Bondo - Weekly Complaint box

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7/7/2024 12:18pm Edited Date/Time 7/7/2024 12:42pm
Zycki11 wrote:
Turn the bike sounds up a hair more, tell Weege and whom ever else is working along with him that some silence is ok. Missing key...

Turn the bike sounds up a hair more, tell Weege and whom ever else is working along with him that some silence is ok. Missing key moments and not even mentioning them is inexcusable and again, they can make easy changes to smooth over the edges. Less fluff talk and pandering, and more grit and technical talk. That is what will create more interest if anybody outside of our world have a rats ass. 

“Missing key moments…”

Worst of all, going to a replay of the start…a replay that NO VIEWER CARES ABOUT when we’re watching REAL BATTLES AT THE END OF THE MOTO. 

I usually don’t…won’t…participate in these weekly “TV Crew Beatings”…but, some of this stuff is getting really old.

Mea culpa 

The “straight live feed” during the commercials was pure bliss. The drone coverage this week was stellar. The drone pilot deserves a good ice cold beer. 

Another thing, when is someone from the TV production management team gonna explain why they got rid of the most literate and “well spoken” member of the cast? 

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7/7/2024 12:31pm Edited Date/Time 7/7/2024 12:51pm

I know we talk a lot of shit about Will and her "I talked to so and so" but did anyone notice that it was EVERY time this time? Literally every time they sent it to her she had to throw the " I talked to so and so" line out there. Which also means if she is talking past tense that means they arent talking about anything happening CURRENTLY on the track. A lot of this has been talking shit and hoping they read it but i want to make this more personal,  Will, if you read this, please shut the fuck up unless you have something current to say or it has something to do with what im watching on my screen. Your constant mid week stories have nothing to do with live racing and if thats all you have to bring to the table please take your "talents" somewhere else. 

 

RC - Dude we are sick of you. You were my hero as a kid. But its gotten so bad that this is making me not like you. You are literally ruining my joy of watching the sport and bring zero excitement. I dont know about you but ive never in my life sat in traffic with a 180 heart rate trying to make a light with someone "coming up my rear" You are fucking embarrassing.

 

I dont know about all of you but waiting a week (sometimes longer), reading the aritcles and interviews building up the hype. Waking up excited its race day and then have to go all day with a mixed bag of emotions because the broadcast is so terrible. This is not some isolated problem with a small group of people. Facebook, Instagram, vital.. the disgust is everywhere with this broadcast team. We have all said who is best. We have all seen who is best. Why is the best not getting the job? Why do we keep getting shit forced down our throats. 

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7/7/2024 1:32pm
Zycki11 wrote:
Turn the bike sounds up a hair more, tell Weege and whom ever else is working along with him that some silence is ok. Missing key...

Turn the bike sounds up a hair more, tell Weege and whom ever else is working along with him that some silence is ok. Missing key moments and not even mentioning them is inexcusable and again, they can make easy changes to smooth over the edges. Less fluff talk and pandering, and more grit and technical talk. That is what will create more interest if anybody outside of our world have a rats ass. 

TeamGreen wrote:
“Missing key moments…” Worst of all, going to a replay of the start…a replay that NO VIEWER CARES ABOUT when we’re watching REAL BATTLES AT THE...

“Missing key moments…”

Worst of all, going to a replay of the start…a replay that NO VIEWER CARES ABOUT when we’re watching REAL BATTLES AT THE END OF THE MOTO. 

I usually don’t…won’t…participate in these weekly “TV Crew Beatings”…but, some of this stuff is getting really old.

Mea culpa 

The “straight live feed” during the commercials was pure bliss. The drone coverage this week was stellar. The drone pilot deserves a good ice cold beer. 

Another thing, when is someone from the TV production management team gonna explain why they got rid of the most literate and “well spoken” member of the cast? 

The whole screen replay of the holeshot during the moto is inexcusable. We aren’t asking for much haha, small changes lead to big ones over time. This is an easy one to fix. Save it for the race recap!

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7/7/2024 1:46pm
Herr Lich wrote:
RC can't string a sentence together, nor get words out of his mouth correctly.  RC: "Justin Cooper is one of the smaller 450 riders out of...

RC can't string a sentence together, nor get words out of his mouth correctly.  RC: "Justin Cooper is one of the smaller 450 riders out of the greep". 

It must suck for Weege having to carry the blabbering, incoherent, redundant mess in the seat next to him.  

"He's having a great Sneezon" though

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7/7/2024 2:05pm Edited Date/Time 7/7/2024 2:09pm
Oldstyle wrote:
How about a good shot of the guys going over Larocco’s leap? Don’t zoom in on them, the close up shot doesn’t do it justice! one...

How about a good shot of the guys going over Larocco’s leap? Don’t zoom in on them, the close up shot doesn’t do it justice!

one of the most iconic jumps of the series and they are butchering the coverage of it. Racing has been good though! Rant over  

I think the angle used to be better when the Leap went to the turn before the finish line. The camera was over by the corner so it was more head-on with the landing. I think they should just move it back to that spot if possible.

