Someone once said, "I have the Midas touch -- everything I handle turns to mufflers." Maybe the same can be said of the Fox Network. The once interesting Speed Channel was acquired by Fox some years ago and, as a result, is now occupied by pundits taking about racing, fans talking about racing, and third-tier drivers (and that's being generous) talking about racing. Does anyone remember back when Speed Channel made regular stops at small tracks and actually showed us racing? What a revolutionary concept.
When Fox/Speed isn't blathering about a sport we'd really rather watch for ourselves, it provides us (endlessly it seems) some dimwit car customizer from "Nuh Joy-Zee" snapping at his employees and trying to "talk soul" with his customers. As a further alternate, the Fox approach to sport gives us "Pinks," hosted by the totally obnoxious Rich Christensen. The shows motto is "lose the race and you'll lose your ride." After watching a few episodes, I thought I'd just lose my lunch. I am a former crew member on a professional drag racing team, yet to my amazement, Speed and "Pinks" consistently for me reduces this form of racing to a boring fax of the original.
We get this crappy programming from Fox mostly because it's cheaper to produce than actual racing event coverage, it doesn't get rained out, and the motor sports audience has few alternative sources for programming, and settles for such junk.
If one looks at other Fox takeovers, they similarly feature the dumber, cheaper, more often philosophy. Their coverage of baseball? Don't get me started.
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