Excellent article about negativity on social media

[Clayton_Wetter]

Tracks won't have the money to improve if negative posts on FB are making sponsors think twice about working with them. At that point the drivers are shooting themselves in the foot because money that goes to the track ultimately trickles down to the drivers in some way.

Thanks,
Jeff.

Should the positives only be allowed??? hahahahhaa

[PennDirt]

I'm a loyal listener of Jeremy's podcast and I also get his notifications on FB so he's pretty much my central Pa. go-to guy. I think Jeremy does a consistent job of right-down-the-middle racing journalism. Since he has addressed this several times in his podcast and usually foreshadows his upcoming articles, I was mildly interested in seeing if he would add anything from the opposing side like, let's say, the Path Valley/AMS Twitter/Facebook debacle of 2015. I was hoping his research would give a show that the pendulum swings in both directions but in his latest podcast, he was more concentrated on Danny Dietrich's dust-up than absolute 50/50 journalism. When an ace posse member makes some noise and a track that didn't make the cut for the Pa. Sprint Speedweeks so they schedule a 410 special the night before Speedweeks, there's enough saber-rattling to finally write a story.

I didn't find Double-D's tweets necessarily out of line. Perhaps a bit salty and even borderline paranoid but the driver was having a little fun with it, too. So were his fans. In reality, DD will probably never be in the position where a track bans him over opinion and I think he himself and the tracks both don't want this.

If there's two certain constants in the modern day, expanding dirtiverse, it's that social media kills tracks and we now have 82 crown jewel races. Nothing else matters.

[BTExpress]

Personally, I think Dietrich took it a little too far this time. He is having a frustrating season and went a little over the edge last week. That being said, he has been good for the sport creating INTEREST in sprint car racing in Central Pennsylvania with his social media presence including the Posse vs Outlaws banter over the last few years. In my opinion, Jeremy is a very fair and knowledgeable Motorsports writer who usually gives an unbiased account of both sides of arguments.....he is good for the sport.