RC Has become really good

teggers
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Edited Date/Time 1/19/2021 7:17pm
I would love to be the fly on that wall.
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MikeJones
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1/19/2021 7:19pm
What’d you expect? He’s the GOAT
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TXDirt
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1/19/2021 7:35pm
He’s better paired with Diffy for sure.
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teggers
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1/19/2021 7:41pm
He has improved so much,,,,,
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#434
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1/19/2021 7:44pm
Like the champ he is: always trying to improve!
Yes, he’s much better. Quicker, more natural
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1/19/2021 7:52pm
We were saying the same thing tonight in my house. He’s gotten very good. 👍
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xrmark
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1/19/2021 7:53pm
He’s better for sure but god dam Ricky is having a hard time getting the first part of a sentence right tonight
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1/19/2021 7:54pm
Eh, idk about that but he’s definitely carrying the show tonight
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1/19/2021 8:01pm
Took the time to preperate.
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jambalaya
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1/19/2021 10:45pm
I noticed it last year when Diffy did a few races. RC can be good. Ralph dropped a lot of dead fish
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1/19/2021 10:49pm
jambalaya wrote:
I noticed it last year when Diffy did a few races. RC can be good. Ralph dropped a lot of dead fish
Yup. Ralph and Ricky had terrible rhythm, often stepping on each other, and leaving Ricky stumbling. Diffey and RC did well together last season.
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devotid
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1/20/2021 12:16am
I bet the stalker down voter is Ralph. haha.
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Mavetism
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1/20/2021 12:30am
Poetry in motion, looks like he's not even trying!
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davermz450
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1/20/2021 6:09am
He looks like he lost a lot of weight too. RC is back and killing it
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KAWI642
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1/20/2021 6:12am
Agreed. Told my wife last night that he's improved a TON
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Darrin Willis
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1/20/2021 6:27am
I thought he was awful.
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1/20/2021 6:29am Edited Date/Time 1/20/2021 6:31am
He's not bad and he's definitely improved a lot.

I do wish he'd do just a touch more on the technical side of what's happening like Malin, Langston and of course Bailey did - for instance about half way through the main with the whoop section breaking down and seeming to develop one line. I've only seen it once but it also looked to me like Ken was holding Cooper off primarily by tripling into the rhythm section from the inside (going 3-3-3 throughout), but then Cooper started doing it too and so (with being a touch faster everywhere else), that made the difference in ultimately being able to setup Ken in the latter stages.

That's the sort of thing I like the most, but again it's easy to say in retrospect and he does a good job overall. I'm sure he'll get better with time too.
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Howlan
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1/20/2021 6:38am
Practice makes you better, I think him being in much better shape (lost weight) has helped him too....
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1/20/2021 6:40am
I’m probably in the minority but I’m not a huge fan of RC on the mic.
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philG
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1/20/2021 7:17am
He is working with a great lead.
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gt80rider
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1/20/2021 7:20am
Diffy makes is a LOT easier for RC not to sound like an idiot.... with Ralph, it worked kinda the other way......
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p0wn
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1/20/2021 7:54am
I'm really tired of his tired old rhetoric. He often talks too long and doesn't talk about what's happening in the race. He always says shit that has zero meaning like "Well, he just needs to hit his marks now". Which means nothing.
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Roger@Arroyo
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1/20/2021 8:09am
He's better, but still not good and unfortunately never will be. His speech is "racetrack hillbilly", and that's never going to change, it may be arguably harder than Emig overcoming his stutter. It's not just knowing your material, it's also being able to relay it to the audience. It shouldn't matter if you're a fan of him or not when you choose if he sounds good in the booth.
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tingo
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1/20/2021 8:30am
-MAVERICK- wrote:
Took the time to preperate.
Fer sher. With more time in the booth, his comfortability has gone up.
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1/20/2021 8:35am
You have got to be kidding? He is horrible in the booth.
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BonglorD
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1/20/2021 9:32am
davermz450 wrote:
He looks like he lost a lot of weight too. RC is back and killing it
he puts serious time in on the bicycle in and around Tally.....
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1/20/2021 9:36am
My opinion:

RC can't make up his mind whether he is a color guy or a play by play guy. Sometimes he goes into play by play mode which is Leigh's job. So then Leigh has little to say. It sort of almost makes the case for the Paul Malin MXGP one-man solution, but it doesn't.

I don't think RC is there to explain what is happening. I think he is there to explain why it's happening and what it's like when it does/doesn't happen.
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1/20/2021 9:37am
He would be better if the video production team could get the broadcast properly executed. The 250 main was so porely covered.
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1/20/2021 10:05am
He really struggles to talk smoothly, quickly, and eloquently. He doesn’t have a very strong vocabulary. He really isn’t a good fit in that position. Emig was much better. Emig and Diffey would be amazing.

rc is MUCH better with Diffey than with Ralph but he still isn’t very good overall.

Diffey is night and day better than Ralph to me.
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08r1dilla
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1/20/2021 11:29am
I wouldn't say really good, and he was always one of my fav riders. Seemed like he was trying to justify the Forkner take out.
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1/20/2021 12:32pm
That's why Leigh is so good, he depends on his professional talent and let's them shine at the right time. It's also why Ralph was so terrible.

Now let's get Jeff back in there and it would be perfect.
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