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Kenseth17fan
04-09-2001, 05:36 AM
Heard him say Matt running into Mikie was uncalled for and that kind of stuff is not racing, but when Mikie runs into everthing on the track he was laughing about it.
Now I bring this up only because I've seen this from him in the past.
Television reporters or anaylist have no buisness showing biased comments towards individual drivers.
Other than that I like DW in the booth.

DJ42002
04-09-2001, 06:13 AM
I'll bet DW has used that phrase "uncalled for" more times than any announcer ever did already this early in the season! I laugh about it because I think he is joking actually...I mean consider that he is Darrell Waltrip! He has made probably more "uncalled for" moves than any of the guys out there. Certainly not in the last couple years but before that and in the prime of his racing days! I have always liked Darrell and coming into this season I expected that we would hear more about how Michael is doing on the track than we ever did. I would imagine that Dale Earnhardt even used it as a selling point to NAPA when he decided to put him in the car.

Kel

Rumor
04-09-2001, 08:28 AM
You think that was biased, wait til Benny and Bestwick take over the second half. :eek:

Some people said Ned was biased for DJ. There were times he was like that, but he also was quick to criticize him as well, like the time he threw his helmet at a car on the track after he got spun out. I think it was Hillin but I could be getting DJ and Bobby L. mixed up.

But the majority of the announcers are biased, or talk about certain drivers more than others. I realize they can't talk about all drivers, but they don't need to go on and on the same ones over and over again.

Bob Jenkins and Benny Parsons were the worst in my opinion about that.

Kenseth17fan
04-09-2001, 11:32 AM
I know alot of them are like that. I am not saying it wasn't Matt's fault running into Waltrip, but just thought it was funny that he was laughing when Mikie ran into someone.
I'm over it anyway because I know that DW thinks alot of Matt's driving ability, Calling him "one of the smartest drivers on the WC circuit"