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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Breakfast is Served!
Posted by Dawn at 9:58 PM
43 comments:
Ugh, my husband would like Lexi's toast. haha
- January 19, 2010 at 10:47 PM
- Feisty Irish Wench said...
It's entirely feasible that you could put jelly on the bottom edge of the toast and hold yourself over till you make another round of toast. Otherwise, you have 6 kids. SOMEbody can spare a couple fingers or toes.
- January 19, 2010 at 11:43 PM
- Nadia said...
my grandmas friend only eats his toast like this...the only thing I can figure is his mom was a horrible cook!! lol
- January 20, 2010 at 12:01 AM
- plainprecious said...
My 17 yr old LOVES his toast burnt. Which leads to me burning any more bread that I put into the dang toaster. Which he loves beause then he gets MORE toast. Hes weird what can I say!!!
- January 20, 2010 at 12:24 AM
- hot wave said...
It's for frozen waffles and pastry strudel.And,believe it or not,my youngest Son now 15,loved burnt toast.YUK,PEW.He would only eat the blackest part.Yes he is a normal,HA,15 yr.old.He's also very artistic like your Austin.Did he eat burnt toast?
- January 20, 2010 at 12:44 AM
- Sarah said...
I've often wondered why toasters have a burn setting? Probably to satisfy those strange individuals, like my neice, who actually ask for burnt toast
- January 20, 2010 at 6:03 AM
I am completely convinced that some things exist solely to make us ask why :)
- January 20, 2010 at 6:35 AM
- Sunnyworld said...
Yuck! The smell of burned toast is really awful. Believe it or not, I once took over a job from a woman who really did like burned toast. Every morning when she came to work, she made burned toast on purpose!! The office smelled yucky all day long!! Maybe that's why she left and I was hired? lol
- January 20, 2010 at 7:07 AM
- Donna said...
I know just what you mean about the toaster dial. I get alittle upset when someone turns mine to darker. I wish I had a lock on it. LOL
- January 20, 2010 at 7:10 AM
Because burnt toast is a CHEAP laxative! :)
- January 20, 2010 at 7:15 AM
- Laura said...
I have to say, I've noticed that, at least around where I live, English muffins take an unreasonably long time to toast and I actually set the toaster at or near the highest setting just to get them to brown a little. It's quite odd. I don't know why they take longer to toast than bread. Must be the nooks and crannies.
- January 20, 2010 at 7:41 AM
I never understood why, but Mom would religiously turn the setting to "darkest" and when the toast was finished, scrape the brown char off with a knife. When I would ask her why she just didn't set the toast to a lighter setting, she would always reply, "I like it this way." I can't see how, but maybe being a child of the Depression had something to do with it.
When Mom died, I got that same toaster which she received as a wedding gift; it's still going strong.
- January 20, 2010 at 8:13 AM
My husband will put the toaster on the dark setting when he makes his Eggo things. Makes me nuts because I always have to verify the setting before I can make toast.
- January 20, 2010 at 8:15 AM
- D&S said...
I'm completely with you on that one - not only do my children LOVE to watch Food Network (which has resulted in an apparent level of higher standards for my cooking... as my daughter commented the other night "Mom, there simply isn't enough color variety or garnish on this plate!" SIGH...) Anyhoo... and our toaster only toasts pleasantly if it is set in a delicate balance between the second and third line on the darkness setting... just add it to the list of questions to ask God when we get to heaven, i guess! :-)
- January 20, 2010 at 8:26 AM
My husband and I laugh about that all the time! Our toaster can be set all the way to 6 but anything past 2 is burnt! WHY? Even Bagels are burnt if you set it past 2.
- January 20, 2010 at 8:27 AM
Because if there is no burn setting on your toaster your children might actually make something tasty to serve you thereby ruining the rule that any breakfast made by kids for you will be disgusting. Sigh. :) And to think I thought I was being NICE to my mom!:)
- January 20, 2010 at 8:51 AM
- Joanna said...
I know a guy whose favorite snack is burnt toast broken into chunks, drowned in milk, and covered in pepper. How's that sound?
- January 20, 2010 at 8:54 AM
- Brooke said...
My dad and husband both like BURNED toast... I know, it's a sickness. But they are always happy to eat the accidentally burned toast like Lexi made, so I suppose they serve their purpose :)
- January 20, 2010 at 10:18 AM
- Jess in MI said...
My husband worked in product development at KitchenAid portable appliances and specifically on toasters. Here is his explination: The reason for the different settings is to account for cooking variances such as the type of the item (bread/bagel/toaster pastry), the consistancy of the item, the moisture content (freshness of item), and the altitude above sea level (which can impact cooking time).
- January 20, 2010 at 11:37 AM
- Dana from Alabama said...
My mom routinely burns most everything because she likes it "crisp" (aka "charred"). Muffins are the worst, with a layer of black charcoal on the bottom. She also makes two pies for holidays, a burnt one and a regular one. I have vivid memories as a kid standing beside my mom at the toaster oven begging her to take out my toast/Poptart/anything before it got black.
I don't understand it either.
- January 20, 2010 at 11:53 AM
Yum yum! I love toast done like this :)
- January 20, 2010 at 12:24 PM
- Cookie said...
We have the "burnt" toast setting so that we can tell "People who can make toast" apart from "People who can't make toast."
- January 20, 2010 at 12:24 PM
I love the toast kind of burned! And burned onions...there is just something delicious about it. Maybe that's why toasters have that setting. To satisfy those few individuals that love the torched toast. :-)
- January 20, 2010 at 1:20 PM
- Purple Quilter Queen said...
A.M.E.N!! Jenn
- January 20, 2010 at 3:14 PM
- Lisa said...
my great grandmother ate her toast this way, and toasted it ahead then wrapped it in foil looking this way. She ate it with her scrambled eggs. Hence my offering my kids burnt toast and ovaltine for breakfast, but no takers yet.
It appears that Lexi is still doing ok with cooking given all the responses from people who like toast like this! Her talents are under-appreciated in her own kitchen though.
- January 20, 2010 at 4:13 PM
"dark" is only for Eggo waffles (which you can't find anywhere right now!) and english muffins. And for a brave few -- Pop Tarts! I personally think that it should automatically sense when bread is put in the toaster though - we've had the "essence of burnt toast" many times at my house too....
