Marc at Full Throttle and Charlie at On Pit Row, who unlike yours truly actually work at this auto racing blogging thing, have recently noted some flotsam and jetsam floating about in cyberspace warranting observation:
- The theory currently making the rounds that FOX coerced NASCAR into calling the Daytona Not Quite 500 early so as to avoid having a rain delay upset its Sunday night network schedule for the folk bast east. But of course. They’re absolutely right. FOX is working in cahoots with NASCAR to control the weather. Mike Helton was seen Sunday evening doing a rain dance with Digger atop the big yellow trailer. NASCAR is of such power it controls the weather. Behold its mighty hand! Brian France, you magnificent bastard! Fear him and obey!
Seriously. The track was not going to be dry in time to get the race back underway before late into the evening. If you’ll recall the same scenario took place at the February Auto Club race, and trying to wait it out was a horrific mess. If television ratings were the sole consideration NASCAR would have postponed the conclusion of the race until the next night. What better drama than a fifty or so lap shootout in prime time? Also, a little agit for the everything is bent toward Dale Jr. conspiracy believers: you think NASCAR would skip an opportunity for him to win? Which despite his miserable day was still a possibility had the race run the full two hundred laps. Give it a rest, kids.
- Speaking of needing a rest, open note to Jay Busbee: you are a very, very good writer. But not ten times a day, which seems to be how often you post over at From The Marbles. I don’t know if Yahoo pays you by the word or what’s the deal, but you’d be far more effective not throwing every everything out there. Two straight posts on non-starters such as whether Danica Patrick had her back tattoos covered for her most recent SI swimsuit photo shoot? Come on. You’re better than that. Ease off the accelerator and start exercising some self-control.
- Speaking of what really needs a rest, in a move so predictable it makes Simon Cowell’s sarcasm seem spontaneous the self-appointed savior of all NASCAR media John Daly has crawled out from under his unemployment check to resurrect his exercise in third-person tongue bathing. Oh joy.
Daly’s alleged expertise in what he critiques with such pretentiousness one has to wonder whether the whole thing is an exercise in parody consists of his insistence he’s a thirty year veteran of broadcasting. Got proof? By the way, I’ve been a Christian for thirty-five years. Let me call Billy Graham and Pope Benedict so I can give them a few pointers on how they should live. Unless Daly’s beaten me to it.
What in the world is your problem? You have never emailed me to ask anything about my blog or my professional past in TV. I would be happy to answer any questions you might have at anytime. My email has been on the front page of my blog for the past two years.
I have never been unemployed, have never taken a dime from my blogging activities and continue to live a very normal life. Perhaps, remembering that you are a Christian before you type might help to temper your very strange personal attacks on someone who you do not know and have never contacted.
I have never responded to your many personal attacks, never asked why your last Internet project failed and have no idea who in the world you are. Swinging wildly at guys like Jay Busbee, Jayski and myself might make you feel better, but you really need to take a long look in the mirror.
Again, you can contact me directly by email at editor@thedalyplanet.tv anytime with any questions or comments you might have about my columns. Thanks.
As per The Dude: “….you think NASCAR would skip an opportunity for him [Jr.] to win?”
A point missed by the pointed head conspiracy nutcakes, if NASCAR or any of its officials were that far in the tank for Junior he never would have received a 1 lap penalty for pitting outside the box.
Ref the email, funny, he whines and complains about what he feels are personal attacks against him, yet he has no problem making a false charge concerning your “last Internet project [that] failed.” He must have a fly-on-the-wall under contract to know that.
Funny how that works.
BTW, out of curiosity I checked the TV ratings for The Great Flood at Fontana in ’08. 10 mil were tuned in to that debacle, a tic more than any of the cartoon sitcoms draw on Fox. With 16 mil watching Sunday you can bet 10 mil or more would have stuck around for a complete 500 if it had happened. When you factor i the demos of the race vs the sitcoms it makes the conspiracy a non-stater.
P.S. Here’s some more MSM lunacy, your average everyday “drivers aren’t athletes” crapsicle.
[...] than the esteemed John Daly paid a visit. What’s more, he deemed my humble site worthy of leaving words! Such an honor deserves the full frontpage treatment, n’est çe [...]
Hey man–thanks for the praise. As for the double-post–my bad. I had a much more salacious picture up there, decided it wouldn’t work, then the brilliant technical machinery that is the Yahoo! sports blogging engine wouldn’t delete the original post.
As for it being a non-starter–well, here’s the thing. Anything Dale Jr. or Tiger Woods or Danica Patrick or Kobe Bryant or Paris Hilton gets linked from the big page–and that means HUGE hits. That allows us to do the other, more sophisticated (or stupid) analysis. I know, it ticks off some longtime readers to read yet ANOTHER Dale or Danica story. I sympathize. Fortunately, though, we’re not like a newspaper–we’re not limited by space. We can do BOTH big stories and little spotlights.
