Bristol 2 bonehead

NBC!

For all I know, Byron's championship run could have been ended by an elephant that somehow managed to make it's way onto the track and get into Byron's way.
 
The gerbils. There were plenty of passing battles almost 1900, and that is a whole lot with as few of cautions/restarts there were, but we didn't see them

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Dillon is a solid choice. He shot for a gap that did not exist.

honestly if a few drivers saw this question, I think their answer would be Cole Custer. He was a moving barricade holding back several guys until they put bumpers to him.
 
Geesh, the race thread was mostly about the coverage and people whining about it. Kyle doesn't whine after a bad race as much as the people about their basically free tv coverage of every race. Damn....turnoff the volume if you can't deal with the announcers.

I'd like to see Kevin's pass again as I'd like to see if Kyle could have went below Joey or not. Seemed like he had that lane? If he did I'd say Kyle. If Joey was a pick then good Job Kevin.

Crazy clean race though...
 
I'll say Johnson, as he did another one of those "YOU NEED GLASSES" moves that took out a driver. But let me also echo the coverage around this particular aspect:

Calling races remotely using TV screens is idiotic, and trying to do it with 4 announcers who cannot see each other is moronic. First, why can't these guys go to the track and do their broadcast socially distanced from each other in the dedicated media facility? I think they do it remotely to "virtue signal". Heck even the goof ball was at the track in his "FACE-MASK". Ugh....

Years ago I was in broadcasting professionally and did sports play by play (not racing specifically). You see things developing on the field (or track) that TV monitors don't pick up. Broadcasters also communicate to each other by signaling, using facial expressions, to help manage the broadcast situation. It's an important component of a quality show. These guys are doing their best, but Saturday's Bristol race was messed up. Incidents happened and nobody could explain anything, because nobody was at the track who could provide context. As a result it was the worst broadcast of the year.
 
Ford 222 said:
Geesh, the race thread was mostly about the coverage and people whining about it. Kyle doesn't whine after a bad race as much as the people about their basically free tv coverage of every race. Damn....turnoff the volume if you can't deal with the announcers.
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It wasn't just the commentary booth. It's the mysterious Byron crash that there's no replay of at a half-mile track. The excessive graphics, everything happening either in a small box during "nonstop" or during commercials, the excessive graphics that added nothing to the broadcast, the leaderboard constantly moving from the top to the side, and so on.

It's as if NBC has no idea what direction they want to go with their coverage, so they just throw everything but the kitchen sink at the screen and see what sticks.
 
Conover said:
I'll say Johnson, as he did another one of those "YOU NEED GLASSES" moves that took out a driver. But let me also echo the coverage around this particular aspect:

Calling races remotely using TV screens is idiotic, and trying to do it with 4 announcers who cannot see each other is moronic. First, why can't these guys go to the track and do their broadcast socially distanced from each other in the dedicated media facility? I think they do it remotely to "virtue signal". Heck even the goof ball was at the track in his "FACE-MASK". Ugh....

Years ago I was in broadcasting professionally and did sports play by play (not racing specifically). You see things developing on the field (or track) that TV monitors don't pick up. Broadcasters also communicate to each other by signaling, using facial expressions, to help manage the broadcast situation. It's an important component of a quality show. These guys are doing their best, but Saturday's Bristol race was messed up. Incidents happened and nobody could explain anything, because nobody was at the track who could provide context. As a result it was the worst broadcast of the year.
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I think the remote commentary is a NASCAR thing. NBC sends its commentators to IndyCar races.

Nailed it with this post though. It's hard to call or cover a race if you aren't there, but Fox was already moving things in that direction before COVID. A LOT of sporting events are called remotely now.
 
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