- January 20, 2010 at 6:07 PM
My grandma came to visit and she said she like burnt toast. It thought she meant dark, crispy brown. No, she sent it through two toast cycles so it would be black, black like your toast.
As long as she eats it, more power to her.
- January 20, 2010 at 7:42 PM
- MaBunny said...
Our toaster does this too - not fun! At leas she tried! Our daughter loves the cooking channel too, but there is only so much of it that I can handle in one day!
- January 20, 2010 at 8:53 PM
- Eileen said...
burnt toast? yuck, now burn me a hot dog and make it black, yummooo!
- January 20, 2010 at 9:55 PM
Have your kids ever read the book, Burnt Toast on Davenport Street by Tim Egan? It's a great book with beautiful illustrations. Reading your post brought me back to a field trip to see Tim Egan at a bookstore where he explained to the kids how many rough drafts he did before getting to the final copy of his book. Wow, that was eight years ago!
- January 20, 2010 at 11:39 PM
My mother has been married 8 times! I know.. Crazy :O We use to joke that she has a collection of toasters as wedding gifts. LOL Kristine in Michigan.
- January 21, 2010 at 9:40 AM
- Wendy said...
Someone already mentioned English Muffins, but I use the darkest setting for bagels as well. They're so thick that a normal setting just doesn't do the job.
And no, I don't have a toaster oven. I want one badly. I dare say I may even covet one. But for now the lowly toaster makes due.
- January 21, 2010 at 11:37 AM
my mom loves her toast that dark, I'm dead serious, I know I don't understand it either but then again she's canadain....
- January 21, 2010 at 12:20 PM
Toast like that + hot sauce = great remedy for a hangover. No kidding :)
- January 21, 2010 at 1:56 PM
- Marissa L. Swinghammer said...
Because they can? So many people at my church set the toaster to burn and scarf down charred bagels every Sunday. It is quite disgusting, but not as bad as when people do it to steak.
- January 21, 2010 at 5:28 PM
- nutralady2001 said...
I keep my toaster on the "burnt" setting because I freeze my gluten free bread. I pop it in frozen and it comes out perfectly LOL
- January 21, 2010 at 7:31 PM
- Jessica said...
I just made my daughter some toast for lunch (her request). She said, "Make sure it's really burnt, please." ??? I don't know. She didn't get it from me!
Hope you feel better soon!
- January 22, 2010 at 1:30 PM
- Lisa @ Crazy Adventures in Parenting said...
My oldest has been trying to cook as of late. She doesn't burn toast, but... pretty much everything else. I've been eating tough food for about a week. I want her to learn, but, OMFGIWANNAEATNORMALFOODTOO {inhale, exhale}
- January 22, 2010 at 10:21 PM
- dorthyinoz said...
This is how they serve toast in England. Totally confused me when I was there.
- January 23, 2010 at 6:56 AM
My dad loves it burnt, he puts his poached eggs on top! I say Yuck, but to each his own, right?
- January 23, 2010 at 10:26 AM
- Michelle said...
Light: delicate bread that is already defrosted that you just want to have a light warming of and no color added.
Dark: You're toasting a frozen bagel. It takes this full temperature to adequately toast a frozen bagel. And sadly, I actually know this.
But woe betide the person in my house who messes with my settings without putting them back ;) Poor Lex!
- January 23, 2010 at 10:29 PM
Ah. Toast just the way I like it. Just add butter while the toast is hot and heaps of Vegemite and I'm in heaven. Sigh. Maybe it's an Australian thing...Bring on the nuked toast.
- January 24, 2010 at 2:46 AM
Hey Dawn,
This is for your Sunday Sound-Out
I would love to know if you do a weekly or bi-weekly menu? Do you use coupons? Budget out? Where do you grocery shop at? And what are your favorite meals to cook that your kids WILL eat? I only have 4 kids so this is so tough for me. You have a beautiful family btw. :)
- January 24, 2010 at 10:53 AM


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Boo Boo had a different voice in the first cartoon. It was nasally.
Watch Boo Boo with a cold....
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One of the classes I had was on Story Structure. I firmly believed that cartoonists should write cartoons and had convinced Nickelodeon of it. Not every cartoonist can write of course, but only cartoonists should write cartoons - just as only dancers can "write" (choreograph) dances, musicians can write music and sculptors can "write" sculptures.
I had a few cartoonists who were really funny, and those were the ones that had written the first season of Ren and Stimpy, because they could come up with a lot of gags. I found, though that I ended up having to structure all the stories, making them make sense, making them build, making the characters seem motivated and writing the dialogue so it seemed like each character spoke in his own style.
Some of the funniest cartoonists at the first Spumco were Bob Camp, Jim Smith, Jim Gomez, Vincent Waller and Rich Pursel. That was my main writing team, but almost every other artist contributed gags and ideas all through the production (almost all cartoonists are funny and I never turn down a good gag if it's in character), and now and then I would let an artist from another department do storyboards. BG painter Bill Wray did the board for Powdered Toastman and added lots of gags that weren't in the outline; "Cling tenaciously to my buttocks!" made me fall on the floor laughing. Chris Reccardi killed me with "You're next! Meeester Doggie Treeeeat!" in Man's Best Friend.
So even though you might have raw story and gag talent, you still need to know the skills of writing. Some are general, and some are specific to cartoons. Sometimes my writers would have Stimpy do things that were more suited to Ren, or the dialogue would seem just expositional, or the gags would not build, they would put the best gag first and follow with weaker gags of the same kind, etc...so I wanted to develop everyone's technical writing skills.
During the first class I held on story structure, I picked a cartoon to screen that was very simple and direct. It was the first Yogi Bear cartoon: Pie Pirates. I made everyone watch it and then write a story outline of what the point of the story was, what the characters' motivations were, what their personalities were and then to list each story point and gag in order.
IMPORTANT POINT: I didn't choose this cartoon because it was the funniest cartoon in the world or had the greatest animation. I chose it specifically because it was so simple that it was easy to analyze. The story is clear and doesn't have random twists and turns. All the gags are true to the premise of the cartoon and they build. Period.
I believe when you are learning anything, you should start with learning the simplest fundamental steps. If you want to dance, you don't start by studying Fred Astaire. You study Bill Robinson with a teacher who can break down his steps for you.
