Rutledge Wood

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toroP wrote:
They would get SX money, not NFL money.
Not to state the obvious, but SX and NFL are in two different universes.
Less dirt in the stadiums, smaller trophies, major sponsors dropping out. (Geico, JGR). Sounds like they cut Holley this year due to budget. The sport is shrinking...money is bleeding out.

Again...I'd love to see a round table of legend analysts....but the reality is, at this point of our sport, they would all have to do it for gratis or peanuts...

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As I came over that jump my throttle stuck and I almost made a Rutledge in my pants.
I dropped Rutledge off at the pool this morning....
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3/20/2021 9:12am Edited Date/Time 3/20/2021 9:14am
the guy came across as a condescending prick on Pulp... i’ve said it for years, this is a niche sport and will only grow to the size of the core fan base that rides or rode in the past. No one will casually come across it on NBCsports and say let me check this out, cool, i’m going to buy a bike and race/ride.... how many of your non riding friends will come over and watch SX/MX or come to the race even if you pay!?

DV was right, we all know about the rules, flags, and restarts. Show the damn racing! every broadcast they are yapping about nonsense and the crowd erupts and never show what happened and then all of a sudden the leader is on the ground or a crucial pass was made and they don’t show it in replay ... show the damn Race!!!!
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3/20/2021 9:47am
bvm111 wrote:
the guy came across as a condescending prick on Pulp... i’ve said it for years, this is a niche sport and will only grow to the...
the guy came across as a condescending prick on Pulp... i’ve said it for years, this is a niche sport and will only grow to the size of the core fan base that rides or rode in the past. No one will casually come across it on NBCsports and say let me check this out, cool, i’m going to buy a bike and race/ride.... how many of your non riding friends will come over and watch SX/MX or come to the race even if you pay!?

DV was right, we all know about the rules, flags, and restarts. Show the damn racing! every broadcast they are yapping about nonsense and the crowd erupts and never show what happened and then all of a sudden the leader is on the ground or a crucial pass was made and they don’t show it in replay ... show the damn Race!!!!
They don’t want to “show the race” they want to show the “show”.

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3/20/2021 11:09am Edited Date/Time 3/20/2021 11:10am
Hey guys, Arlington 3 practice is starting. Can we all start bitching now about everything that happens on race day live or should we wait until the night show and bitch about everything the announcers are talking about in one fair swoop? I’m not sure when my complaining should begin.......
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mxbigd17 wrote:
Hey guys, Arlington 3 practice is starting. Can we all start bitching now about everything that happens on race day live or should we wait until...
Hey guys, Arlington 3 practice is starting. Can we all start bitching now about everything that happens on race day live or should we wait until the night show and bitch about everything the announcers are talking about in one fair swoop? I’m not sure when my complaining should begin.......
Save that question for Atlanta. Laughing
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Vuillemin was incredibly on point. His distinction between core and wannabe is instinctual, and that's why his disdain was unmistakeable. It's not surprising the gumflapping hipster didn't appreciate what was said to him, because he doesn't and never will understand moto.

The irony of the hipster douche arguing with moto over the very meaning of moto is priceless..
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mxbigd17 wrote:
Hey guys, Arlington 3 practice is starting. Can we all start bitching now about everything that happens on race day live or should we wait until...
Hey guys, Arlington 3 practice is starting. Can we all start bitching now about everything that happens on race day live or should we wait until the night show and bitch about everything the announcers are talking about in one fair swoop? I’m not sure when my complaining should begin.......
Ted722 wrote:
Save that question for Atlanta. Laughing
I forgot numb skull said he was going to Atlanta.
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3/20/2021 12:09pm Edited Date/Time 3/20/2021 12:14pm
Ok listened to pulp. Is Rutledge the Rockzen of announcing. Coops not in my head..... the fans aren’t in my head

That was the most painful 10 min of pulp ever recorded


Davi owned Rutledge
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3/20/2021 12:10pm
toroP wrote:
They would get SX money, not NFL money.
Not to state the obvious, but SX and NFL are in two different universes.
Less dirt in the stadiums, smaller trophies, major sponsors dropping out. (Geico, JGR). Sounds like they cut Holley this year due to budget. The sport is...
Less dirt in the stadiums, smaller trophies, major sponsors dropping out. (Geico, JGR). Sounds like they cut Holley this year due to budget. The sport is shrinking...money is bleeding out.

Again...I'd love to see a round table of legend analysts....but the reality is, at this point of our sport, they would all have to do it for gratis or peanuts...