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7/7/2024 2:48pm
Talon wrote:
I know we talk a lot of shit about Will and her "I talked to so and so" but did anyone notice that it was EVERY...

I know we talk a lot of shit about Will and her "I talked to so and so" but did anyone notice that it was EVERY time this time? Literally every time they sent it to her she had to throw the " I talked to so and so" line out there. Which also means if she is talking past tense that means they arent talking about anything happening CURRENTLY on the track. A lot of this has been talking shit and hoping they read it but i want to make this more personal,  Will, if you read this, please shut the fuck up unless you have something current to say or it has something to do with what im watching on my screen. Your constant mid week stories have nothing to do with live racing and if thats all you have to bring to the table please take your "talents" somewhere else. 

 

RC - Dude we are sick of you. You were my hero as a kid. But its gotten so bad that this is making me not like you. You are literally ruining my joy of watching the sport and bring zero excitement. I dont know about you but ive never in my life sat in traffic with a 180 heart rate trying to make a light with someone "coming up my rear" You are fucking embarrassing.

 

I dont know about all of you but waiting a week (sometimes longer), reading the aritcles and interviews building up the hype. Waking up excited its race day and then have to go all day with a mixed bag of emotions because the broadcast is so terrible. This is not some isolated problem with a small group of people. Facebook, Instagram, vital.. the disgust is everywhere with this broadcast team. We have all said who is best. We have all seen who is best. Why is the best not getting the job? Why do we keep getting shit forced down our throats. 

Man you nailed the Will part perfectly lol. Hopefully she reads that. 

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7/7/2024 3:53pm
Oldstyle wrote:
How about a good shot of the guys going over Larocco’s leap? Don’t zoom in on them, the close up shot doesn’t do it justice! one...

How about a good shot of the guys going over Larocco’s leap? Don’t zoom in on them, the close up shot doesn’t do it justice!

one of the most iconic jumps of the series and they are butchering the coverage of it. Racing has been good though! Rant over  

I was thinking the same thing. Do a wide shot and you can see who is jumping it and who isn’t. One of the most iconic jumps on the circuit and you can barely tell what a massive jump it really is. 

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7/7/2024 8:16pm

Who/what is Bondo and why are we mad at him/it?

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7/7/2024 8:44pm
truck wrote:
RC and James used to both get a lot of complaints. RC still gets the same complaints after doing this for how long? James has steadily...

RC and James used to both get a lot of complaints. RC still gets the same complaints after doing this for how long? James has steadily improved and has much better chemistry with weege. AC adds to the broadcast while will distracts from it. The contrast between last week and this week was a little jarring. 

Give the full time job to James and weege, ac and jt. Set it and forget it and let them grow into a one of those broadcast crews we reminisce about years later. 

The thing I liked about AC was that he didn't do a single 'background story' during the whole broadcast.  All his comments were just on the race going on.  JT's comments are also the same.  We don't need Will's inane ramblings about what color panties so and so rider wore during the week. 

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7/7/2024 9:24pm

Not sure if it was mentioned already, but Vialle's crash in moto 1 followed immediately by replays of every crash he has had of the season.

Also...when Ricky first came to the booth I was pretty chuffed.  I always thought give him a chance he will get better...I think yesterday he was possibly at his worst ever.  There was one point where he was stuck in an "inside outside" seizure.

"Watch him go inside outside, where he'll go inside then quickly move to the outside."

Put the old GOAT out to pasture.

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7/7/2024 10:49pm
Talon wrote:
I know we talk a lot of shit about Will and her "I talked to so and so" but did anyone notice that it was EVERY...

I know we talk a lot of shit about Will and her "I talked to so and so" but did anyone notice that it was EVERY time this time? Literally every time they sent it to her she had to throw the " I talked to so and so" line out there. Which also means if she is talking past tense that means they arent talking about anything happening CURRENTLY on the track. A lot of this has been talking shit and hoping they read it but i want to make this more personal,  Will, if you read this, please shut the fuck up unless you have something current to say or it has something to do with what im watching on my screen. Your constant mid week stories have nothing to do with live racing and if thats all you have to bring to the table please take your "talents" somewhere else. 

 

RC - Dude we are sick of you. You were my hero as a kid. But its gotten so bad that this is making me not like you. You are literally ruining my joy of watching the sport and bring zero excitement. I dont know about you but ive never in my life sat in traffic with a 180 heart rate trying to make a light with someone "coming up my rear" You are fucking embarrassing.

 

I dont know about all of you but waiting a week (sometimes longer), reading the aritcles and interviews building up the hype. Waking up excited its race day and then have to go all day with a mixed bag of emotions because the broadcast is so terrible. This is not some isolated problem with a small group of people. Facebook, Instagram, vital.. the disgust is everywhere with this broadcast team. We have all said who is best. We have all seen who is best. Why is the best not getting the job? Why do we keep getting shit forced down our throats. 