That's why I recommend Preston Blair to everyone who wants to draw cartoons. It has the same fundamentals that Bambi or Sleeping Beauty has, but they are easier to see in simple characters. You can't learn to animate by starting on a walk cycle using Aurora's design! (I know this from direct experience!)
They smell a freshly baked pie,look over a fence and see it cooling on a window ledge. Yogi wants to steal it, Boo Boo thinks it's a bad idea, but goes along with it.
The only problem is, there is a big mean guard dog in the yard and Yogi will have to get past the dog to get the pie, and most of the gags are about Yogi trying to outwit the dog to get to the pie. A typical situational short cartoon premise with an easy motivation that you can build gags on.
At a story session later, we were talking about Pie Pirates and I said, "Let's take the plot of Pie Pirates and just replace all the elements but leave the same structure!"
We replaced Yogi and Boo Boo with Ren and Stimpy.
We replaced the pie with a plate of steaming hog jowls.
The bulldog was replaced by a baboon in the yard.
Bob Camp did hilarious drawings of the baboon!
Bob Camp did the storyboard and this was a cartoon at Spumco, but it got produced at "Games" the first version of the Nickelodeon studio.
Here are more images from Pie Pirates.
I think we left this guy out.
It's a very limited animation cartoon-not even any inbetweens! But it's animated by Mike Lah and looks very Tex Avery-ish. Mike was an animator for Tex at MGM and when Tex left, he became the director for his unit. I don't mind limited animation if it has good posing, and I have a special affection for this cartoon. I love the rings around Yogi's eyes too!
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1 1/2 cups white flour
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup toasted chopped pecans
1/2 cup rough chopped dried cranberries
(I also used a dash of half & half as the dough was really dry)
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Turn dough out onto a large piece of waxed paper. Roll the dough into a log shape, roll the paper around it and twist the ends shut. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours. You can freeze the dough at this stage as well.
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This can't be taught. You either are an extremely interesting person, or you're not. You also should be sincere. You shouldn't have to read a book on how to write stories for film so you can use a tired old plot structure, just because that's what they tell you in film school. If you really have something to say, you can learn to say it in a structure that suits your voice, not Jeffrey's.
The animated features today and most TV cartoons are written by comittees of people who try to figure out what entertains an audience. http://www.adultswim.com/shows/metal/
They should instead be written by entertaining people who already know because they entertain people everywhere they go in real life.
That's why we have so much insincere non-entertainment crap like "Character-arcs", bad puns, ripoffs of famous movies in the guise of "parody", contrived pathos, characters who try to find themselves, bland protagonists, one-shaded villains, broadway style tuneless songs that "move the plot forward", in every damn feature. Another amazing lie you see in many animated features is when they make fun of corporations or try to teach the audience ethics-even though the movie is being made by evil corporate executives who have no morals at all - people who stop the actual entertainers from entertaining you so they can pretend to be creative themselves.
Anyone in the world can learn how to "write" this kind of stuff. It's not "story" or writing. It's just stuff. You just have to be related to the right person. A real writer has a sincere and unique outlook (his voice) on the world and has a naturally entertaining way to communicate it so that regular folks can enjoy it.
This insincere style of film making can be traced at least as far back as Irving Thalberg and the earliest film executives at big motion picture companies. These people exercised their creativity, not by getting on stage and dancing or telling a funny story, but by "giving notes" to real live entertainers.
How many folks complain about the Marx Bros. movies that have all that bullshit romance filler in the movies? Romance and story filler about characters THAT NOBODY IN THE AUDIENCE CARES ABOUT. This is pure executive thinking.
Who goes to a Marx Bros. movie to watch Zeppo and his ilk? Every second of the "story" makes you twitch around in your seat.
Today we have huge budget animated features with nothing but Zeppos in them, and no Grouchos. It's all filler and zero pure entertainment or a sincere creator's voice.
Instead they recycle the same 7 (or is it 12?) tired old "plots" and just change the catch phrases to match whatever characters they are plugging into the same script they have "written" 50 times already.
I actually used to hang out with some animation writers and they all had these formulas they firmly believed in. They were all convinced that every plot had already been written. Then I pitched them a bunch of stories that didn't fit any of those plots, they shook their heads knowingly in disdain until Mighty Mouse and Ren and Stimpy came out. Now these same writers and hordes of new opportunistic charlatans have added those plots to their scripts and recycled them for the last 15 years.
They copy the Simpsons plots now too and proudly admit it to each other!
Well you can certainly get away with calling yourself a writer by recycling ideas that have already been done and memorizing a character's catch phrases, and you can even make a lot of money doing it, but you won't ever be remembered in the same way that novelists, entertainers and cartoon directors are. Everyone knows Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jerry Lewis, Matt Groening, Moe Howard, Mike Judge, Tex Avery and Chuck Jones. Who the hell knows who Jeffrey Scott is?
I can't tell you how to have ideas. I will tell you how I got certain specific ones, but you should find your own. If you have them, your other artist friends probably know it. Don't trust your own opinion.
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I am watching "America's Best Dance Crew" right now, and I am hoping Jabbawockeez wins! I am going to miss seeing them on the show, and gosh are they cute! Jabba-hotties as they say! LOL.
So here is a FOTD I did today using some of the SheSpace minerals I got awhile back; very similar to also the mermaid look I did recently, but just using some of the SheSpace minerals and variations of teal. I also used "Melrose Mood" and "Starlet Kiss" from the Heatherette Collection. I am going to a Lakers game tomorrow at the Staples center with my company, our CEO got us boxed seats since we acquired another website to add to our repertoire. So you know I am gonna be rocking some yellow and purple makeup!
The color was more vibrant in person, so I apologize if it looks a bit washed out...
What I used:
- Monistat Chafing Gel as primer
- MAC StudioFinish Concealer NC30
- Silk Naturals Foundation in "Buttery Gold"
- MAC Fafi Blush in "Fashion Frenzy"
- MAC PP in "Soft Ochre" as base all over lids
- SheSpace Mineral e/s in "Make Believe" applied wet on inner corners of the eyes
- SheSpace Mineral e/s in "Bed of Nails" applied wet on outer part of the lid
- KT Naturals "Cornflower" on outer part of the lid
- MAC "Fuchsia" Pigment applied wet on contour above the two colors
- MAC "Vanilla" Pigment applied dry on browbone as highlight
- MAC "Violet" Pigment applied a little on the middle of the lid and wet on lower lashline
- Revlon Colorstay Eyeliner in Black
- Tiffa Mascara Base
- L'Oreal Telescopic Mascara
- MAC Melrose Mood lipstick
- MAC Starlet Kiss Lipgloss
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FOTD: Using She Space Minerals
I am watching "America's Best Dance Crew" right now, and I am hoping Jabbawockeez wins! I am going to miss seeing them on the show, and gosh are they cute! Jabba-hotties as they say! LOL.
