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Congrats to RD1 and RD5 on what they accomplished this year. Congrats to Mitch for once again proving his dominance...I've never seen anything like that Lites main on Saturday...wow. Congrats to Pingree for what he's done over there at TLD/Lucas. Much respect to Throttle for dealing with many obstacles in his season so far with Valli, getting on the box and having a brilliant ride by Cunningham in Vegas. Congrats to J-Bone and J-Brayton for getting on the box and finishing the SX season with a top 5. All these guys are amazing individuals and don't need a cheesy award or superficial "Manager of the Year" title to gain the respect of anyone that knows this sport or industry.
I also think you guys are targeting some anger in the wrong direction. There's no real need to bash Larry on this. I'd guess he enjoyed this year about as much as some of you did.
Something is up, I bet he tells all tonight especially if he's a last minute addition.
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larry reads and posts here...maybe he can spin it for you.
Yeah, seriously though. In this economy and with the limited budgets they have now, the accomplishments of teams like Valli, TLD, JGR, Rockstar Suzuki, who have all had podiums this year, speak for themselves.
Job well done this year gentlemen.
Now on to the real racing.
Chad Reed sure seemed to be happy about Larry Brooks winning this year or maybe not. If they picked names from a hat (like Reed said), Brooks' name must have been stuck in the hat from the past two years with his back to back Supercross class Championships. It's not that Larry Brooks should have won the Manager of the Year, but this year? A little late...........Strange!
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I bet Larry Brooks would admit personally that this was probably his worst season as manager in his career threw no fault of his own.
In his defense, he took a rider(Hill) nobody else seemed to want, whiped him into the best shape of his life and turned him into a title threat till he injured his ribs. Hill is the most turned around rider on the circuit, and certainly Brooks must have had something to do with that.
Im pissed though, as I only just tuned into the Mathis show tonight and it sounds like Brooks is bagging on Hill for being a puss about his ribs.
*{i] now hes bagging on him again about possible party influences.....Brooks wont comit to resigning Hill....[/i]*
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He was pretty much wondering why he got it this year and not the years he felt like he deserved it.
Either way he deserves it, so leave it at that. Mitch Payton has success but he will be the 1st to admit no championship is easy!
Nothing else can think of.
I dont like the guy personally, but as a team manager he is all about bussiness and gets it done and should be awarded for it.
Anaheim 1 - Stewart 1st place
Phoenix, AZ - Josh Hill 3rd place
Anaheim 2 - Josh Hill 2nd place & James Stewart 3rd place
San Francisco - Josh Hill 2nd place
San Diego - Josh Hill 2nd place
Anaheim 3 - Josh Hill 2nd place
1 win and 7 podium finishes and all this happened in the first 6 races of the series.
This blows Valli, TLD and JGR away. So not sure what you were trying to say in your post. Maybe you have short term memory.
Out of our list, Rockstar Suzuki (Dungey) was the one team that did better than L&M and they were awarded a Championship and they deserved it.
Why didn't I see any posts questioning why Forest Butler received the Manager of the Year in 2008? That's a bigger shocker than a Manager that has won Championships and built Championship team's.
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