Because M claw pin. Only logical conclusion.

The dude is battling it out in the trenches to further the corporate overlords “grow the sport” campaign…

 

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7/7/2024 10:55pm
Because M claw pin. Only logical conclusion. The dude is battling it out in the trenches to further the corporate overlords “grow the sport” campaign…  

Because M claw pin. Only logical conclusion.

The dude is battling it out in the trenches to further the corporate overlords “grow the sport” campaign…

 

Wow, lol. RC insinuating he's an "expert" in broadcasting is hilarious. The only reason he has any announcing gig is because of his racing career, which he doesn't even use effectively when announcing. Dude would be laughed out of any audition if he was a normal applicant.

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Because M claw pin. Only logical conclusion. The dude is battling it out in the trenches to further the corporate overlords “grow the sport” campaign…  

Because M claw pin. Only logical conclusion.

The dude is battling it out in the trenches to further the corporate overlords “grow the sport” campaign…

 

Sounds like a defensive man who is losing a job to someone better for the first time in his life and is struggling to accept it. 

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7/8/2024 9:05pm
flatspin wrote:

Who/what is Bondo and why are we mad at him/it?

He's the TV producer of SX/MX, or some might say the ringleader of this terrible production.  It'll stay bad as long as he's in the production trailer.

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dkurtd wrote:
He's the TV producer of SX/MX, or some might say the ringleader of this terrible production.  It'll stay bad as long as he's in the production...

He's the TV producer of SX/MX, or some might say the ringleader of this terrible production.  It'll stay bad as long as he's in the production trailer.

Thanks for the clarification of the person in charge of this whole circus. Good info to know. Now I actually know who to be mad at

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Was thinking more about this Will situation. When was the last time we had a "I'm here with" interview and not a "I talked to" segment. 

If you look at the MXGP broadcast with Lisa, it doesn't matter if its a top 5 guy or a 15th place guy, if they have an issue or a crash she's either got the rider or a team member for an interview within minutes on what's going on. She is constantly talking to team managers during the race to get insight on the racing CURRENTLY happening. Will literally brings non of this information to light and isn't that the job of the "pit reporter"? why are we waiting to ask ML or Mav on Vital to give us an update days later? do your damn job Bondo/Will and actually report on current events. 

 

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7/9/2024 10:06pm
flatspin wrote:

Who/what is Bondo and why are we mad at him/it?

dkurtd wrote:
He's the TV producer of SX/MX, or some might say the ringleader of this terrible production.  It'll stay bad as long as he's in the production...

He's the TV producer of SX/MX, or some might say the ringleader of this terrible production.  It'll stay bad as long as he's in the production trailer.

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7/9/2024 10:09pm

Congratulations Will 🇺🇸

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7/11/2024 12:18pm Edited Date/Time 7/11/2024 12:18pm
1911 wrote:

Congratulations Will 🇺🇸

What did I miss?

edit: NVM I’m getting old l, congrats

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1911 wrote:

Congratulations Will 🇺🇸

Oldstyle wrote:

What did I miss?

edit: NVM I’m getting old l, congrats

I should have done a better job. United States Citizenship 👍

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7/12/2024 10:17am
1911 wrote:

Congratulations Will 🇺🇸

Is she the one carrying Jetts love child?

 

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7/13/2024 10:37am

Alright Will, lets see if anyone was listening. Off to an ok start with an in person interview with Hunter. 

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7/13/2024 10:54am

Silence is golden 

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7/13/2024 11:31am

Yeah she followed it up with 4 stories during the moto. 

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7/13/2024 11:41am

I get excited when weege says listen. Its great. The sound is soooo much better when they are talking too. Better mix. 
  I think the whole 1st moto did great. Will is just not needed.

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7/13/2024 11:50am

Battle for 2nd shut her up

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7/13/2024 11:53am

Just shut up Will!

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7/13/2024 12:03pm

Alright, I'm giving in. Will, shut the hell up. There's too many people on the broadcast that need their piece of the pie. Keep it to Weege and James and sprinkle Jason "Jett" Thomas in there as needed. 

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7/13/2024 12:35pm

How can we get a cool tub ice tub company to be a sponsor on a team. Garbage cans cheapen it up a bit 😞😅

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7/13/2024 12:39pm
Alright, I'm giving in. Will, shut the hell up. There's too many people on the broadcast that need their piece of the pie. Keep it to...

Alright, I'm giving in. Will, shut the hell up. There's too many people on the broadcast that need their piece of the pie. Keep it to Weege and James and sprinkle Jason "Jett" Thomas in there as needed. 

My wife said the exact same thing after watching that moto.  Why do they need her during the race.? It’s 1 too many. She should do her diatribes pre or halftime. 
 

you can almost set a clock to it. If she is rambling, somethings going to happen😑

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