NASCAR Cannot Save You

TV by the Numbers has yesterday's ratings up and when I set the over/under at 6.5 million people I was almost dead on.  NASCAR ran long, so Zombie Simpsons couldn't crawl out of the dirt until after eight thirty.  At that time "Post Race/Simpsons" drew 6.713 million people, at 9:00 "Simpsons/King of the Hill" declined to 6.316.  That averages out to just over 6.5 million, but either number is hearteningly low, especially considering that NASCAR is a strong lead in, with 12.5 million people watching at 8:00pm.  Zombie Simpsons hasn't cracked 7 million people since November and the ratings are down about a million people from where they were at a similar time last year.  Excellent.