And re. my frequency–that was mainly a function of Daytona. I won’t be blasting out that many every week, believe me. And I’ve passed your request on to my bosses!
Thanks, as always, for reading. Talk to you soon.
When you’re on, which is most of the time, you are one of the very best bar none.
As to needing material that cranks up the hits, it’s an unavoidable monster when you’re depending on traffic for revenue. I keep telling my boss who wants to know how we can amp up the new corporate blog, “Look, two words — Britney Spears.” No idea how I’d work her into a site on insurance, but there’s got to be some angle I can explore…
John Daly pathetically plays the Christian card. Very predictable!
hello? is it safe to stick my head in here?
Remind me – again – not to get on your bad side Jerry. (and thanks for the link, BTW)
Look, at least JD says that you can contact him anytime – I’ve tried a couple time and not gotten a reply. I have left respectful comments on several posts at the Planet. I link to his blog. Nothing. You must have pushed the right buttons.
And from someone who REALLY knows – there was no failure in Jerry’s leaving Restrictor Plate This. SBN DID NOT WANT HIM TO GO. I talked to the people involved. Daly, apparently did not.
And lay off Jay Bee. He’s among the best and that Yahoo gig has responsibilities that the rest of us don’t have to deal with, I’m thinking. Besides, the more he writes, the more we can steal.
Later Dude. keep pokin’ the bears.
Bad side? Me? Oh p’shaw. I’m a teddy bear. Or a polar bear.
Not to worry about JB. We’re tight. He is good, and I couldn’t do what he does if my life depended on it. Just can’t write stuff for the sake of hits like he has to as part of his job. I mean, look at what went down with me and SBN, and there was zero pressure there other than what I put on myself.
““Look, two words — Britney Spears.” No idea how I’d work her into a site on insurance, but there’s got to be some angle I can explore…”
What? You can’t use Spears’ numerous traffic accidents or times he’s run over a paparzzi’s foot?
You’re not thinking clearly Dude. Call me, I got People that can help.
sounds like Busbee is smokin your butts and y’all don’t like it. There is a reason FTM is the #1 Nascar blog and yours aint.
A blog’s success isn’t measured by site hits, but I wouldn’t expect you to comprehend such subtleties. If all we were after was traffic we’d post ten times a day and run as many photos of Danica plus driver’s wives and/or girlfriends as we could scrape up. It’s the formula for popularity.
It’s no knock against JB to say he has to do what he does. Yahoo lives and dies on its ad revenue. By its own numbers the company has some 13,600 employees. That’s a lot of paychecks to write. You’d better have some income to cover them.
Ad revenue is wholly dependent on traffic. It’s a tad difficult to charge much for ads no one’s reading. Therefore, you go for the lowest common denominator in order to reach the widest possible audience. Which since it includes you is obviously working quite well. Fortunately for Yahoo, JB is able to slip some quality amidst the dross.
He does his thing, I do mine, and I don’t mind he’s got the larger readership. That’s not my goal in life. Neither is it wasting any more time than I already have explaining this to class clowns with such witty e-mail addresses as “fsusucks.” With that in mind, thus ends this note.
Gator…
Did you not read the post above you from JB?
Good grief.
BTW Charlie ! Daly never answered or acknowledged me either…(crying…)
JB Rules! He give us lots to steal! What would we do without him?
No beef! No beef! Stand down, Marbleheads!
LOL!
So let me get this straight. This is a blog which criticizes and critiques other blogs??? And one of those you call out you do so for criticizing and critiquing TV coverage? Followed a link over here not knowing I’d be neck deep in hypocrisy. Don’t think I’ll bookmark this site. At least Daly’s blogs seem to have some effort in them. No need to go attacking others just because you can’t think of anything useful, or worth a persons time to read, to write about.
You got it crooked. Had you bothered to read more than one post you’d know better. Obviously you haven’t. Thanks for taking this special time to embarrass yourself in public.
I have been reading your blog for about 5 or 6 years now.
Just wanted to say that JD has absolutely not one clue about what he writes. Since I would rather read your blog than waste time writing to him, guess I won’t be crying in my beer when he doesn’t take time to respond back.
Love the stuff you write and no matter how many hits you may or may not need (think Yahoo ad revenue), there is always a group of us in PA. that will forever be loyal readers.
You bring an insight to NASCAR that not many can duplicate, but is always greatly appreciated. Thanks again for being one of the best!!!
Thank you very much for your kind words. I’ll do my best to warrant your continued readership.