tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post6500649135743160893..comments2024-03-05T06:32:37.180-05:00Comments on The Daly Planet: SPEED Returns To Qualifying And Practice At MISDaly Planet Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13834588435004023666noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-53753122756001118772008-08-13T20:57:00.000-04:002008-08-13T20:57:00.000-04:00Excellent. ALL qualifying should be on SPEED.Excellent. ALL qualifying should be on SPEED.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-50462513845612400502008-08-13T18:11:00.000-04:002008-08-13T18:11:00.000-04:00Ty Desmond! Sometimes I luck out and remember the ...Ty Desmond! Sometimes I luck out and remember the race but most just remember the mess surrounding it all :(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-26195139949131538332008-08-13T14:51:00.000-04:002008-08-13T14:51:00.000-04:00Thank Goodness for SPEED. Welocome back. Sure wish...Thank Goodness for SPEED. Welocome back. Sure wish that they would cover all the practices and qualifying all the time.<BR/> THANK YOU SPEED.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-49132091445955630442008-08-13T14:03:00.000-04:002008-08-13T14:03:00.000-04:00I'll have to try and catch Lindsay. I didn't real...I'll have to try and catch Lindsay. I didn't realize that she was on the Oxygen coverage.<BR/><BR/>Good for her!<BR/><BR/>See, JD, you run a full-service blog. :)Lisa Hoganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15816899271672467136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-25182397469770545822008-08-13T12:43:00.000-04:002008-08-13T12:43:00.000-04:00The race Gymmie was referring to was the Carfax 25...The race Gymmie was referring to was the Carfax 250 exactly one year ago.<BR/><BR/>Similarly, I remember in April 2007 when the NASCAR Busch (now N'wide) Series Pepsi 300 began just at the green flag because of tennis. I recorded that race and almost missed the start. (In contrast to the April 2008 Subway Fresh 500, when <I>all of us</I> missed the start.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-39682465285305350682008-08-13T11:00:00.000-04:002008-08-13T11:00:00.000-04:00shoot...now I gotta figure out how to leave work e...shoot...now I gotta figure out how to leave work early...<BR/><BR/>Bobby, I remember that well, was just thinking about it last week while we were hearing about him racing--I think it's good that ESPN shows these kids; but thank goodness for Speed.<BR/><BR/>It's a stretch, but speaking of TNT--I did see Lindsay Czarniak on the Olys yesterday. She more or less had a 'hostess' job introducing segments, but she sounded knowledgeable (and she looked fabulous...it was Oxygen, after all!) The chick on MSNBC doing the same thing was worse than awful...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-84657846116182241632008-08-13T07:26:00.000-04:002008-08-13T07:26:00.000-04:00One funny thing about the Little League World Seri...One funny thing about the Little League World Series was six years ago, one Austin Dillion played in the LLWS.<BR/><BR/>Think about it.<BR/><BR/>Richard Childress even left MIS to watch Austin and his brother play at Williamsport.Bobbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02366544608847776006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-85422671212612092352008-08-13T06:55:00.000-04:002008-08-13T06:55:00.000-04:00Too sum it up briefly, ...Yahoo!!!!!!!!Too sum it up briefly, ...<BR/><BR/>Yahoo!!!!!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-53121238683490636232008-08-12T21:43:00.000-04:002008-08-12T21:43:00.000-04:00Why didn't SPEED get the practice/qual rights in t...Why didn't SPEED get the practice/qual rights in the first place? It's the perfect channel for them.<BR/><BR/>I agree w/Strick about qual and the "gomers". That's the most exciting part. BTW, thanks for the tennis heads up. I like the bag analogy.