Weege, Jt$ and Matthes are already at the track anyway. They all have like seven jobs as it is. They could bench race on camera for a few thousand bucks and we'd get a better product. I dont know how TV works but I bet a deal could be made to do this.
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3/20/2021 12:42pm
Neither JT$ or Matthes are paid by Feld to be at the races
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3/20/2021 12:52pm
EngIceDave wrote:
Neither JT$ or Matthes are paid by Feld to be at the races
NBC was paying Matthes occasionally weren’t they?
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No idea

You also have to assume they have time and want to do it.

Being on air like that takes time and prep.
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3/20/2021 1:00pm Edited Date/Time 3/20/2021 2:15pm
But they have money for Rutledge that has done nothing for this sport, but not for some serius legends from this sport ?
It's all about the money, or potential money (eyeballs for advertiser sales) you can bring to the table.
That requires two things. Content (the race/pro commentary/teams/mfg.) and access to watchers (distribution)
Rutledge is completely mis-cast for Supercross, but maybe this is NBC/Feld's attempt to be creative to
bring money in. What if advertisers will pay $0.50 for every watcher of the broadcast and Rutledge brings
his 500,000+ social media followers to the program. NBC/Feld just upped their income by a quarter million dollars.
That only works because he is an outsider, as are his followers, so it's all potential upside.
He's annoying and a bad fit but if it was about advertiser dollars, can see the angle, but don't like it.
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3/20/2021 1:47pm
Wood is a company man, towing the line of the producers that hired him. What Wood does not understand is that those producers do not know what they are doing. Wood's "DV you might be wrong...you have never run a network" comment was cringeworthy. DV has been in the sport for 20 years. He had $5M in the bank because he was in the sport at its height in popularity and viewership. For 15 years DV has watched the sport get smaller and smaller along with the money involved shrinking. Sorry Wood, your bosses are doing the same thing they have been doing for 15 years. That is what YOU do not know. It has not worked so far, and it is not going to work with Wood as their latest attempt to create mainstream crossover. Matthes and DV were right about growing the base. Cross over fans are NOT going to happen with a pay per view structure.
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3/20/2021 3:37pm
EngIceDave wrote:
No idea

You also have to assume they have time and want to do it.

Being on air like that takes time and prep.
Time and prep? The current crew fooled me on that one.
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3/20/2021 3:46pm
Happy to report that Rutledge is out tonight. Didn’t qualify. Never will. Our sport does NOT deserve a POS like this. Send him back to NASCAR. Or Monster Trucks. Anywhere but our beloved sport.
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No offense but if I was Rutledge I'd take Vital having a 15 page thread on me as a badge of honor lol.
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3/20/2021 4:13pm
Rupert X wrote:
Happy to report that Rutledge is out tonight. Didn’t qualify. Never will. Our sport does NOT deserve a POS like this. Send him back to NASCAR...
Happy to report that Rutledge is out tonight. Didn’t qualify. Never will. Our sport does NOT deserve a POS like this. Send him back to NASCAR. Or Monster Trucks. Anywhere but our beloved sport.
One can only hope that the guy with the 'Do it for Dale' # 3 shaved into the hair on his back, takes exception to his mouth and teaches him some manners.
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daemon616 wrote:
No offense but if I was Rutledge I'd take Vital having a 15 page thread on me as a badge of honor lol.
There's another reason to hate the prick... a decent human being would look at the outrage aimed at them and re-evaluate how they've conducted themselves.

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3/20/2021 4:32pm Edited Date/Time 3/20/2021 4:34pm
Crossover? How many of you are now NASCAR fans because of Ruttledge and NBC? I'm not. I never watched RC race his truck, not once, or Pastrana either. I don't watch car racing, period. Not knocking it if it's your thing, but it ain't mine. Matthes and Blair were making this crossover point on one of the many PULP MX family of podcasts. That Ruttledge is a nice guy, a good dude, and NBC is really promoting the crossover for all their motorsports, I don't care.I just wanna watch the motocross stuff.

Do you ever wonder, just how many advertising dollars are available in the world. Seems every website, every network, every sport, every radio station, everyone needs ad revenue to exist. Maybe there just isn't enough ad money to go around. Maybe these entities need to figure out a new method to monetize.

Anytime you hear the words, grow the sport, it's from someone who stands to gain from it financially.
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3/20/2021 4:45pm Edited Date/Time 3/20/2021 4:46pm
Here's something to think about when it comes to MX and popularity. There are kids, children, who are making six figures a month with youtube/insta/tiktok channels

How come no one in this super gnar extreme sport can do the same?

Kids/teens/young adults are millionaires off social media, but not one "star" of our sport (or their handlers) can accomplish that, even with head start in mx.


