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I'm not picking apart your words. Watching the national directly and indirectly support MXSports. You are watching their product, which they sell. You're just inconsistent and not really taking any stand at all if you're not willing to forgo something you enjoy for principle.
Anyone ranting about boycotts of MXSports who doesn't stop watching the races is a performative blowhard.
If I stopped watching the racing, I stop supporting the athletes and teams. I will always support the riders and teams, and they will always race the professional series regardless of who is promoting it.
I guess a better way to word my statement would be "I will not continue to support Racer X", since the majority of my points centered around Racer X coverage being impartial due to their involvement with MXSports.
If your principles bend to self interest -- here you wanting to eat your cake and have it, too, by continuing to watch races -- you don't have principles.
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I will still receive 9 more Racer X issues that I've already paid for, just like the last 3 national races I've already paid to watch them. In the future, if I don't see positive changes, I won't pay to watch. Just like I'm not going to pay to renew my RX subscription due to the points I have already mentioned.
Shit happens man.
There are 11 million positives with the group you take for granted.
I'd cancel my vital membership but they won't give me a refund.
When someone 's deciding to NOT spend their money on something they don't believe in?
That's an informed decision by a consumer.
When someone GOES OUT OF THEIR WAY TO GET OTHERS TO DO THE SAME?
That's Cancel Culture Exemplar.
FTE, as usual, you're warning us that...
"Words have meaning."
Nice!
This is from DC on Racer X...
Any rider in any class at Loretta Lynn’s has the right to claim another rider in the same race’s bike for double the MSRP (about $17K in the case of a ’22 YZ250F). Brennan Schofield knew the rules, saved up his own money and claimed another bike in the race, Haiden Deegan’s. The Deegans were upset because it’s apparently Haiden’s last amateur bike; Star Yamaha Racing were upset about it because a lot more than $17K goes into one of their bikes, as it’s no longer just the trick parts that make up a race package these days, but all of the ECU and data information and R&D and whatnot that a team like Star Yamaha Racing has invested in their program. In my personal opinion Haiden Deegan did not need a bike that was on par with what the pro riders will be using here at Unadilla tomorrow to win an amateur race, so it was risky for the team to send him out on a bike that they didn’t want to risk handing over to someone who claimed it, even if for double the price. I believe there needs to be a claiming rule for amateurs to help keep the playing field even, at least in regards to equipment, and I know Tim Cotter and Mike Burkeen feel the same way. And I can promise you neither cared whether the bike got claimed or not, they just wanted to make sure it was the rider’s decision, both to claim it and then later to un-claim it, and that it was all handled properly. That said, anything else that happened with this deal away from them and the MX Sports’ office trailer is a different story…
No person or company is perfect. MX Sports fights for visibility in a content-driven world, and its survival hinges on finding new avenues to broadcast its product. The fact that our sport is pushed aside for fame-seeking Kardashian knock-offs or another home improvement show irks me far more than MAVTV streaming challenges or an amateur bike debate.
Davey would be first to tell you that MX Sports needs to improve. No business owner sits back and says “that’s good enough”. DC represents the best of our sport, and is perhaps the only champion for its survival. It takes heart and soul to bring niche sports to the masses, and I’m not sure any other person or corporation has what it takes.
Pit Row
There is zero excuse for the craptacular way MX Sports (including DC, but especially Tim Cotter), Brian Deegan, Matt Walker, Yamaha USA and Yamaha Canada handled this. None. Nada. Zip. Completely, 100% bullshit. In fact, if someone challenged me to handle it more poorly, I don't think I could have done so.
MX Sports has pretty much ruined the Coombs' family motocross legacy. Brian Deegan has been a hero of mine since he ghost rode his Suzuki after crossing the finish line at the 1997 LA supercross. No longer.
If you respect any of these people after this incident, you need help. Seriously.
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