Comments on: Random Thoughts On Toronto

By: meeshbeer

meeshbeer — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 01:58:38 +0000

“There are worse places to be in July than north of the border and their moderate temperatures.”

bwahahahahaha! it was hotter in Toronto last weekend than it was at Indy this year. Crazy stuff man.

I would be honoured to show you around my fair city should you and Susan toss T.O. on your schedule in the future

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 23:29:48 +0000

I hope no one takes offense to George’s comments about my mother. My mother is and always will be a character. She was a “gas passer” (anesthetist–trained at Johns Hopkins) and for many years in the labor and delivery rooms, she was a favorite of the doctors for her bawdy sense of humor. When she was a student nurse, legendary Jim Thorpe was one of her patients. Some of the things she still comes up with are pretty hilarious. She does not share my love of racing, unfortunately, and does have a tendency to stand in front of the TV when we are watching things she does not really get into (the look on her face is priceless). It is hard to see a parent become elderly and start losing their grip on I guess the only word is “reality.” I am fortunate that I have George to help out, we have to laugh sometimes, I am not ready for her to leave her home and little dog–we take the good with the bad. Personally, I think she has a mom-crush on George.

By: Oilpressure

Oilpressure — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 02:27:15 +0000

Nonsense! The marriage is going great! I knew what I was getting into with the MIL.

By: bent wickerbill

bent wickerbill — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:00:46 +0000

“Blown up sir”, is actually a line from the movie Stripes… It is spoken by Bill Murray when he is being questioned by the general on the parade grounds about who trained his
unit and what had become of their drill sergent…

By: billytheskink

billytheskink — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:19:01 +0000

Goodyear did mention that Conway punched Kimball into Bourdais, he just waited until right after Bourdais took potshots at Charlie in his interview. Why he waited, I don’t know.

By: JHall14

JHall14 — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:14:55 +0000

How Scott Goodyear could not see Conway hit Kimball in the RR is beyond me.They must have showed that replay 4 times, not once wasn it mentioned that Conway had hit Kimball. Hopefully Bourdais sees this with his stinging comments about the drivers on the podium.

By: Chris Lukens

Chris Lukens — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:07:39 +0000

I thought the ABC coverage was terrible. Scott”is this a golf match” Goodyear just drives me up a wall. Sometimes he is so determined to do his color commentary that he misses or just talks over the live action occurring on track right in front of him. Since this was the first race of the year with push to pass, I thought it was interesting that neither of the booth guys mentioned it once. Maybe they didn’t know about it .

By: billytheskink

billytheskink — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:21:55 +0000

I thought that was very cool as well. Though the ads were frequent, I didn’t think they were particularly intrusive. This kind of thing requires some serious broadcast sponsors willing to make it worth TNT’s while, no doubt.

As far as that broadcast went, I did find it weird that Coca-Cola debuted an entire Coke Zero ad campaign featuring Danica Patrick at a race that she was not racing in.

By: Simon Garfunkel

Simon Garfunkel — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 20:33:17 +0000

You are soooo right about Marco. Why would anyone take issue with you telling the truth? It’s a fact. He has regressed and is getting worse. He didn’t perform when they were going through tough times, but now that the team is doing well he’s doing worse. And to the comment about him being scared at Homestead…I’ll NEVER forget that. I almost fell out of my seat.

By: Chris Brown

Chris Brown — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 20:22:56 +0000

Don’t forget that Toronto in it’s CART days was a well attended event, and Toronto always showed well then too.