I Guess Nobody is Going to Say Anything
What was ESPN's biggest manufacture of the week? The gay athlete issue or NASCAR?
I can't believe ESPN took off, not just bumped, but put on hiatus Around the Horn and Pardon the Interruption to put NASCAR Now on for an hour every sinlge day this week. (Okay, I don't care about ATH, but PTI?! And to think I hated the Bob Ryan/Dan Le Batard vacation combo. Don't know what you got 'til it's gone...) ESPN is clearly very serious about this NASCAR thing. They bumped their prime programs, inserted NASCAR heavily into all the highlight shows and flaunted their fancy set, multiple correspondents and weird headset microphone thingies. Indeed, they did their best to make Waltrip's fluid malfunction into a national crisis.
I don't have anything against NASCAR. It's just not my thing (although I'm southern). Although ESPN is so desperate to force feed NASCAR down our throats that they would place a Black guy known for being a basketball player as a NASCAR analyst, I don't want them taking off my favorite shows for over analysis of crew chiefs and crank shafts (Okay, I learned a lot this week.) So now NASCAR has a new issue. I don't hate NASCAR coverage, but I do resent it.
6 comments:
I think we all just got used to ESPN knocking off ATH and PTI to ESPN2 or off completely at their whim for golf tournaments that no one cares about.
No one's shocked when they do this any more.
Even my NASCAR hating friends are now asking me about the "cheating" going on. While I'm huge NASCAR guy, I'm pretty pissed they bumped PTI over it. ESPN's coverage of NASCAR sucks though, SPEED is way better.
I tolerate the existence of NASCAR. I don't watch it but I love Tony Stewart and Kyle Busch because they piss people off. They're both like TO, without the athletic ability and melanin.
Dude, you are dead on! In fact, I echoed your sentiments a bit earlier today. I focused my aggression on the pimping that occurred on SportsCenter, though.
http://complaininvain.com/2007/02/16/espn-mindcontrol.aspx
Hopefully the NASCAR push will slow after Daytona.
Found this blog looking for an explanation of ESPN's idiotic decision on Google--I have no idea how they thought this was a good idea. It's never been so easy to turn off ESPN and hit the books before.
I didn't think I could get any more pissed off at ESPN...until they took PTI away from me for a whole week...
This is even worse than Kornheiser and Wilbon taking a month off in the summer.
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