Scene: IROC race at TMS, Friday night, 35 or 40 laps into the race.
Background: Listening to race broadcast (and wondering why the #1 Team of
Joy, McReynolds, and Hammond) are doing this race for Speed.
Race Action: Not much. 11 cars in single file with about a second between
each car. Early action had Kurt Busch take Matt Kenseth out when Kurt
bounced off the wall. Sometimes, it’s the innocent that suffer. Kurt’s car
was OK to continue, Matt’s was not.
Booth Chatter (during commercial): Mike: I’ve already worked all the
puzzles, does anybody have any cards? Larry: Well, I’ve already told 40
minutes worth of stories. I’m all storied out. Mike: They should have put
the roof spoilers on the cars so they could race together. They just can’t
suck up to the car in front.
Rejoin the race broadcast after commercial: Wow, what an exciting race!!!
You just know that Harvick is saving something for the end. We’re going to
have a shootout of a finish.
Lesson: It’s all about the show and it’s the broadcaster’s job to make it
interesting sometimes when the racing ain’t that interesting.
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 07:58:40 CST, "Tommy Wood" <tgw…@nospam.com>
wrote:
> … Booth Chatter (during commercial): Mike: I’ve already worked all the
>puzzles, does anybody have any cards? Larry: Well, I’ve already told 40
>minutes worth of stories. I’m all storied out. Mike: They should have put
>the roof spoilers on the cars so they could race together. They just can’t
>suck up to the car in front.
LOL! Thanks for sharing the back-channel stuff.
Were you at the race? Nearby? Got more scanner bites?
Working on a UCAP ("up close and personal" account of
the races you attend)?
>Rejoin the race broadcast after commercial: Wow, what an exciting race!!!
>You just know that Harvick is saving something for the end. We’re going to
>have a shootout of a finish.
>Lesson: It’s all about the show and it’s the broadcaster’s job to make it
>interesting sometimes when the racing ain’t that interesting.
Agreed.
The announcers make a world of difference to people like me.
Some people may be able to turn the sound down and figure
things out for themselves. I can’t. I need the storytelling both
to follow the race and to get to know–and care about–the
drivers.
Marty
> Were you at the race? Nearby? Got more scanner bites?
> Working on a UCAP ("up close and personal" account of
> the races you attend)?
Yes, Marty, I went to the IROC race, and Thursday and Friday BGN and Cup
qualifying. But, I feel so unworthy of posting a UCAP. How could I come
close to Cindy’s UCAPs of Texas?
Of course, I have dial-up, so her web page takes 1/2 a day to download, but
very well worth it.
Grrr. Wish I could get broadband. Gosh, I got off-topic again.
If I can think of some interesting scanner bytes or something else, I’ll put
a UCAP together. But, so far, the story about the "ho-hum, let’s play
cards" comment was the only one noteworthy.
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 19:32:06 CST, "Tommy Wood" <tgw…@nospam.com>
wrote:
>Yes, Marty, I went to the IROC race, and Thursday and Friday BGN and Cup
>qualifying. But, I feel so unworthy of posting a UCAP. How could I come
>close to Cindy’s UCAPs of Texas?
You don’t have to come close.
Something is better than nothing. :o)
>Grrr. Wish I could get broadband. Gosh, I got off-topic again.
Thread drift happens.
>If I can think of some interesting scanner bytes or something else, I’ll put
>a UCAP together. But, so far, the story about the "ho-hum, let’s play
>cards" comment was the only one noteworthy.
Yes, it was very noteworthy. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Marty
I remember about 3 years back when the race was rained out and they raced
that monday the fox radio chatter was very entertaining.
"Martin X. Moleski, SJ" <mole…@canisius.edu> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 07:58:40 CST, "Tommy Wood" <tgw…@nospam.com>
> wrote:
> > … Booth Chatter (during commercial): Mike: I’ve already worked all
the
> >puzzles, does anybody have any cards? Larry: Well, I’ve already told 40
> >minutes worth of stories. I’m all storied out. Mike: They should have
put
> >the roof spoilers on the cars so they could race together. They just
can’t
> >suck up to the car in front.
> LOL! Thanks for sharing the back-channel stuff.
> Were you at the race? Nearby? Got more scanner bites?
> Working on a UCAP ("up close and personal" account of
> the races you attend)?
> >Rejoin the race broadcast after commercial: Wow, what an exciting
race!!!
> >You just know that Harvick is saving something for the end. We’re going
to
> >have a shootout of a finish.
> >Lesson: It’s all about the show and it’s the broadcaster’s job to make
it
> >interesting sometimes when the racing ain’t that interesting.
> Agreed.
> The announcers make a world of difference to people like me.
> Some people may be able to turn the sound down and figure
> things out for themselves. I can’t. I need the storytelling both
> to follow the race and to get to know–and care about–the
> drivers.
> Marty