31 comments
- mandilicious said...
it is indeed very similar..:)
great minds think alike..well, almost coz this was inspired by leesha..
- March 27, 2008 at 10:32 PM
- Tracy said...
those colors are so pretty. how lucky... you get box seats for the laker game. i've never been. my boyfriend's boss always gives away floor tickets, but he never gets lucky. boo. :( have fun, though!
- March 27, 2008 at 10:43 PM
- karen, makeupandbeautyblog.com said...
I am Tivo-ing right now and will watch when I'm done working. I hope they win too, yay!
Fashion Frenzy looks really cute on you!
- March 27, 2008 at 10:44 PM
- Rachel said...
I think the colours look quite like the mermaid FOTD you did the other day??
But I still love it nonetheless!!
- March 27, 2008 at 10:50 PM
- kat said...
i think this is my fave fotd! love it nessa!
- March 27, 2008 at 11:28 PM
- Christiana Divine @ Memoirs of A Shopping Addict said...
very very pretty! i really like it and you look stunning as always. :) and i love the she space piggies. :D hehe. :)
- March 27, 2008 at 11:29 PM
- Mrs. Lynne, MakeupFix.net said...
really cute sis!
- March 28, 2008 at 12:19 AM
- Nanzy said...
I'm watching them too ATM !!! hahahah yeah i'm totally Jabbawockeez-ed, hope they'll win.
I ordered some She Space pigments awhile back but she sent me email saying it's been busy and they'll be shipping delay. oh well...i just gotta be patience.. :D
- March 28, 2008 at 1:24 AM
- Aya said...
This is beautiful! I love it!
- March 28, 2008 at 3:27 AM
- Anonymous said...
Very pretty color combinations!
- March 28, 2008 at 3:57 AM
- Anonymous said...
oh, i was gonna ask you, do you apply your pigments on w/o mixing medium or do you use the mixing medium? firstname.lastname@example.com
- March 28, 2008 at 4:00 AM
- mayaari said...
love the gradient effect here - the colors blend so nicely!
and I *just* saw the final episode the other night and want to smack myself in the head for not watching sooner - that show is pretty awesome.
- March 28, 2008 at 4:32 AM
- christy. said...
You look lovely! :) I'm excited to see what your Lakers look will be like. :D
- March 28, 2008 at 4:42 AM
- MakeupByRenRen said...
ohhhh pretty...how do you like the tiffa mascara base? i'm running out of my shiseido one and if you like tiffa i might have to cop it!
- March 28, 2008 at 6:36 AM
- Bliss said...
The colours are so pigmented, very pretty FOTD, i especially love your lip colour, i can only wish i could carry off that kind of shade :)
- March 28, 2008 at 6:37 AM
- the Muse said...
you look gorgeous, as always 'nes!
Love ya!
- March 28, 2008 at 8:19 AM
- Meredith said...
I love, love, love the colors - what a great Spring pick-me-up! Beautiful!!
- March 28, 2008 at 8:36 AM
- Charlene said...
this is really really pretty! I still can't get used to monistat anti-chafing gel being used as a primer haha.
- March 28, 2008 at 8:49 AM
- Divine Blackness said...
What a beautiful and fun look. I was kinda mad Jabba won. I was so going for Kabba Modern. Booo...someone cheated. LOL!
- March 28, 2008 at 8:49 AM
- Vi Anne said...
One word: Gorgeous!
- March 28, 2008 at 9:13 AM
- Anonymous said...
I like the Jabbawockeez too! Although I was rooting for Kaba.. but I'm glad Jabba won instead of SQ! Anyway, I love this look! You're totally rocking the cool colors and Melrose Mood! I wish I could.. :(
- March 28, 2008 at 12:43 PM
- Catherine said...
haha yes i agree, the jabbawockeez are indeed hotties =)
i love the look! the colors are totally perfect for spring
i just wanted to say i love reading your blog, it's so informative and fun!
- March 28, 2008 at 1:22 PM
- Nic Nic said...
your an inspiration to use bright colors! if only i had the guts :p i loved how to use the purple to line the lower lash line!
i really like your pink lips too!
- March 28, 2008 at 2:04 PM
- Julie said...
I didn't think SQ deserved to be in the final. Kabba was consistent throughout the show! Would've been awesome if Kabba had gotten thru though.
This looks so fantasy-ish :) Looks great!
- March 28, 2008 at 4:43 PM
- Anonymous said...
Hey - do you know what happen to madminerals? It's off topic but do you by any chance know the owner and whether she has cancer? I feel sad for her.
- March 28, 2008 at 8:06 PM
- ilurvemakeup said...
I love!!! :O
Sonia Kashuk redid their brushes btw! They are better now and I finally likey the white handles! :O
- March 29, 2008 at 10:53 AM
- Linda said...
this is sooooo pretty!!! i love the lips too. i didn't get that color though thinking it'd wash me out.
- March 29, 2008 at 12:11 PM
- Ginny said...
i love the colors and the application of your eyeshadow!!! lovely!
- March 30, 2008 at 8:54 PM
- wan said...
get well soon vanessa!
- March 30, 2008 at 10:46 PM
- ladyjane said...
Very colorful and pretty. I love SheSpace pigments :)
- April 1, 2008 at 11:24 PM
- Anna Cubana said...
I love this look! Such a great pretty combo for going on a night out.
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
ESPN Rebounds With Bristol NEXTEL Cup Telecast
Often in sports, teams stumble upon circumstances that just naturally help their efforts. Sometimes, things start out rather grim and then begin to work themselves out, seemingly without any effort. We refer to those moments as "blessings in disguise."
This weekend, ESPN gave away the practice and qualifying at Bristol Motor Speedway to the SPEED Channel. ESPN had schedule problems, so SPEED covered both the NEXTEL Cup and Busch Series on-track activities. Since SPEED already was showing the Craftsman Truck Series race on Wednesday night, ESPN was basically on the outside looking in most of the time.
