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to talk about!
Did you see that the TV ratings are up? The race in Richmond
showed a 28% increase in viewership from last years telecast. Were this week’s
ratings up as well?
Did you see that the IRL Champion (Mr. Ashley Judd) is heading over to Nascar, to give some
fenders (and a real paycheck) a try?
How about the “Go-Carts on Crack League” adopting a
communist manifesto?
We saw all of this, and then some.
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and join the crew!
We’re gonna have CCR from Nascarblackflag.com
drop in to help us cover some of these topics, and we might even get the
rakishly handsome Jerry Boyd from NascarToday to give us
one of his patented exclusives!
And, I’ll finally be answering the listener questions from
our “Ask a Lugnut” series.
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We had so many entries to our contest, that we couldn't (wouldn't) pick the best one. So we narrowed it down to the top 5, and let our loyal listeners choose. It was a very tight competition, and we suspect Tez took full advantage of our lax voting rules. ( I guess stuffing the ballot happens in more places than just Illinois...)
With Tez's winning entry, "Luggles", he will be receiving a free "Lugnuts" t-shirt...... just as soon as we can figure out how to get one to New Zealand. I've contacted Barry Bonds.... and he's gonna stuff one in a mayonaise jar, and throw it in the San Fransisco bay.... so it should be there in a couple of years......
The Lugnuts crew would like to thank the rest of the top 5:
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Have you ever tried
to drive a nail to hang a picture, hit it that one last time, and made a big
dent in the wall?
Have you ever tried
to tighten a nut, only to break the bolt?
(Yeah, me too….) My dad used to call this “Over
fixing” it.
There are a lot of
people talking about the decline of Nascar. I’ve heard the ratings are falling,
the attendance is down, and the perception of “fairness” is a big problem. All
that may very well be true. But…. Aren’t the Nascar bigwigs already addressing
these situations? Let’s take a look…. Shall we….
The ratings: There’s probably a lot of ways to calculate
these, and I’m not sure they can really tell who’s watching, when, from where.
I’m not a big numbers guy, but I’ve seen reports that the overall ratings are
down 10%, but the younger demographics (males, age 18-34) are up 7%. Well,
isn’t that what Nascar was looking for? They’re giving us cartoon computer
simulations of the race. (Just like a video game) They’ve dressed the
reporters up in fire suits. (Are they afraid they’re gonna get into a wreck?)
And, they’re breaking away from the pre-show reports to give us a rock concert.
(Who is “Hinter”, and why should I care…) There also seems to be a lot
of commercials these days. Most companies will not put an ad, where no one will
see it. (You don’t see many billboards out in the swamps.) Maybe they
know something we don’t.
Attendance: Is
it down? Really? Compared to what? Last year? The last 5 years? Has anybody
taken into consideration, a lot of Nascar fans are dressed up in desert
camouflage, and are off fightin’ a war? Have you noticed that Kentucky Speedway
is suing Nascar to get a race there? Have you also noticed that the older
tracks are spending a lot of money to upgrade, so they can keep their races? Aren’t
they trying to build new tracks anywhere they can find 10 acres of dirt that
ain’t doing anything? Do you think all this is happening because nobody is
showing up? Me neither…
Fairness: The
COT project (It might be time for a name change.) was put into place for
two reasons. The first was to make the drivers a little safer. (I’m all for
that.) The second reason was to make the car more affordable to the smaller
teams. Now they only have to build one car, instead of two or three. (Different
ones for different tracks.) They also wrote a big list of convoluted rules,
to keep the teams with more technical expertise from tinkering with their cars.
They are also slapping fines and suspensions on anybody that even breathes on
the dang thing. (Don’t get me started on this. I’m old school on this
subject. I believe that innovation and imagination are the cornerstones of
stockcar racin’)
In the last few
years Nascar has made a lot of changes. They’ve added the “Chase to the
Championship”, and modified that into today’s “Chase version 2.0”. They’ve
added new sponsors, and car manufacturers. They’ve even revamped the car. Don’t
you think we should just stop, take a breath, and see how these changes affect
the sport? Shouldn’t we give this a season or two to see what happens? I
understand that change is necessary for growth, but we’re not even sure of what
we have now. A really smart guy once said… “If you don’t know where you are,
how would you know if you were lost?”
Let’s not “Over Fix” Nascar!!! We might break it beyond repair.
As always, that's my story..
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My goal is to live forever. So far...so good..
I play Rec. league softball, Poker and Golf. I watch MLB (Mets) NFL (Cowboys) and NASCAR (J. Gordon). I can't think in numbers, so STATS are meaningless to me.
Indecision may or may not be my problem...... .
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