<BR/><BR/>My real burning question is, how did ESPN get racing back in the first place? Don't you have to have these things in a contract. Agree to show all aspects of NASCAR? How does this work?Dothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15701502016993312530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-17414055894658413952008-08-12T21:16:00.000-04:002008-08-12T21:16:00.000-04:00Thank goodness, I'll actually see cars on the trac...Thank goodness, I'll actually see cars on the track during practice and qualifying and no stupid 8X10 box. I'll watch what I DVR for a change.Newracefanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16324764517098771035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-72097691265752127262008-08-12T20:21:00.000-04:002008-08-12T20:21:00.000-04:00I was so happy when I was verifying my recordings ...I was so happy when I was verifying my recordings and saw everything was on SPEED this weekend...now if Rick and Phil can figure out a way sneak the races on SPEED I would be in heaven! <BR/><BR/>I agree with you stfan! I'll definitely be in SHOCK the day they actually put NA$CAR above other action. Other people can move like we had to last year...and *still* were in the dark some weeks. <BR/><BR/>Some weeks the Countdown was only available to the 0.001 people who have access to 360 or we'd be shuffled over to E3 to find out that just as the invocation was getting underway we were "kicked out" without nary a word or screen crawler to tell us "in 5 minutes head over to the Deuce for the rest of the action". We hear the beginning and a milisecond later there are football poeple on our screens!<BR/><BR/>Then we had that one race where we went through every channel before we finally settled on one for the race. Where IIRC, we started out on the Deuce got "kicked over" to E3 where we watched the rest of the Countdown and beginning of the race and then we ended up over on ESPN for the rest of the day. And of course Reuti's win where they couldn't take a minute to do a VL interview. It wasn't like the game was starting that second, they had their "pregame" that could have waited a few minutes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-42391552658269103022008-08-12T19:17:00.000-04:002008-08-12T19:17:00.000-04:00Thank goodness for the Little League World Series!...Thank goodness for the Little League World Series!!!!!<BR/><BR/>What a treat to have the Friday and Saturday coverage return back to normal. No tape-delays. No "joined-in-progress". No "lunch break" for the TV crew that creates a gap with no TV coverage of one of the practice sessions during the day. And most important of all.... we actually get to SEE qualifying and practice on our TV screens. The on-track action will not be covered up by full-screen video packages and stats, and there will be no studio guests to take the focus of the announcers and the director away from the race track.<BR/><BR/>THIS is how coverage of practice and qualifying should be every week. We get it from February through mid July as it is. It's time to go back to pre-2007 and keep that trend going all the way through November.<BR/><BR/>JD, I'm going to have to disagree about the lack of drama in Cup qualifying. As long as there are more than 43 cars there is still plenty of drama. Yes one of those teams is the #08 but just remember they only have to beat one go-or-go home car to make the race. We've seen underdog teams pull out a magical lap many many times in the past, and you never know when someone will have a flat tire, engine or transmission problem, or flat out slip or crash trying to qualify on the ragged edge.<BR/><BR/>I already see that ESPN2 has again only allowed a two-hour program block for a live tennis match on Saturday afternoon immediately before the Nationwide race. This will officially be our re-introduction to ESPN's philosophy of trying to fit 10 pounds of "stuff" into a 5 pound bag.<BR/><BR/>If anyone thinks I'm being overly pessimitstic about the mess we could be in for on Saturday just check the archives for what happened on this same Saturday last year under these exact same conditions. Sometimes people obviously don't learn from their mistakes....<BR/><BR/>IRL fans, I envy you now that your racing series will soon be on a network that won't put you through these scheduling headaches.stricklinfan82https://www.blogger.com/profile/01808897974344304657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080132098367510832.post-50203540932594535562008-08-12T15:39:00.000-04:002008-08-12T15:39:00.000-04:00I am soooooooooooooo happy!Thank you, SPEED.Thank ...I am soooooooooooooo happy!<BR/><BR/>Thank you, SPEED.<BR/><BR/>Thank you, JD for the bonus news that SPEED will cover at Bristol also. <BR/><BR/>I am soooooooooooooo happy!Lisa Hoganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15816899271672467136noreply@blogger.com