The Announcers Thread

Leigh [Diffey] is the best in the world. We are incredibly lucky to have him calling NASCAR races on USA.
This opinion-stated-as-fact reminds me of the old saying... "One man's trash is another man's treasure."

My opinion is that Leigh Diffey is absolute trash as a racing play-by-play announcer. Any kind, and every kind of race... my opinion is the same. I've seen him butcher the call in Nascar, Indycar, IMSA, Supercross and Motocross, and each is worse than the one before. Manufacturing fake excitement when none is warranted. Extreme diarrhea of the mouth... the guy just won't shut up. He has this annoying speaking style of squeezing two or three of his extraneous cue card background facts into the same sentences he uses to call the action. The result is truly cringe-worthy IMO.

Diffey has a reasonable base of racing knowledge, and that is a credit to the guy, but he's not an insider to any of the series he calls. Thus, he misses the nuances that inform Mike Joy's work. He tries to make up for that by spouting three times as many words... again missing the nuance that Mike Joy's brevity is an asset. That's my opinion and it's reasonably well educated on the topic. I'll thank you to label your opinions as such every now and again.
 
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