPU.<BR/><BR/>My 87 year old mom happened across the same interview and called me immediately to see if I thought it was horrible. I said yes...i was watching SPEED and during commercial switched to ESPN to see Ryan ask similar questions repeatedly.<BR/><BR/>Dang... I have decided he does really bad interviews...I don't like this NN host either...Sorry I didn't stay with SPEED's show. Glad to see a couple other posters felt the same waySophiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789033556426951026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-44203442023578964792007-11-02T17:58:00.000-04:002007-11-02T17:58:00.000-04:00oh well, so much for that..thought it would be Gor...oh well, so much for that..thought it would be Gordon who would beat him, not Truex.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-1181481223859823212007-11-02T17:56:00.001-04:002007-11-02T17:56:00.001-04:00Can Juan hold onto the Pole..let's hopeCan Juan hold onto the Pole..let's hopeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-4739607666766349842007-11-02T17:56:00.000-04:002007-11-02T17:56:00.000-04:00Anonymous said:'But the most important thing about...Anonymous said:<BR/>'But the most important thing about NN was Marty Smith's hair. You posters here have some power, I smiled at (and agreed) with all the complaints about Marty's increasingly outrageous hair a week or so ago but didn't think he would actually change it.<BR/><BR/>A nice normal cut, super blond highlights are gone replaced with a normal solid color, spikes minimal.'<BR/>November 2, 2007 4:08 PM <BR/><BR/>Just getting to that on the DVR. Amen to your comments about it finally looking normal. Like you said, hopefully Marty's hair will stay like most other reporters hair, in that I couldn't tell you much about it from this point forward. For those jobs, non-flashy hair is good.<BR/><BR/>And why was Bruton turned to the side during that interview? it was like he couldn't be bothered to look at the camera.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-6694377519188080042007-11-02T17:55:00.000-04:002007-11-02T17:55:00.000-04:00Yep...missed Mikey's run completely! Drat!Yep...missed Mikey's run completely! Drat!Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05040416772190103045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-27723806837393443162007-11-02T17:45:00.000-04:002007-11-02T17:45:00.000-04:00The power outage started right at the conclusion o...The power outage started right at the conclusion of Reed Sorenson's 1st lap and coverage picked back up when Ricky Rudd's run was underway. In between those two events 4 consecutive cars made their qualifying runs, so don't tell me we didn't miss anything thanks to the outage. They should have rewound back to the 41's qualifying run, not the most recent transition from a commercial break. By going back to the last commercial break we missed 4 runs so they did not "show us everything we missed".stricklinfan82https://www.blogger.com/profile/01808897974344304657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-50726417652620425782007-11-02T17:39:00.000-04:002007-11-02T17:39:00.000-04:00Striklinfan, I watched them back the tivo back to ...Striklinfan, I watched them back the tivo back to the previous break. If they weren't shown it had nothing to do with the power outage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-57786434764605863362007-11-02T17:36:00.000-04:002007-11-02T17:36:00.000-04:00They didn't back up and re-run everything!!!!!!! ...They didn't back up and re-run everything!!!!!!! We missed 4 qualifying runs - the 10, 55, 34, and 7! Three go-or-go homers!stricklinfan82https://www.blogger.com/profile/01808897974344304657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-17807980834989760682007-11-02T17:33:00.001-04:002007-11-02T17:33:00.001-04:00@anonymous 5:29--Dr. Jerry (almost 10 minutes late...@anonymous 5:29--Dr. Jerry (almost 10 minutes later) just did. He apologized saying they had technical difficulties earlier and reminded us that they were live at Texas :pAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-79450350458661473072007-11-02T17:33:00.000-04:002007-11-02T17:33:00.000-04:00According to ESPN master control, they lost power ...According to ESPN master control, they lost power at the uplink. The uplink site backed up the TIVO and re-ran everything. They just mentioned the problems. As much as the coverage has sucked this year... they handled this one okAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-12146964056967902962007-11-02T17:32:00.000-04:002007-11-02T17:32:00.000-04:00This is inexcusable. We just had the runs of THRE...This is inexcusable. We just had the runs of THREE go-or-go homers completely skipped (55, 10, and 34)!<BR/><BR/>More "human error", an ESPN exclusive in 2007!!!!!!!stricklinfan82https://www.blogger.com/profile/01808897974344304657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-83118480687795748492007-11-02T17:29:00.001-04:002007-11-02T17:29:00.001-04:00Human error. As usual.Human error. As usual.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com