Show's that it's like DV says, this is and will be a core sport, it won't be NASCAR.

That also means we viewers might want to consider being a little more grateful or we can be outside looking in while they show more Pro Cornhole

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3/20/2021 4:46pm Edited Date/Time 3/20/2021 4:47pm
EngIceDave wrote:
Neither JT$ or Matthes are paid by Feld to be at the races
True, but those three are already in the stadium nearly every week. Feld wouldn't have to pay their travel or per diem. Just a fee for 15 minutes or so of airtime. Again, I don't know how TV works but I've been in business for a long time. Deals can be worked out if there is a need and a solution. I'm just like you, I only want a better product and this suggestion makes sense to me.
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EngIceDave wrote:
Neither JT$ or Matthes are paid by Feld to be at the races
True, but those three are already in the stadium nearly every week. Feld wouldn't have to pay their travel or per diem. Just a fee for...
True, but those three are already in the stadium nearly every week. Feld wouldn't have to pay their travel or per diem. Just a fee for 15 minutes or so of airtime. Again, I don't know how TV works but I've been in business for a long time. Deals can be worked out if there is a need and a solution. I'm just like you, I only want a better product and this suggestion makes sense to me.
Understood and I have no idea how you get who to pay what when you're wearing ten hats.
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3/20/2021 4:53pm
EngIceDave wrote:
Neither JT$ or Matthes are paid by Feld to be at the races
True, but those three are already in the stadium nearly every week. Feld wouldn't have to pay their travel or per diem. Just a fee for...
True, but those three are already in the stadium nearly every week. Feld wouldn't have to pay their travel or per diem. Just a fee for 15 minutes or so of airtime. Again, I don't know how TV works but I've been in business for a long time. Deals can be worked out if there is a need and a solution. I'm just like you, I only want a better product and this suggestion makes sense to me.
EngIceDave wrote:
Understood and I have no idea how you get who to pay what when you're wearing ten hats.
Same here, brother. It's a puzzle. I just think it would be cool to have some real in-depth analysis of the racing in the second hour of the program instead of all this fluff.
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3/20/2021 8:12pm
No chance he even watched tonight’s race.
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3/20/2021 9:47pm Edited Date/Time 3/20/2021 9:51pm
As someone who raced motocross many years, watched it/kept up with it all my life, who knows a lot about the sport and the riders past as well as present, i find Rutledge Wood to be of no use to me or the sport. I cant see him through the eyes of a casual fan or viewer with minimal knowdge of the sport, but through my eyes, he's just someone irritating as fuck who never shuts the fuck up.
The way he talked so much and for so long without stopping on pulp mx was insane. All he did was have me praying he'd finally shut the fuck up and let me hear some DV. Or ANYONE ELSE for that matter. My prayers went unanswered as that jackass continued until i just clicked off the pdcast. I wont watch any podcast if he's a guest. He's too damn irritating and i cant fathom him helping this sport in any way. Maybe he can, but i sure as hell dont see how.
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He is the WORST ever and I've been following this sport since 1974. If he brings up one more Nascar reference I'm gonna vomit!!! :sick: 🤮🤢...
He is the WORST ever and I've been following this sport since 1974.

If he brings up one more Nascar reference I'm gonna vomit!!! Sick 🤮🤢


Oh so that’s Mr Wood, never heard of him
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That segment with DV and Wood was terrible. DV had a point he wanted to make and was going to make his point regardless of anything anyone was going to say. Matthes probably will never have DV as a guest host again. He pretty much shit on everyone of Pulps sponsors and you could tell Steve was very uncomfortable with what he was saying. He has a strong personality and strong opinions. Not always the best guy to put in that seat. I like him he seems pretty cool, but damn man you can’t flame your sponsors like that.

As for Rutledge Wood, he thinks he is more funny and more important than most SX fans do. I have never understood his appeal, I thought US Top Gear was a joke after about 2 episodes. I rarely watch NASCAR so I don’t know what he does for them. I assume he plays the silly overweight kid that asks the dumb questions so us idiots don’t have to. I am not a fan, he is probably a decent guy, but I just don’t want to invest the time to find out.

As for MotoGP, F1, BSB and WSBK broadcasts, these are really well done shows. They give you good info but don’t treat you like you have a serious brain injury. They assume you know something about the sport and are smart enough to figure it out if you are the least bit interested. They don’t dumb it down to attract the non fans. They know who they are servicing and the programing reflects that. You have to remember Feld is not a racing company, it is an entertainment company, its all about the sizzle and not about the steak.
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This bloke, is the very definition of a complete CockWomble
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