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I'm not blanketing everybody but I believe if someone out of our sport were to come in and get our seal of approval, it seems on a basic level... we would have to respect them. They would have to be championship caliber, badasses in their own craft and have a REAL history of watching the sport and riding.
Rutledge isn't really good at anything and lowkey arrogant/I just don't like his face. He's never loaded a bike in a truck, never taken a bike off a bike stand, never went to a dealer to buy parts. Even his post of his LS swapped Porsche just sounds like hes reading off a brochure. If you ask him any in depth questions he wouldn't know shit.
I was curious if DV was able to hear Rutledge under everyone talking...DV said "if he didn't know me before he knows me now" . At one point I thought I heard Rutledge being so butthurt he cried out "yeah well I don't know who you are either"
Anyways after that segment, if I was his boss he'd be getting the axe lol
as far as the argument for making the sport "more inclusive" for the casual fan - What are the metrics that measure how effective that fluff is???? I sure hope there's as much effort going into actually pulling in the "casual fan" as there is distinguishing between the green Kawi from the red Honda
But some of us are clearly too cool for him and our sport needs to only be core track rats. That's what I'm reading here. We've got the best ever on the broadcast and how much shit did so many moto bros still give RC for the first few years he was sharing the booth? Some people can't ever be pleased and they really like to tell people about it.
Look it or not, Rutledge was right when he said the core fans are going to watch the race no matter what. We don't need to cater to them. We need to cater to the people who don't know what's going on. Top Gear was successful because I watch it because I like cars and my girlfriend watches it with me because she likes the banter between the guys. You need to satisfy both sides.
I’ve laughed my ass off over plenty of the posts in here. Classic Vital.
Love it.
Comes off as a phony and disingenuous
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Pit Row
In the new culture of wokeness and acceptance of all things soft...
Please remember to always add,”Not that there’s anything wrong with that” to all of your Toxicity & Masculinity.
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The Vital PC Patrol
Nobody follows presenters and change their viewing to watch the new sport or show the presenter is working on. Rutledge will do nothing to bring new fans to the sport in his current role.
If they want more viewers get our sport they need to get kenny, webb, roczen on top gear and feature them to a new audience.
You will not attract new viewers by promoting your sport within your sport. You need to promote it outside of our sport in other motorsport programs.
God help us if Buttredge Wood is going to "help" our sport.
EDIT: He's done WONDERS for NASCAR.....lol
Indian Dunes wins this round.
He's not and he's got more than one platform to grab followers.
The downtime (during commercials) could be used for anything technical or not (Webb just changed his clutch lever, in the pits stuff, or on the track stuff).
And no, not Rutledge doing these segments. Could be Matthes or Weege, something like that.
As DV said, hard core fans (for the most part) signed up/pay for Peacock for the extra (RDL, all 17 rounds live, etc.). These commercial break live content segments could be gold for the subscriber base fans and NBC. In the limited time that there is for a live show and the rushed field reporter segments, something like this would work.. It's a win-win.. Satisfies both sides. Change my mind.
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