Friday night, the network stepped back into the deep end of the pool with a high energy Busch race under the lights. It was a disaster from start to finish. No matter what ESPN tried to do, it simply did not work.
When they showed the leaders, a wreck happened in the pack. When they showed the hard racing, someone passed the leader. When they showed the pit stops under caution, the missed the restart coming out of commercial. They simply could not buy a break, and they certainly needed one.
Saturday night, as the NASCAR Countdown show continued its mediocre stagger toward the race, it seemed that a lot of the Friday ESPN mistakes were repeating themselves. A technical problem appeared on-the-air again, and then another horrible Suzy Kolber live-on-the-grid interview of a top driver. Does anyone ever listen to her questions? The pit reporters must cringe to see her coming their way.
Then, with the turn of the first wheel, the Bristol track delivered a big and unexpected gift to ESPN. Talk about a blessing in disguise. The most aggressive drivers in the top racing series in America lined-up like fifteen year-olds in Driver's Education class and began their Safe Driving lesson.
The long green flag runs at the beginning of this race were just what the doctor ordered for all of the ESPN announcers and production team. It gave everyone a chance to shake-off the problems of Friday night and get back in the groove of delivering a good effort.
Just like a baseball player in a slump, the NASCAR on ESPN gang went back to basics and concentrated on the fundamentals. Staying ahead of the leaders, listening to the announcers, and watching the action on the track really paid-off for this bunch tonight. A two groove track and lots of green flag racing let them do just that.
At Bristol, ESPN learned the hard way that almost anything "extra" that needed to be shown under green flag racing conditions required special treatment. The ESPN video split screen effect of two side-by-side video boxes is outstanding. It is sized correctly, and has a background that does not distract from the live action.
ESPN used the effect for pit reporters, live interviews, and most effectively to showcase more than one on-track battle simultaneously. It worked all the way up until the end of the race. In trying to show viewers that there was action all over the track, the production crew showed so many battles it was just confusing. There was no perspective on the leader inside the last fifteen laps, just lots of "battles in boxes."
In the end, however, the network really showed that they listen to the fans when they again went to a nice big wideshot and showed the top twenty cars battle to the line with the electronic scoring inserted. What a great way to end a race, so fans can not only see where their driver finished, chances are they actually saw him do it. Great move by the Producer and Director to coordinate that in advance.
As we mentioned in an earlier Daly Planet article, someone has been working very hard with Rusty Wallace on his TV performance. It took him a while to acknowledge his rough edges were just not going to make his TV career a smooth one. Also, the absolutely professional performance of Dale Jarrett in relief of Rusty on ESPN telecasts might have hastened that realization.
Wallace is thinking before he speaks the vast majority of the time. Gone are most of the emotional outbursts that consisted of catch phrases and run-on sentences. Saturday night, Rusty handled TV duties by calling the other on-air announcers by name, flowing smoothly between thoughts, and often times handling the "tosses" down to the pit reporters. He is very much improved, and just in time for The Chase.
Our friend Dr. Jerry Punch is having a tough time. He seems to be tired, and at crucial times when the action is hot he simply does not speak and then talks quietly in a monotone. His delivery is still as a reporter, and this was tough at Bristol.
When a former radio guy like Allen Bestwick or even a veteran TV personality like Marty Reid stepped-in for Punch, the difference in the energy of the telecast was amazing. Bestwick may not be "Mr. Personality" on-the-air, but he is clearly a consummate professional who can keep the energy high in a very "Dave Moody" kind of way. Reid was just happy to be there and his enthusiasm is contagious.
Needless to say, long green flag runs at Bristol need some big energy. Searching for something to say while the field tools around nose-to-tail with no one on pit road is a tough row to hoe. Andy Petree again stepped-in and was solid in his information. One of his best abilities is to admit when he has said something wrong before a replay or after a pit report. Fans love a good guess, and they also love someone not too high and mighty to admit they missed something.
Perhaps, the intense media hype of shows like NASCAR Now is interfering with ESPN's ability to speak to drivers. Dale Earnhardt Jr. looked like he was just about ready to deck Mike Massaro when he had to again speak about his step-mom in the pre-race. Jamie Little had several drivers who were almost flinching from her high volume in-your-face style of reporting. Friday night, Dave Burns had two drivers who almost totally ignored him, goofed on him on national TV, and then looked like they wanted to push him out of their pre-race pick-up truck ride.
NASCAR is now seven months into the hype machine of ESPN News, NASCAR Now, NASCAR Countdown, ESPN.com, and even SportsCenter. It looks like this approach has been weighing very heavily on the drivers who are targets of the hype. Tony Stewart already got into it very publicly about ESPN and their "knife in the back" style of reporting on NASCAR.
As the season heads into its most intense time, ESPN may be well-served to make a little peace with the NASCAR drivers instead of reporting on every little family squabble and off-color comment. The lack of happy cooperation with the pit reporters was clear for all to see on this telecast. This is the time of the season when people are tired, tempers are tight, and careers are on the line.
ESPN again finds itself surrounded by SPEED next weekend. SPEED shows the Craftsman Trucks on Saturday late afternoon at Gateway, and they again show the practice and qualifying for both the Busch and NEXTEL Cup Series in California. ESPN has the late Saturday night Busch Series race, and the 7PM Eastern NEXTEL Cup race on Sunday.
California is the last NEXTEL Cup race on ESPN, as the coverage shifts to ABC Sports for the rest of the season. This can only mean one thing for most viewers...two weeks to Brent Musburger.
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30 comments:
- Matt said...
John, your comments are right on. I was thinking the same thing about Dr. Punch. Maybe working almost non-stop every weekend since February is taking it's toll on him? Perhaps ESPN should look into hiring a seperate Play-by-Play
man for the Busch or Cup races. (And we all know who that is.)
And speaking of him, did anyone notice how happy Tony Stewart was when being interviewed on countdown by AB? Every driver loves talking to Allen Bestwick and visibly hate talking to any other pit reporter on ESPN. Wonder why?
Now we all know that ESPN won't make any changes for this year, but they MUST make major staff changes if they expect to produce any sort of respectable Championship coverage. This is not TNT's "summer swing" or even FOX's early season races. This is the Big Time, the Spotlight time of the year and ESPN must step up both on and off air to gain respect from drivers, teams, and fans.
- August 26, 2007 at 1:10 AM
- Brian said...
