Comments on: “We’re Close on a Sponsorship Deal.” Yeah, Sure You Are

By: Kasey

Kasey — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:26:05 +0000

UGH—I hate the teasing TC LOL

Which shipping company (UPS?) and who blew it?? Is that why TS was ill?

Let me guess the other one—MotorMouth Motorsports had a welcome party for SWH?

Good article BTW

By: Deborah

Deborah — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:12:41 +0000

GMs from MLB teams talk about potential trades or other moves all the time. However, there are restrictions on what they can openly discuss because they could be accused of tampering. Otherwise they’d probably be doing just as much talking as those in Nascar.

I agree with the first poster – what else are these teams supposed to do besides put the best face on things? In addition, JGR, Hendrick and every single team in the garage area engages in just as much “spin” as the teams cited above. JGR spoke about possibilities for the #20 before Logano was announced as the driver, Roush talked about being close to signing a sponsor for Ragan and acknowledged that they might get UPS, Rick Hendrick made the infamous “no room at the inn” comment about Junior (and then later made room at the inn), and there are many other examples. Teams/drivers/sponsors are approached by the media on a regular basis and they answer the questions that are posed to them. Sometimes teams are just “blowing smoke,” sometimes they are speaking about what might happen based on the information they have at the moment but things change, sometimes there are things they can’t talk about openly and sometimes they’re actually saying what really will happen. Like with Cal Wells who you don’t believe – he’s talked about the things they have in the works and said how they might form an alliance with another team and that’s exactly what was announced yesterday.

By: Michael-Massachusetts

Michael-Massachusetts — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:21:47 +0000

How about the other way around? A sponsor announcing a deal with a team!

“Wired Flyer” and those crooks Jones and Harkness come to mind.

By: Village Idiot Intern

Village Idiot Intern — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:42:40 +0000

I’ve been real close to a sponsorship deal every year for the last…oh, since about 1991…to run a full season in Late Models at Hickory. But never close enough to go buy a helmet or my Nomex or a car or a trailer or the scales, jack, jack stands. I have everything else including the desire…well you get my drift here, don’t you? I’m real close you hear, real close, and it may happen this winter…so be on the lookout for my PR guy and his press releases. They are at the printer’s office as we speak.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:17:34 +0000

It’s familiar and not really funny to hear Cal Wells saying we’re close to a deal or we have something in the works. Only because some of us heard that all before at PPI Motorsports right before Cal came back with nothing and shut the place down and sent everyone home. Team owners and managers have to say stuff like that to keep the people in the shop from leaving the first chance they get. If these people came out and said “well we got nothing” they wouldn’t have any employees.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:52:54 +0000

Rick, Rusty had officially denied that he is coming back to cup. It’s to bad, he was a great driver but the worst analyst in motorsports. I mean come on, how many times can a guy really say “he’s driving his brains out”?

By: SteveBtucAZ

SteveBtucAZ — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:37:53 +0000

The reason why these teams say this stuff is because of the 24 hour news cycle. There are so many media outlets trying to get some kind of news to report that even speculation and rumor becomes worthy of “news”. I’d bet if the media outlets would stop asking questions about future deals and future sponsors, that the teams would stop talking about them. Or am I wrong and Ty Norris and Cal Wells went looking for someone to talk to?

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:43:23 +0000

Which team lost UPS – FEDX and how about the new rumor that Rusty Wallace might come back to drive for DEI(TEI)?

I enjoy reading articles on this site…keep up the good work. This makes the sport alot more interesting.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:09:23 +0000

AMEN!!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:42:37 +0000

Dede: I’m not getting down on teams at all. I think if they really do have stuff in the works, great for them. What I don’t understand is coming out in the media and talking about “what might be.” I don’t expect them to come out and be negative though either. Just wait until something is certain.

You don’t see Hendrick or Gibbs people coming out and talking about potential deals. And you don’t hear GM’s from major sports teams coming out and talking about potential trades. And the reason you don’t, is because its pointless. None of it means anything until the deal is actually done.

And as an employee, I’d rather they were just honest with us. Don’t blow smoke up my a**.