Still cannot
believe that I unleashed a whopping 10-page Monstrosity upon Y'all last year;
YIKES! And although I'd decided to split
this winter's ramble into another Nofendersville two-part trilogy; Hooah! The
first half's draft weighed in at six
pages before I'd even scribbled down the REAL category winners, and
thus, it'll become a true trilogy now, making Y'all wait a 'lil longer for the
B-I-G Hitters, as Part 2's devoted to my ever growing media selections...
Media
This year I felt compelled to expand on where I
spend a humungous amount 'O time each day, commonly known as Zed Internetz, and
have added the following categories to my previous TV selection...
TV
While I thought that perhaps the TV broadcasts
would improve this year, Sigh... As my initial feelings were to give 'em A-L-L
D's!
Formula 1
Although I'm glad that I can still obtain F1
upon my overpriced comca$t cable TV service, I don't really have much good to
say 'bout the continued "Red Headed" Step-seester treatment the
product receives here in Americre.
As I've scribbled 'bout
"Peacock-lite" (NBCSN) telling us the results during an U$ Bank
Sports update repeatedly prior to the re-airing of said event! Or playing ring
around the rosy; Err Telie dial trying to find the broadcast that's been moved
in favour of Tour de Farce, Premiere Football, etc, not to mention the zany
re-air times being A-L-L over the map!
Nor by hyping thee SHIT outta the season
finale only to cut the OH DARK 30 (5AM Pacific) live Abu Dhabi qualifying
program 17mins SHORT! As I thought for
sure my TV Guide's listing of Qualie
running from 5-6:10AM was wrong? But NO! We've gotta switch over to
Smokey Smoke's Premiere League Pre-game prattle at 6:13AM, hence not only
chopping off the Driver's interviews but the program in whole; SHEISA! As this
isn't the first time this season either; Blah-blah-blah...
As the only thingy saving this is the
announcers: Leigh Diffey, (who I've been a Gynormous Fan of ever since discovering him on SPEED's Grand Am race coverage...( David
Hobbs and Steve Matchett. Whilst thy
'Wee Willie Buxom (Will Buxton) wanes 'N grows on Mwah in spurts...
Network: NBCSN
Grade: D
IndyCar
Can't really say a whole lot here, as the
only true shining star is the addition of Alan Bestwick as lead announcer,
while Eddie Cheever and Scott Goodyear have never impressed me, even if I have
NO idea how hard its talking to a camera! Yet my true disdain for the network
is their cavalier attitude towards we'd really just like only broadcasting the
Indy 500, while this year's "Enhanced" coverage which actually resulted in LESS TV coverage
overall, not to mention the vomit-inducing 2hrs Qualie' infomercial made me get
up 'N leave the show, which I scribbbled 'bout in;
The Tomaso Files: Crass Commercialism of Mechanized Machines vs. the
Wheels of Nature...
Network: ABC
Grade: C-
Although "Peacock-lite" is my
preferred television partner for IndyCar's, nonetheless they weren't without
their problemas too. As I really feel that
Steve "SCREAMER!" Matchett and 'Ol 'Hobbo (David Hobbs) DON'T
do anythingy for the broadcasts, as it just
feels like comca$t's being too CHEAP! As why not put "Professor
B" (Jon Beekhuis) in the booth instead, especially since he's got a pulse;
Hooah!
And
Will Buxton is ok on Pitlane, with Kelli Stavast seemingly
improving, as Kevin Lee does his usual steady job; while I'm looking forward to
Marty Snyder and Wally Dallenbach going off to 'RASSCAR... While Townsend Bell
is entertaining, with Mr. Chrome Horn, aka Paul Tracy being a pleasant surprise
and the most enjoyable part of the whole broadcast!
Network: NBCSN
Grade: C-
INTERNETZ'
"Tokyo Fly-by-Night Award"
New category this year, which sadly, if the
Sub-title doesn't clue Y'all in; this category is designated to the websites
who've gone A-L-L Flash-bang, swooshy, over-the-Moon graphically intensive and
most annoyingly, DON'T work worth SHIT! (Regarding being Screen-reader
compatible...)
motorsport.com
This is the second time they've completely
ruined the website, which I used to enjoy, but sadly cannot access I-T at all via my Zoomtext Screen-reader
affectionately known here in Nofendersville as Lucy. Thus, I don't bother
trying to read them at all anymore...
indycar.com
My biggest pet peeve with the website,
besides the homepage's 'Uber annoying "Tokyo Fly-by-Night"
over-the-top graphics! And the link to the Live Timing & Scoring seemingly
ALWAYS moving... Is the fact that they've once again GOOBERED the actual
link/button to the live radio broadcasts; FUCK!
Honorable Mentions'
RichardsF1
Although not quite as bad as motorsport.com,
nevertheless, Richards F1 has managed to FUCK UP their homepage, which now is
scrambled and NOT Screen-reader friendly anymore, although I can still puruse
the archive sections...
Motorsports - NBC Sports
My biggest pet peeve is this site, along with
many others on Zed Internetz forces 'Lucy (my screen reader) to spend copious
amounts 'O time reading thru all of the
sidebars plethora of other story links, which I DON'T care about! As I think it'd be nice if there was a
"Skip to Content," i.e.; Main Story tab/link I could select
instead...
Best Websites
And suppose if I'm
gonna RIP those on Al Gore's A-L-L Knowing invention; Hya! Then I should also
call out my favourite must reads also, right? While Y'all can leave a Comment
for your nominations for websites I may have overlooked...
F1) grandprix.com
Although its GMM Feed may be somewhat lacking
in brevity for true 'Ol School reporting, nevertheless, I enjoy the site since
it gives me a bunch 'O daily gossip & is screen reader friendly!
IndyCar) Racer.com
When the website's working, it's my Go-to
site for IndyCar, Sports Cars and
MotoGP, especially now since Motorsport.com is a totally unusable P.O.S!
Favorite Blog Sites'
The category's
title should say I-T all, with my short list candidates below...
F1)
Candidates: Will Buxton, Adam Cooper, Joe Saward.
Winner: Joe Saward
Almost always enjoy Grizled Journo' Joe
Saward's insights from behind the barb-wire F1 paddock catch fencing, although
we've disagreed on a few items over the years...
IndyCar)
Candidates: 15 Days in May, Oil Pressure, Pressdog, So Here's What I'm
thinking.
Winner: Oil Pressure
This one was pretty easy, since
unfortunately three-fourths of the
candidates have curtailed their posting verbiage significantly over the past
year; like where have A-L-L of the IndyCar Bloggers gone?
Thus, my obvious pick is thee OLD-est IndyCar
Blogger, the esteemed Geo. Phillips's Oil Pressure blog. As George posts three
times a week, is a Diehard IndyCar Aficionado,
life-long Tennessee Titans fan and proud Nashvillian, who although I've never
met in the flesh, consider him a friend...