Dr. Jerry Punch seems like a great man, and he seems like an awesome reporter after seeing some of the stuff he's done in the past. Did he sound a little under the weather or tired today, or was it just me?
Anyway though, as John said, you can definitely see how tired the drivers are of most ESPN Pit Reporters. I haven't see this with people interviewed by AB, they all know who he is, we know who he is.
It's just interesting to see how much happier people are with him, instead of someone like Suzy, or anyone else, haha.
ESPN seems to be listening about small tweaks and changes, that's great. I know most people are with me on this, but man just swab AB and Dr. Punch already. Seriously.
I miss AB in the booth, he is one of the best, if not the best play-by-play guy out there, I would personally tie him with Mike Joy.
I wish they could swap people out, but they seem very hesitant to make any personnel changes, my words are a waste, but I'd like to see AB and Dr. Punch swapped.
Marty Reid is great, too!
Brent Musburger is funny, maybe not for the right reasons, but he certainly makes it interesting! Haha.
- August 26, 2007 at 2:01 AM
- Seiko said...
John good review of the race tonight.
On the subject of Rusty I believe its too little too late.
You had to mention Brent Musburger didn't you. Now ill be saying pardner (thats how he pronounces partner) for the rest of the weekend.
- August 26, 2007 at 2:20 AM
- Anonymous said...
"two weeks to Brent Musburger"
At least the chick with the ponytail is hot. I like her.
- August 26, 2007 at 3:59 AM
- Carl In Alaska said...
OK, earlier I predicted a 45/55% commercial vs racing breakdown after the race. I apoligize, it was 37.5/62.5%. I believe that includes caution laps. Just can't sleep.
- August 26, 2007 at 4:22 AM
- Anonymous said...
We must have watched different races. I thought it was pretty close ot the worst race coverage I have ever seen. Time Brewer's explanation of "short spindles" left mroe questions than answers. The quote of the race has to be "He is mired deep in the chase" what the heck does that mean? Why did ESPN end up with such a second rate group of annoucers? Is everyone else busy? Be glad when this is all over.
- August 26, 2007 at 7:58 AM
- bevo said...
Good review John, and nice suck-up to Moody! :)
I don't think Rusty is the right person for that role. Jarrett should take over next year. He's objective and he brings an expertise without a "look at what I did" perspective.
The SportsCenter snark has infected everything else they cover and you're seeing that with the reporters covering NASCAR. The glory days of Dan Patrick, Olbermann, Steiner and Mayne are long gone. That style worked because of those personalities, there wasn't the mean-spirit feel of now. It seems like many of the reporters covering the actual events think they're auditioning for SC.
- August 26, 2007 at 8:03 AM
- Anonymous said...
The coverage sucks... can ESPN go into a commercial break or come out of a commercial break without showing us some stupid pre-produced piece og garbage?
Remember... we are here to WATCH CARS RACE ON THE TRACK! That's it... we can go to MTV if we want music videos.
- August 26, 2007 at 8:33 AM
- Anonymous said...
Sunday Morning's SportsCenter showed pre-season football highlights ahead of last night's race. Even the analysts are saying during the show that pre-season football isn't an accurate indicator of anything. So why does it still get ahead of NASCAR? You "stick-and-ball" people may be on to something.
- August 26, 2007 at 10:41 AM
- Anonymous said...
Did we watch the same race?
I thought ESPN fell to a new low in bad camera work, missed stories, and ignored drivers.
I was live at the Speed Insider boards and we had a running joke through the entire race thread about not knowing that various drivers were even in the field -- guys like the defending winner, Kyle Busch, the 2 currently hottest drivers, Tony and Kurt, the guys coming back from deep in the field, Tony, Biffle, Kyle, ...
Not only did they never once do anything resembling a "Through the Field" rundown on everyone's handling status and pitstop plans, they didn't update who was on the lead lap and who was not when green flag stops were interupted and didn't mention that there were "tail end of the lead lap" cars after that.
The Fox Trax indicated that some cars were fast early and faded while others came in late and made passes, but ESPN didn't bother to mention "comers and goers". Nor did they think it was worthwhile to discover what happened to Johnny Sauter the first time. Fox would have been on it with 3 camera angles before the pits opened but all ESPN found necessary was a late mention of Sauter's "troubles".
I'm reading articles about a boring race, but judging from the Fox Trax and what others reported from MRN, the drivers' radios, and Hotpass, there was a decent race hiding under lousy camera work and empty "coverage".
- August 26, 2007 at 11:17 AM
- Anonymous said...
I loved this follow up comment from bevo:
"The SportsCenter snark has infected everything else they cover and you're seeing that with the reporters covering NASCAR."
I have quit watching any pre-race television from The Four Letter. I don't watch TFL for Sports Ctr anymore. I go there for the event, and then thats it. I will watch during college football season, again, mainly the event and maybe Kirk, Chris and the Dick Vitale of college football. Bevo's comment sums up why I don't. The "snark" has infected everything.
As to the race, I would like to have seen a tighter finish shot, it was a little too far away for me to id the cars-but hey, at least they are working at it.
I like Jerry Punch-a lot. I'm in Raleigh, and so if you know about him you understand he is also a sentimental favorite of mine. And I hear he has wanted the role he has now for a long time. Quite frankly, I just don't notice him as good or bad. If you listen to PRN radio you know how bad overhyping a race is, and MRN does it right.
I love Andy Petree and Tim Brewer. Last night I liked Brewer's trying to explain the blown engine-I still don't quite get it but I like the attempt and the graphics. I also liked both those guys as crew chiefs.....esp Tim Brewer when he was with Junior (Johnson). So I am predisposed to like them now.
I was impressed we did not have to see Carl's crew jumping around after the win. I assume they did, but I don't need to see it. Show it to us in a wrap up.
This is clearly a step in the right direction.
- August 26, 2007 at 11:19 AM
- Anonymous said...
Courtesy of Jayski.com
Commercial breakdown Sharpie 500:
Total number of commercials: 123
Total number of companies or entities advertised: 79
Total number of brief promos of products/services during the race broadcast: 14
Start time to record race/commercial periods 08/25/07: 8:00 PM
End time to record race/commercial periods 08/25/07: 11:19 PM
Total minutes: 199
Minutes of race broadcast: 146
Minutes of commercials: 53
Number of debris cautions with no debris identified: 1
Number of missed restarts: 1
Total race brdcst time: 146 Total comm. brdcst time: 53
See the full report at CawsnJaws.com.(8-26-2007)
- August 26, 2007 at 11:36 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anonynous 11:17AM,
I agree with your comments on in-race stories, but with Bristol everything is just a little too fast for big picture storytelling.
