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How about adding one more crawl at the top or the bottom of the screen. There are occasions when they are actually showing the race that you can still see it. I figure another crawl would block it out entirely and then it won't matter that the coverage stinks. Rusty needs to go. I don't need a psychic to keep me informed about the obvious.

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I AGREE THAT BRAD DAUGHERTY AND THE OBLIGATORY FEMALE ARE BETTER SUITED TO ANOTHER PROGRAM-LAUGH IN COMES TO MIND. I DON'T LIKE FOOTBALL COMMENTARY WHEN I'M TRYING TO WATCH NASCAR IETHER.

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NASCAR, please just give the whole season's TV contract to FOX. Even CBS...I think I remember that they weren't too bad. But seriously, the peacock network and the stupid disney channels are making you look like morons.

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I AGREE. RUSTY SUCKS AT THIS JOB AND THEY SHOULD REPLACE HIM WITH DJ IF HE'LL EVER RETIRE. BUT I WOULD MUCH RATHER HEAR DW-BOOGITY BOOGITY BOOGITY AND LARRY MAC AND MIKE JOY. I THINK THEY BRING A WHOLE LOT OF KNOWLEDGE TO THE BROADCAST AND MAKE IT MORE FUN FOR THE FANS TO WATCH AND THE WHOLE FOX TEAM DOES A GREAT JOB COVERING THE RACE.

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I thought benny parsons was dull, but rusty wallace ego gets in the way of the race. give me facts about the race and less pc. i hope when tony stewart retires he will find his way to a job covering nascar.

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At least with NBC, you could mute the announcers and turn on MRN radio. But with "ESPN on ABC", you can't even salvage that much of a good race watching experience between almost constant NFL updates and other nonsense while the race is still going.

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The coverage SUCKS BIG TIME. Rusty needs to go and hurry up/ Bring back FOX and Darrell.

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My husband and I were saying the same thing as we watched the race yesterday.
They have one of the better announcers on pit road,
Alan Bestwick. Put him in the booth.

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You don't see any mention of racing action on any other sports' broadcasts. Why do they do that during a NASCAR race (and even during an NHRA event). Fox and Speed does an awesome job of broadcasting and the announcers are informative, fun and know what they are talking about. I think they have "dumbed down" the broadcasts for "newbies" but the people who are real race fans get bored with all the nonsense talking.

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About the only thing (the one and only thing) that ESPN/ABC has done that's cool and different is the restart spotter chatter. But that's it. (And partially it's cool because it shuts Rusty up.)

I admit to liking Brad Daugherty, but that's because he admits to not knowing things, whereas the others are happy to be idiots.

Quite frankly, someone needs to find a way to fire that group and bring in John Roberts, Steve Byrnes, Dave Despain, or any guy from MRN to be the talking heads. Those guys have a clue AND don't pander to the random person flipping channels who hasn't a clue what's going on.

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I had high hopes for espn being that thier coverage of other sports is immpressive. On the nascar front they dropped the ball. Rusty just dosent have the personality, Brad is a prior team owner who's insight leaves much to be desired, an the chick is the equivilent of a bobble head doll repeating everything she hears. Bottom line, its awful. I hope nascar is getting a big enough check to put its die hard fans through a 4 hour race with horrible camera work and i swear if i see one more update of another sport, you dont see them cutting into a football game to show race highlights. espn sucks at nascar, let them stick to what they know best, cheesy highlight gags, and score rundowns..

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Why don't you show more of the race leader's and less of Junior running in 32nd place two laps down, you would think that Junior is the only person who can drive a race car, listing to the BS announcer's on tv.

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First of all THANK YOU for finally covering this issue. I bring it up in this blog all the time. Kolber knows ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about NASCAR. All her little 'colorful comments' are completely scripted. She has to read them from a script. WHY IS SHE THERE? The whole entire crew, says the exact same things every week. Like when they come back from the technical center...they say: 'Great explanation!' These guys have NO clue. Denny Hamlin was sick during the Busch race but the reporters mentioned several times that he said himself he was feeling great on Sunday. Of course one of the announcers commented about Denny and Kyle Petty and that poor Denny was sick...Its all of these stupid little ignorant things that they say that just shows how little they really pay attention to the race. They only say what is fed to them.

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Could they possibly put someone in the booth who can pronounce the drivers' names correctly? Rusty repeatedly talks about Matt "Kensis", Brad "Kezalauski" and A.J. "Owlmindinger." Krista Voda may know what she's talking about, but she doesn't know when to shut up. She was the announcer on Carl's DirecTV hot pass yesterday and we barely heard him because she was always rattling on about one thing or another. Krista, we tune in to hear Carl talk to his team, not to listen to you!

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OMG, thank you tallglassofmilk, I have a new family here. FOX has been the best ever !! But to the one who said CBS was good too. Maybe if the Tarheels aren't coming on after the race, because CBS HAS CUT THE RACE OFF, TOLD YOU TO TURN TO ESPN and started the Basketball game on time. And as for Rusty I had rather listen to Kenny anyday. But that's just me.

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Do what I do. Mute the TV and listen to the Radio broadcast on Trackpass. MRN always does a stellar job!!

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I wished someone would send all these comments to NASCAR, and go back to using Fox or the Speed channel. Give me back Jeff Hammond, Darrell Waltrip and Larry McReynolds, they know what there talking about. The commentators for ESPN and ABC all need to be fired. ESPN's and ABC's cameramen do a lousy job on the action. And I'm really getting tired of seeing there reader board of all the scores from all of the other sports thats going on. Who cares.

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I really have to weigh in on this one again..Many times I have commented that before they do anything they need to get rid of Rusty Wallace. He is NOT commentary material ever. I do like Brad as a person but I don't feel he is all that informed either. And the gal really does not know Nascar. The FOX guys and the SPEED crew are just the best as they keep you right in the race thru the whole thing. Their cut away car is also much more informative in a way we can understand. Wendy Venturini(sp) is awesome. Kyle Petty is even good. I just can not listen to Rusty so as much as I love my racing I mute the tv and turn the smaller tv on with the football game. Keep FOX and SPEED for all races PLEASE nascar.

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OMG..Thank you tallglassofmilk for bring this "Issue" up. FOX all season long, please. To the person who said CBS was good too. NO ! I remember the Tarheels were coming on, CBS cut the race off, sent a message to the bottom of the screen to go to ESPN, and that was that. The basketball fans didn't miss a bounce. As for Rusty, I had rather hear Kenny. But that's just me. GET WELL WISHES GOING OUT TO JOHN FORCE BUT MORE SO TO ALL THE "GIRLS" HAVING TO TAKE CARE OF HIM.

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