[lilsexy08]

I was so pissed that this passed weekend Nascar was cut off for the rest of the baseball crap! Missed the prerace ceremonys and it came back on on the 2nd lap! I was so mad I only watched 3 laps in the beginning and the last 30laps! I turn it on raceday to watch a race not see the last of a stupid baseball game! Does anyone have any thoughts on this?! LOL!

[jks812]

I was alittle upset about it too. My station went back to the race at lap 6.

[bears9]

Okay, I was pissed when they left the race for the the baseball game, but in retrospect it was probably the right.

If you took a national survey, whether you like it or not, baseball would be more popular than NASCAR. Then what two teams were playing also had a big part of it. Yankees-Red Sox is easily the biggest rivalry in pro sports. Most people who are just plain baseball fans watch when they play.

FOX made the right move, whether we like it or not.

[Labontefan15]

I was kinda pissed that they switched but it was ok I mean it was just 6 laps

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by bears9

Okay, I was pissed when they left the race for the the baseball game, but in retrospect it was probably the right.

If you took a national survey, whether you like it or not, baseball would be more popular than NASCAR. Then what two teams were playing also had a big part of it. Yankees-Red Sox is easily the biggest rivalry in pro sports. Most people who are just plain baseball fans watch when they play.

FOX made the right move, whether we like it or not.

That statement has the background noise of money bein counted.... you on the take from FOX?

[Lefty Noob]

I know I'm in the minority here, but I also think they did the right move. Why? Because the end of a sporting event - no matter what it is - is more important to televise than the beginning of another. You see it all the time, in every sport. They stick with the first event to conclusion and join the second in progress. If it was the race end bumping the start of the ballgame, it'd still be the right move. That's just the way it's done, and to me at least, it makes perfect sense.

[NASCAR Gnome]

There's another thread on this board about the length of the pre-race shows in NASCAR and I touched on this interruption there but I think it all boils down to importance. Pre-race shows are long and sometimes boring and maybe they could be shortened - although I, for one, enjoy them in their current form - but the thing that really got to me is interrupting the "sacred" portions of the pre-race, if I may be allowed to use that term!

Forget all the other hoopla and hype surrounding the pre-race but I have grown accustomed to hearing the national anthem every time before a race starts. I listen to the invocation and prayer, and find those two things to be the "sacred" portions because unless you are at a live football (or other pro sport except maybe boxing) game, television never shows the viewer the national anthem (except for the Superbowl) and they certainly don't have a prayer. I think that because Fox decided to shove the baseball game down the throats of the race viewers and have us miss the anthem, prayer and "Start your engines" they really hit a nerve because they messed with tradition. If Fox had cut away when DW and the folks in the booth were talking but got back to the prayer, national anthem and stuff, I don't think there would be such anger. Take away the stuff that's trivial but please, not those things that matter to us!

[saltysenior]

the red soxs vrs. yankees, a stupid baseball game ?????

Originally Posted by lilsexy08

I was so pissed that this passed weekend Nascar was cut off for the rest of the baseball crap! Missed the prerace ceremonys and it came back on on the 2nd lap! I was so mad I only watched 3 laps in the beginning and the last 30laps! I turn it on raceday to watch a race not see the last of a stupid baseball game! Does anyone have any thoughts on this?! LOL!

[SteelPhoenyx]

Originally Posted by Lefty Noob

I know I'm in the minority here, but I also think they did the right move. Why? Because the end of a sporting event - no matter what it is - is more important to televise than the beginning of another. You see it all the time, in every sport. They stick with the first event to conclusion and join the second in progress. If it was the race end bumping the start of the ballgame, it'd still be the right move. That's just the way it's done, and to me at least, it makes perfect sense.

Then by your logic a NASCAR event should never be bumped for the beginning of any other sport when it runs late. Yet I've seen it happen a number of times.

[wardfan]

apparently the ball game was delayed for a couple of hours due to rain. Why didn't Fox switch the game to FX when it came back because they had to know it would run over the start time of the race. And am I the only one who noticed after they did finally switch to the race that they replayed the start with McReyolds waving the green flag and by damn we still had to hear the boogity boogity

[Bob Tanner]

I'm sorry but if missing a couple of laps, a mass prayer, a fly-over and the rest of the ceremonies is the most we have to complain about, we're not in too bad of a shape.

Even with the recent glitch (and I think FOX handled it sloppily and it was mildly irritating) what we have today is better (Even with DW and Larry Mac)than what we had a decade ago when only about 80% of the races were televised live.

[LSC9901]

Geeeeesh, I didn't think it was that big a deal. What action did we really miss ? I think we miss more during commercial breaks than we did this race. For the most part I do enjoy the pre-race stuff but to miss it once in a while doesn't tip my cart over.

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by LSC9901

Geeeeesh, I didn't think it was that big a deal. What action did we really miss ? I think we miss more during commercial breaks than we did this race. For the most part I do enjoy the pre-race stuff but to miss it once in a while doesn't tip my cart over.

Steve-O, I can come up with one REALLY GREAT and OUTSTANDING benefit of the FOX faux pas. We weren't subjected to DW banal "Boogity-Boogity..."

Ergo, it wasn't all bad, now was it?

[Fireball]

Originally Posted by salysenior

the red soxs vrs. yankees, a stupid baseball game ?????

I want you all to stop bad mouthing my New York Yankees. They are my favorite baseball team. I had a double header Saturday. I got to see my favorite baseball team loose and then I got to see my favorite NASCAR driver loose, too. What a day!

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by Fireball

I want you all to stop bad mouthing my New York Yankees. They are my favorite baseball team. I had a double header Saturday. I got to see my favorite baseball team loose and then I got to see my favorite NASCAR driver loose, too. What a day!

WOW ... thats odd. I watched that same ball game and my favorite team won !!!