I think the big test will be the upcoming California race. Will they follow the real stories of the race, the Chase, and the top 35?
Or will we see Draft Tracker, Suzy and Brad, California Speedway Girls, music videos, and celebrities?
Get ready, because ESPN has an LA office and the ABC/Disney guys are all into the West Coast hype. It could be another "entertainment extravaganza" instead of a hardcore important race weekend.
- August 26, 2007 at 11:40 AM
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- August 26, 2007 at 11:47 AM
- Sean said...
I posted this in the other column, but I guess I'll post it here too.
Only 1 missed restart(still no excuse though)
Good pit reporting most of the time.
Rusty didn't say aero loose 50 times.
No "draft crap"
No black out with 3 laps to go.
ESPN continues to have trouble updating what happens to cars who have wrecked.
Rusty continues to be Mr. Common Sense.
I felt like I was watching Golf the whole race. Does Dr. Jerry Punch ever get excited, ever? This guy never rose his voice once, even on the final lap. Good job Dr. on continuing to put fans to sleep, and for the ratings to drop.
COMMERCIAL TIMING. They went to a commercial twice while the caution had just come out. ESPN seems to be the only one having these problems out of all the networks.
INTERVIEW THE TOP 5 AFTER THE RACE. I want to hear Clint Bowyer after his 3rd place run speak. Or Tony Stewart after having a bad car all day, and then finishing up 4th.
ON AIR-CHEMISTRY. These guys don't fit with each other and it shows. NASCAR fans need some sort of excitement in the race. Switch Allen Bestwick with Punch, and the race would be 10x better broadcasted. Remember the St. Louis Busch Race anyone?
- August 26, 2007 at 11:54 AM
- Anonymous said...
Great review of the race coverage.
"Dale Earnhardt Jr. looked like he was just about ready to deck Mike Massaro when he had to again speak about his step-mom in the pre-race."
There is something personal going on between these two. I don't know when it started - a few weeks ago probably, but Massaro's interview in practice/qualifying back then seemed to really upset Junior. I don't even remember what was said, but ever since then, he visibly tenses up when Massaro asks the questions (which is often). He looks angry and answers in a monotone. Either Massaro needs to talk to him and clear the air, or ESPN needs to send someone else to cover Junior's pit for the next few weeks until things blow over, which I'm sure they will. It is not a good thing for us as viewers to watch. Junior seems fine with people other than Massaro.
I hadn't noticed any issues with Jamie Little (you were right yesterday, she is improving)or Dave Burns, though I don't think the drivers were impressed with Shannon Spake when she was in the pits.
- August 26, 2007 at 12:06 PM
- Anonymous said...
Jerry Punch is fine where he is. This is a new group of guys working together for the first time. The chemistry is not going to be like it is on fox, where they have been working together for seven years. Give Jerry a break and find someone eles to pick on, how about Bill Weber? Ot someone who actually does bad at their job.
- August 26, 2007 at 2:48 PM
- bevo said...
Anonymous 2:48 p.m. -
We are not "picking" on Jerry Punch. We are simply stating that his talent is best used in the pits. He is a fantastic reporter, he gives great insight about the race and knows how to chase down a developing story during the race.
If you want some comments about Bill Weber go back in the archives (it's on the right side of the main page) and read about the TNT coverage. Yes, that's correct! Bill Weber DOES NOT work on the ESPN coverage! Amazing isn't it? Right now the coverage of NASCAR races is handled by ESPN and soon ABC. That is why we are commenting on Dr. Punch, Wallace, Petree and the others.
I find the comparison of Jerry to Bill Weber to be insulting. Compare him to someone like Bob Jenkins, Mike Joy, Eli Gold, Ken Squier.
- August 26, 2007 at 3:48 PM
- William said...
I keep asking myself, Who does ESPN create this show for? Who is the target demographic? It's telling that I have to ask this because I'd rather just be watching what was a pretty good race.
I can only figure that ESPN is trying to bring new viewers to NASCAR. They are looking for people that only watch their station and didn't have ESPN back in the day when they previously had NASCAR races.
ESPN spends way too much time explaining the same things over and over(even my Fiancee is getting annoyed with seeing the broken spring animation) They are entirely too enamored with low shots that accentuate the speed of the cars. OOoooh, it's a fast car, never mind that someone who cares how the race is going can't tell much from colored blurs rushing by! They must be going after the people watching that don't have a favorite driver because they don't tell us what's going on with anyone stuck back past the top 5. They don't tell us who pitted when or how many laps until they will have to pit, TNT was better about that.
Is hearing the vital statistics of the race, seeing who goes into the pits and the order they come out, and having a view of several cars at once too much to ask? Would the Casual Race Fan hate that? Why doesn't ESPN respect that the race is why we watch?
They don't cut to a booth outside of a football stadium during a play to explain another play. They don't explain basic baseball rules or strategy during every single game. Do you think they would ever make a "tool" to show the areas of lift and drag on a baseball to show how it sinks or curves?
RESPECT THE RACE! It's why everyone is there and watching on TV! Show us the damn thing!
- August 26, 2007 at 3:57 PM
- Anonymous said...
Did I miss something or were there no comments on ESPN about Kurt Busch drinking Miller beer in Victory Lane? If so, could it have anything to do with Miller's being a sponsor on the Everything's Sinking Pretty Much network - but, Tony Stewart & Schlitz are fair game???
- August 26, 2007 at 4:30 PM
- Anonymous said...
According to NASCAR Scene, the Richmond Nextel Cup race is on ESPN as well. I believe ABC begins coverage at New Hampshire.
- August 26, 2007 at 5:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
The ESPN coverage was so traumatically terrible that I remain depressed, hours after the end of the race. Disjointed, annoying stages, "cold" presentations ruin any description of racing action.
The dulcet tones of Suzy Kolber make me feel like I'm in kindergarten instead of watching superb athletes put their lives on the line.
The only thing worse than ESPN is Bill Weber.
I'm read for some football...with hopes of regaining my sanity.
- August 26, 2007 at 5:40 PM
- cwebs said...
