Comments on: Everyone is mad that NASCAR preempts Yankees-Red Sox game http://uguethisburning.com/2008/04/14/everyone-is-mad-that-nascar-pre-empts-yankees-red-sox-game/ Because we were getting too much booty Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:32:51 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: marc http://uguethisburning.com/2008/04/14/everyone-is-mad-that-nascar-pre-empts-yankees-red-sox-game/#comment-128 marc Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:58:24 +0000 http://uguethurbina.wordpress.com/?p=132#comment-128 Where do I start, lets try here <em>"But NASCAR races take forever and 500 miles is way too long for those races and you can delay the start, especially in a sub-par, excruciatingly boring race track like Phoenix International Raceway."</em> You can, and the link seems to indicate you did have a racing blog, whichs make it very odd you would make an inadvertent, (or was it purposeful), mistake. Phoenix was and is 500 kilometers not miles. To be precise, 310.685 miles, but you knew that right? <em>"This debate is actually interesting. Do we blame FOX, NASCAR, the weather? In this case, everyone in the New York and Boston East Coast media is overreacting."</em> I agree, and the NASCAR fans are also, however Fox by contractual obligation was required to keep the b-game on the network. Althoug, facts are, some local affiliates abandoned the nat-network and cut to the race prior to the green flag. <em>"I think that is the real point here. NASCAR already delayed the start once. And while the East Coast hates NASCAR, baseball people and racing people actually respect each other pretty well it seems,"</em> Yep, they delayed at Fox's request. East coast "hates NASCAR?" Which east coast would that be? The one that sells out New Hampshire every year and has for over a decade? Or would it be the east coast where both nationally and locally NASCAR sanctioned tracks draw 100's of thousands each year. Is that the east coast you're referring to? <em>"with people from the Red Sox, the Diamondbacks, among other teams helping out in NASCAR ownership."</em> Let me see if I have this straight... you abandon your racing blog for what you claim is an overabundance of reality shows perpetrated by NASCAR - a patently false assertion, that crapola started long before NASCAR jumped on the trend - and crass commercialism (well, D'OH! Like every other sport isn't the same) then you give a bit of praise to the Diamondback and Sox owners for "helping out" I hate to do this to ya, but what they are doing is not called "helping out," it's just what you apparently have a heartache over, crass commercialism and BIG business. And BTW, you made the outlandish assertion the new car designed by NASCAR was done not just for safety but also for "more ad space." You have anything to back that up, or are you just blowing hot air. I vote the later. Where do I start, lets try here “But NASCAR races take forever and 500 miles is way too long for those races and you can delay the start, especially in a sub-par, excruciatingly boring race track like Phoenix International Raceway.”

You can, and the link seems to indicate you did have a racing blog, whichs make it very odd you would make an inadvertent, (or was it purposeful), mistake. Phoenix was and is 500 kilometers not miles. To be precise, 310.685 miles, but you knew that right?

“This debate is actually interesting. Do we blame FOX, NASCAR, the weather? In this case, everyone in the New York and Boston East Coast media is overreacting.”

I agree, and the NASCAR fans are also, however Fox by contractual obligation was required to keep the b-game on the network. Althoug, facts are, some local affiliates abandoned the nat-network and cut to the race prior to the green flag.

“I think that is the real point here. NASCAR already delayed the start once. And while the East Coast hates NASCAR, baseball people and racing people actually respect each other pretty well it seems,”

Yep, they delayed at Fox’s request.

East coast “hates NASCAR?” Which east coast would that be? The one that sells out New Hampshire every year and has for over a decade? Or would it be the east coast where both nationally and locally NASCAR sanctioned tracks draw 100’s of thousands each year. Is that the east coast you’re referring to?

“with people from the Red Sox, the Diamondbacks, among other teams helping out in NASCAR ownership.”

Let me see if I have this straight… you abandon your racing blog for what you claim is an overabundance of reality shows perpetrated by NASCAR - a patently false assertion, that crapola started long before NASCAR jumped on the trend - and crass commercialism (well, D’OH! Like every other sport isn’t the same) then you give a bit of praise to the Diamondback and Sox owners for “helping out”

I hate to do this to ya, but what they are doing is not called “helping out,” it’s just what you apparently have a heartache over, crass commercialism and BIG business.

And BTW, you made the outlandish assertion the new car designed by NASCAR was done not just for safety but also for “more ad space.”

You have anything to back that up, or are you just blowing hot air. I vote the later.

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