Best Supercross Announcers

We have all heard about the complaints and the positives as part of other threads, let’s get it out in the open constructively. 😊

Edit: or as suggested Pam and tommy. 😂
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Last Braaap
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1/14/2022 5:41am
If Paul Malin would announce the SX broadcasts all american announcers would go bankrupt. Just saying.
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1/14/2022 5:44am
I prefer Leigh to call it and Emig for the color.

Ralph's style I found overly simplistic, and I heard him on PulpMX explain why, but it's not my jam.

Ricky has excellent insight but he just doesn't have the calling skills. He consistently stumbles on his words and doesn't seem to jive with the caller in the both so they can sometimes both attempt to interrupt each other.

There's nothing wrong with Leigh but I would prefer Weege just because he's a fun character immersed in the sport. Color I could go Emig or Blair or someone new altogether.
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1/14/2022 6:02am
Your missing a few.....
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Top of my list are Bailey, Eckman, Blair and Weege.
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1/14/2022 6:44am
Bailey and Eckman
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1/14/2022 7:52am
ML512 wrote:
Top of my list are Bailey, Eckman, Blair and Weege.
When did weege announce an AMA Supercross?
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1/14/2022 8:17am
Skills wise they all are lacking in areas..
But for me personally, Ralph’s voice just IS supercross to me, fro compliments him well..
I don’t care about the mistakes, I can see the race on the screen for myself, for me it just adds excitement.
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Bailey has #1 analyst for sure. Ricky is pretty impressive, though.

Leigh is boring. Ralph didn't seem attached enough toward the end. Todd Harris says things like Monstercross energy but I like his style. Daniel Blair is probably the best of what we have had in a long time.

I have completely turned ship on my opinion of Daniel Blair, he won me over in the past 2 years or so.
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1/14/2022 8:46am Edited Date/Time 1/14/2022 9:04am
Skills wise they all are lacking in areas.. But for me personally, Ralph’s voice just IS supercross to me, fro compliments him well.. I don’t care...
Skills wise they all are lacking in areas..
But for me personally, Ralph’s voice just IS supercross to me, fro compliments him well..
I don’t care about the mistakes, I can see the race on the screen for myself, for me it just adds excitement.
While I agree with the excitement that Ralph's voice brought as soon as the broadcast started, things like calling the checkered flag one lap early multiple times during a season was a no go. So in my opinion Diffey was a massive upgrade.
Blair only did one event last year and he absolutely crushed it.
So for me Blair, Diffey, Emig, I like RC as an analyst.
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1/14/2022 8:47am
Lurch....
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1/14/2022 9:03am
Emig and Lee would be nice. Lee is getting the hang of SX after 1 year. RC has got to go.
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1/14/2022 9:42am
I'm am good with any of the 4 listed (who are the only ones listed that have held the job). They all have their strengths and weaknesses.

Would like to see Bailey and Ping get a shot if the regulars were not able to show.

Weege is an obvious good pick too to get a shot.

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1/14/2022 10:01am
Jim Lampley and Sam Posey .
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1/14/2022 10:20am
Bailey and Eckman
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1/14/2022 11:38am
Gas7 wrote:
Bailey and Eckman
And by miles (in my opinion of course.)
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1/14/2022 11:42am
Larry Huffman and David Stanfield
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I think the OP was giving only the options of the last two completely different SX announcing combo’s to clarify preference of the most recent pairings, not to get opinion of any SX or MX commentator ever……

Funny to see Ralph and Emig leading the poll since when they were doing it, there would be multiple complaints and whinging about them on here and elsewhere every week. Now not so much.

Seems a lot of you guys want whoever is not currently in the booth and have sugar coated memories.
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1/14/2022 3:18pm
Hoping Blair gets a few rounds in the booth this year, thing he has great potential.
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1/14/2022 3:30pm
CPR wrote:
I think the OP was giving only the options of the last two completely different SX announcing combo’s to clarify preference of the most recent pairings...
I think the OP was giving only the options of the last two completely different SX announcing combo’s to clarify preference of the most recent pairings, not to get opinion of any SX or MX commentator ever……

Funny to see Ralph and Emig leading the poll since when they were doing it, there would be multiple complaints and whinging about them on here and elsewhere every week. Now not so much.

Seems a lot of you guys want whoever is not currently in the booth and have sugar coated memories.
He gets it 👍
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1/14/2022 8:16pm
Weege and Matthes
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1/14/2022 8:22pm
For modern day racing, I would choose Ricky and Blair. I really enjoyed those two together last year.
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1/14/2022 9:47pm
Diffey is very good at his job . His Indycar knowledge and commentry is spot on with that which is his bread and butter job. He will probably only do SX until Indy restarts but is a solid no mistakes kinda guy compared to Ralph who used to do my head in. RC is ok as number 2 in the booth and seems to be getting better.
It could be way worse . Still find the tweety bird English lady hard to understand.
1/14/2022 10:03pm
Been watching a lot of the older races, it amazes me how often Ralph would interrupt Jeff or Ricky while they were mid sentence.
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1/14/2022 10:15pm Edited Date/Time 1/14/2022 10:16pm
wtf, No Art eckman or David Bailey or Larry bigmouth Huffman. or Terry Boyd??

op must be young as hell.
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1/14/2022 10:40pm Edited Date/Time 1/16/2022 1:10pm
ATKpilot99 wrote:
Jim Lampley and Sam Posey .
Back in the day, I just couldn't wait to hear their voices every year on ABC's Wide World of Sports despite how bad they were.

If you think they were bad, I've got some old races that have guys like John Brodie and Richard "Shaft" Roundtree doing the announcing.

I always liked Larry Huffman and later Eckman and Bailey.

Anybody remember back in the 90's the bulk of the SX series was shown on ESPN, but the Daytona Supercross was always aired on the American Sports Cavalcade by The Nashville Network. I always liked their broadcast of Daytona and the announcers were always Paul Page, Gary Gerrould and Steve Evans. Even though they were more auto racing guys, I liked those guys doing MX. They always did a good job.
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1/15/2022 3:24am
Motodave15 wrote:
wtf, No Art eckman or David Bailey or Larry bigmouth Huffman. or Terry Boyd??

op must be young as hell.
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1/15/2022 6:09am
Braun and Boyd with Erin
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