Saturday, August 4th, 2007 3,320 views
So according to a That’s Racin article, Tony Stewart thinks ESPN has it out for him. After the whole beer thing and being a “bad role model”, I wouldn’t doubt it. Of course, Tony is the one that said “bullshit” but… where was the 5 or 10 second delay? Working down in Daytona with Fox for the 500, I know they have people who listen to every single driver, every interview to bleep something out in case someone says a “bad” word. One of my classmates that I went down there to work with was in charge of Jimmie Johnson’s In Direct radio feed. Where were ESPN’s people? What dirt are they digging up on Tony? I think that’s going a little bit far on his part, but still… Tony is NOT one of ESPN’s favorites and their not a favorite of his.
Then again, can Tony EVER do anything right to make people happy? Nope. Because he’s Tony Stewart and whatever he does, he gets criticized for it. TGOM over on AOL FanBlog is taking it a little too far with the 10 minute thing. However… ESPN and Tony are taking it too far too.
Can’t we just discuss why so many NASCAR drivers are throwing the “shocker” instead? (more…)
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Thursday, February 15th, 2007 250 views
So, the day started off like yesterday… we wake up, get dressed and head to the track. Well, it was a little different. We head downstairs to valet and I see Rutledge. We hug, talk, and we’re all on our way to the track. So we get to the track and when we start to pull in, the cop stops me, ask me about the handicapped thing handing from the mirror. I tell him it’s my mother’s and that it’s just hanging there, that we weren’t using it. He said to take it down and if I used it again I would go to jail.. so I take it down and pull forward to head to the media compound. He starts banging on the rental car… BANGING on it and runs up to me and ask where I’m going and I told him that I was going to the media compound and I show him my credentials and he says that if I pull any further that he would have me arrested. My response: “How do you expect me to leave? Move the 10 cars behind me?” So I pull in and pull out. We call the guy and he says to park in a space and pay and we would be reimbursed, so I do, and it’s 40 fucking bucks… yet I have to pay it… neither the other two act like they give a rats ass and I get so pissed off between that and the cop that I start crying. See, when I get mad, I want to hit and kick and throw things and I had nothing to do.
So we get to the media compound and we do what each of us did yesterday. I hang around the production, graphics haulers, and then I go up to the media booth with Jack. Watch Phil Parsons and that other guy talk about Truck practice and Michael Waltrip came in and talked… saw Rusty Wallace leave the ESPN booth and he smiled, saying hi. So Jack and I sit there until lunch and we head back to the compound to eat… and it was this shit I don’t eat so I head to the grandstands and buy a burger. So we eat and all of that and I get a call from one of the guys in the graphics truck to come there, so I do, and he tells me to fax a rundown to some numbers, then take some cue cards to the booth and then the Hollywood Hotel, ASAP… so I run back to the Featherlite hauler (the main one), and fax the rundowns, I get a cart and call Jack to come down and meet me to get the booth’s cue cards, and I haul ass over to the Hollywood Hotel…
Now that itself was a hell of an ordeal… I had to seriously move through race traffic on feet… they were introducing drivers and people were rushing to their seats and I’m trying to get to the tunnel to get to the hotel, without my jacket b/c I left it in the hauler and I’m FREEZING…. so I get there, almost running over one of Robby Gordon’s crew members by the way, and run inside, giving the cards to Jeff Hammond. From there, I head back, giving an ESPN guy a lift while talking about Tony and how I predicted him to win today…. (more…)
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I'm Karah-Leigh, a college senior who lives for celebrity gossip and fast cars. I'm a journalist in training and a major flirter that loves to design everything - from T-shirts to Web sites to magazine and newspaper covers. This is my personal blog where I will post ramblings about my so-called crazy, busy life and all things celebrity and NASCAR gossip.
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