There is just something about an active Sprint Cup Series owner calling Sprint Cup Series races for FOX that is just wrong. If you're curious as to why this is, just watch a replay of Sunday's race from Bristol.
From the time Brian Vickers took the lead until the time he and his two Michael Waltrip Racing teammates finished third, fourth and fifth in the race, MWR was all anyone was talking about. Michael Waltrip, the newest addition to the FOX broadcast team, was bombarded with comments and questions from his fellow "broadcasters" about his cars and how they were running and what he was thinking. It was absolutely nauseating.
They might as well bring in Richard Childress and Jack Roush as pit reporters. All fans got was one-sided, slanted commentary about three of the forty-three cars that were racing Sunday. Sportscasters are supposed to be impartial observers, calling the action how they see it. They are not supposed to be people with skin in the game, who will have a clear-cut agenda for how they want the race to turn out.
With the lack of wrecks and racing action, all fans heard about was how Vickers hadn't started a race since Homestead last year and he wasn't in the right physical shape for Bristol, how Truex finished third at Bristol's fall race last year and top-five at Homestead last season and how Bowyer wasn't even on the radar, but he made a bad car good and finished well.
Reigning champion Tony Stewart was also involved in a wreck in the closing laps.
So why is it that we hear from all three MWR drivers about their top-fives and we can't be bothered to ask the current champ for an interview about what happened in his incident? If he drove for Waltrip Racing, Smoke would have been the first interview after the race was over.
FOX needs to wake up and stop drinking the Waltrip "Kool-Aid" and put Jeff Hammond back in the "Hollywood Hotel" sooner than later. There are people who don't like Michael as a broadcaster and many more who just don't like him period. So if they don't pull him soon, then they will only continue to lose ratings and viewers.
So what's it gonna be FOX? An annoying hasbeen driver in your broadcasts or increasing viewership and ratings? It's up to you.
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