The Announcers Thread

HoneyBadger said:
Leigh [Diffey] is the best in the world. We are incredibly lucky to have him calling NASCAR races on USA.
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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.
 
Graphics are much better on Fox than previous years. They should use the same ones for their NFL coverage.

Harvick had a bit of a rough day, having trouble getting his point out several times. Bowyer does his own thing. Fox's pit reporters are useless. Fox is terrible at giving updates on drivers that have mechanical issues ore involved in a wreck. They never said how Larson ended up with no right fender. One positive is they were on top of the mileage game from the start.
 
"NASCAR on NBC" is officially dead.

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LOL.

NASCAR on USA's Facebook page is still titled NASCAR on NBC.

NASCAR on USA's Twitter handle is still @NASCARonNBC.

Pretty much on par with how the same company's relaunch of MS NOW went.
 
HoneyBadger said:
It will be interesting what Cup ratings are.

The 500 was up against the Olympics (which has drawn over 20 million viewers every single day of competition) and the NBA All Star Game on NBC.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if it vaulted back around 10M. Feels like there were generally good vibes and momentum coming in and not having any weather or delays for a change should be a big boost.
 
FLRacingFan said:
I wouldn’t be surprised if it vaulted back around 10M. Feels like there were generally good vibes and momentum coming in and not having any weather or delays for a change should be a big boost.
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I hope so.

I think NASCAR missed an opportunity not having the 500 rotate between FOX and NBC. Imagine if the 500 was on NBC alongside the Olympics this weekend.
 
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