I agree. He is obviously less knowledgeable as well. I think this is a
concerted effort on Speed Channel's part to "dumb down" their coverage of
"them thar furrin" motorsports so the NASCAR bubba can understand them.
Look at the coverage of the first F1 race. Instead of Sam Posey's insightful
thoughtful prerace segment we got Formula 101. And who the hell is Rick
DeBruell? Did he just fall off the bubba mobile or what?
Regards,
Alan "gettin' as curmudgeonlike as Sipe :-)" Pozner
----- Original Message -----
From: <jac73@daimlerchrysler.com>
To: <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:15 PM
Subject: Speed Rally Coverage
> On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 18:38:44 -0600, "Charles R. Schultz"
> <n2pua4@peoplepc.com> wrote:
>
> >Plus, I hate to say this, the announcer this year speaks American, not
> >British.
>
> >I have enough trouble listening to TV with my minor hearing loss (50
> >years of loud music and loud cars and trucks) without having to decipher
> >accents other than New York, Buffalo, and NASCAR.
>
> I will have to respectfully disagree with this assessment. The WRC's
> British announcer (unnamed) was light-years better than Ralph "Caffeine"
> Sheheen, who makes the famously-excitable Murray Walker appear to be on
> Quaaludes by comparison. You may like screaming,
over-the-top-all-the-time
> announcing the way Ralph does it, but I found it decidedly jarring, even
> annoying. And I have to say that while more coverage is better, and I
like
> the one-hour-a-day shows a lot, I really, really wish for a second audio
> channel with the WRC-supplied announce feed so I can tune out Caffeine
> Sheheen.
>
> Jim Crider
> Live from Saltillo, Mexico(!!!)
> autojim@att.net
>
>
>
>
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