I gotta agree with the folks that are complaining about ESPN's coverage of:
Anticipating pitstops
Analyzing different pit strategies
Recapping what happened or didn't happen during/after a round of yellow flag stops
Reporting when important cars lose/gain laps
Showing us cars (especially lead-lap cars) coming down pit road and/or coming off pit road.
I know this kind of stuff isn't always easy to cover on a fast short track like Bristol, but it seemed to me they weren't even really trying! I might not be so critical if I hadn't already seen similar coverage lapses by ESPN near the end of the races at both Indianapolis and Michigan, neither of which could be called "short tracks"!
Sure, there were times during last night's race where even a perfect TV crew would have missed things, but there were many other times when ESPN was just out to lunch.
Many times while some important stuff was happening, ESPN was busy either over-analyzing the wreck or mechanical problems of a back marker, running a "30 at 30" update, showing us the "Good Hands Move" of the race, forcing Suzy & Brad into the broadcast, going to the "tech center", or simply packing in more commercials.
I do agree, however, that a Bristol race maybe isn't the best time to call them out on this. As stated by JD, I think next week's race at California will be a better test for ESPN on these particular issues.
In last night's thread, I said ESPN did an overall fair job of covering this race. To me, "fair job" means a C grade or just simply "average". Unfortunately, ESPN has lowered the bar so far down that they can claim an "average" broadcast as a victory.
Were there tail end of the lead lap cars on one of those restarts??? I don't remember them even mentioning that. Probably, they figured it was just too hard to explain such a "complicated" thing to all of the newbies they seem to think are their target audience.
- August 26, 2007 at 6:33 PM
- Andy Pandy said...
I thought the ESPN guys did better than usual, but they're still a long way from FOX. Rusty cut down drastically on the "Tell you what" comments – I don't know if I heard a single one. Andy added good info, and Dr. Punch was OK but lifeless. Most of the action was shown and described well, and we did get to see more than just the winner cross the line.
Now for the problems:
Can the three guys hear each other through the headphones? How many times will Jerry mention a fact about the driver on the screen and the next voice is Rusty stating the same thing in different words, like he just came up with it? It happens regularly, and not just with Rusty and Jerry.
How hard is it to simply mention when someone makes an unscheduled pit stop? There was a brief shot of Andretti heading to the pits in the first couple of laps but not a word was said. The same with McCumbee last week. I don't care if they're running in the back. Every driver has fans who want to know what happened to their driver, and all they have to do is say "The 49 is making an unscheduled stop – it looks like a flat left front" or whatever they can tell at the moment. Five seconds here and there out of three or four hours won't hurt.
Why must Jerry always say "Joe Driver is shown as the leader" and "Dave Racer is shown in fifth place", both during racing action and going to commercial? It sounds like they are being black flagged or for some other reason are being scored differently than where they actually are.
And Tim Brewer – he adds some good descriptions, but he just doesn't seem to be made for TV. Whenever they cut to him, it's like playing a 45 rpm record at 33. All the energy is sucked out of the broadcast and it comes to a screeching halt.
Suzy and Brad – no value added. I may be in the minority, but I think Jeff Hammond and Chris Myers are funny and informative in the Hollywood Hotel, but ESPN's humorless version just doesn't do it for me.
I can't bring myself to watch ESPN's pre-race show when I know SPEED has one going on, too. NASCAR RaceDay is much more informative and entertaining, faster paced, and the folks really seem to be working hard to put on a good show. John Roberts keeps the show moving and lets the other guys contribute but not dominate. It seemed like Wendy Venturini interviewed half the people in the infield this week. She asked good questions, seemed to have the respect of the people she was interviewing, and looked like she was having fun doing it.
Bring back FOX - or, at least, put AB in the booth.
- August 26, 2007 at 11:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
Another poster nailed it by describing the coverage as "disjointed." The commercial breakdown at cawsnjaws.com for the race showed the 2 longest segments of race coverage only went 11 minutes each, and the race was interrupted by 24 commercial breaks comprising over 26% of the 3 hr. 19 min. airtime. And Rusty's "I'll tell you what..." was replaced by Dr. Punch's "high banks of Bristol."
- August 27, 2007 at 3:21 AM
- Anonymous said...
ESPN's people apparently assume that because THEY don't know NASCAR that the fans don't either, and they must explain how everything works every week.
How arrogant.
- August 28, 2007 at 8:08 AM
- Anonymous said...
Reading all the other blogs, I find much agreement. ESPN is a hype machine, not a race network. Speed has more professionals that know their audience. No need for the over done weekly explainations. ESPN could really use different announcers. I actually mute the broadcast and listen to MRN or PRN. I can't stand Rusty's redundancies. Punch is fine but tired. Isn't he doing college football soon? The way NASCAR is set up, college football and even pro football will be more than welcomed. I'll read the race results on one of the .coms. The chase is making for boring points racing. No risks and no paint trading at Bristol is proof that drivers are points racing. Personally, I think they should put 36 numbers in a hat and draw 10 or 12 at the start of the year and say those races are double points or some number and let the chips fall where they may. It would give more than 12 drivers a shot at the championship. I thought Bristol was sold out. Careful looking into the stands during the race saw many empty seats. But then, maybe the bathrooms were full and the souvenir booths were busy. The race was less than exciting. Steve
- August 28, 2007 at 2:02 PM
- Anonymous said...
I never had any idea that I could actually miss Wally Dolly. I absolutely hate the ESPN coverage. My list of complaints could go on forever. If Speed is showing coverage, I watch until the green flag drops. Since ESPN took over for the season, I switch my TV to mute, turn on MRN or PRN, sit in front of my computer and use TRACKPASS and listen to the incar scanner. When listening to ESPN, I not only DON"T get enough information about the actual race because they are so busy trying to impress me with how clever they can be, I'm sick of hearing "Juan Pablo Montoya" over and over and over again. Nothing against the guy at all, but I think these announcers just like to say the man's name, over and over again. ARGHH!
- August 29, 2007 at 6:16 PM
- cwebs said...
anonymous -
That's it in a nutshell - We're not getting enough information about the actual race from ESPN.
To me, that's the first thing they should make sure to get right. Certainly, they need to figure out how to provide filler and develop chemistry in the booth, but at least tell us what's happening IN THE RACE!!!
- August 29, 2007 at 8:03 PM