Daniel Blair: The Whole Truth (updated with YouTube link)

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3/5/2025 10:51am Edited Date/Time 3/5/2025 11:54am

So this ad came across my IG. Theres even comments on ads and products he’s endorsing. This is a major black eye for RC. You have to think him, his sponsors and his agent are in deep panic mode today. 
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3/5/2025 10:57am

Hypothetical for yall. Say Ricky and LD start the show at the next race with a genuine apology and own what they’ve done. Do you think that would be enough?

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Hypothetical for yall. Say Ricky and LD start the show at the next race with a genuine apology and own what they’ve done. Do you think...

Hypothetical for yall. Say Ricky and LD start the show at the next race with a genuine apology and own what they’ve done. Do you think that would be enough?

Not even close. We still have to listen to those fuck tards fumble fuck the entire broadcast up every week…

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3/5/2025 10:59am
mtbkris2 wrote:
Hypothetical for yall. Say Ricky and LD start the show at the next race with a genuine apology and own what they’ve done. Do you think...

Hypothetical for yall. Say Ricky and LD start the show at the next race with a genuine apology and own what they’ve done. Do you think that would be enough?

Not really. Only sorry because you got caught comes to mind for me. 

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Also, one of my biggest problems with Ricky is regarding how he looks at his critics/Blair’s supporters. He seems to think that only a small portion...

Also, one of my biggest problems with Ricky is regarding how he looks at his critics/Blair’s supporters. He seems to think that only a small portion of the fanbase has an issue with his announcing, and that these are just whiny “keyboard warriors” who are a loud minority and don’t deserve to be respected the same way as the majority of the fanbase. What Ricky fails to realize is, almost everybody thinks he is subpar at his job as a commentator. It’s not just a select few noisy “keyboard warriors”, unless he believes the whole fanbase of the sport is nothing but keyboard warriors, which means he has zero respect for us. 

This bleeds over to the fans loving Blair. He disparagingly calls Blair “the fans’ favorite toy” as if that’s a bad thing. Dude, commentators exist FOR THE FANS!! If the fans express support for a particular commentator, it means he’s actually GOOD at his job. You dimwit.

Pampered athlete syndrome. He's been told how great he is for virtually his entire life so now he believes that applies to everything he does.

Decades of that treatment has an impact on a guys ego, and he's clearly in love with the smell of his own farts by now. No changing it.

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3/5/2025 11:21am

You know that boat clapback kept RC up for a night or two. A quick wit can't be taught or preperated for, you either have it or you don't. 

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You know that boat clapback kept RC up for a night or two. A quick wit can't be taught or preperated for, you either have it...

You know that boat clapback kept RC up for a night or two. A quick wit can't be taught or preperated for, you either have it or you don't. 

Applies to everything in life. DB could have ran the exact same regime as RC or RV and he'd still get lapped. RC who first stepped in the booth for a guest appearance (injured 04 sx) more than 20 years ago and has a ton of experience will never be as good as even the super green DB was

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3/5/2025 11:36am Edited Date/Time 3/5/2025 11:43am

I don't know what else you guys were expecting on the Pulp show. It sucks they "couldn't" speak their true feelings on it, because I'd be willing to bet behind the scenes they are supporting Daniel more than the show implied. I'm sure Daniel knows that. After all, he did try to move on and not air all this out. 

Doesn't mean JT or Steve agree with how Daniel went about it, which is fine. Everyone can have their opinion. They definitely focused WAY too much on the "you don't like people you work with" thing, but I don't know if that was intentionally done to draw focus away from what Daniel really had a problem with.

Steve is Steve and he's going to always find a contrarian type point to make, it's just what he does. JT gave Daniel a lot of praise for how he helped him when he got on the broadcast, which to me is an indicator of why some of this happened.

Daniel is just too "nice" for that world. Without GOAT status, or a resume of announcing the Olympics or the like, unfortunately you aren't going to get anywhere being that kind of guy. I could see it going the same exact way for AC and Brayton. RC is there because they get to say "The Greatest of All Time" every single show. That's it. That is what THEY think matters to the fans. 

It does crack me up watching that Blairs Breakdown and noticing how Daniel literally has to help RC insult him 😂

For the record, regardless of my other opinions, Daniel deserves that role and what RC and especially Diffey did is absolutely pathetic. 

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3/5/2025 11:42am

I am bummed because the twitter account I used to follow has been deleted. It went by the handle "bigzippy" centered around that horrible sports coat RC used to wear in the booth back in the day. 

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I remember being bummed when James Hetfield kicked Jason Newstead and Dave Mustaine out of his band but then I got over it 

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3/5/2025 11:50am

I remember being bummed when James Hetfield kicked Jason Newstead and Dave Mustaine out of his band but then I got over it 

Jason Newstead's inaudible bass is a strange one to go all in on.

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3/5/2025 11:55am Edited Date/Time 3/5/2025 11:56am

I remember being bummed when James Hetfield kicked Jason Newstead and Dave Mustaine out of his band but then I got over it 

Jason Newstead's inaudible bass is a strange one to go all in on.

And yet AJFA gets half a million streams daily. 

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3/5/2025 11:57am Edited Date/Time 3/5/2025 12:11pm

I remember being bummed when James Hetfield kicked Jason Newstead and Dave Mustaine out of his band but then I got over it 

Jason Newstead's inaudible bass is a strange one to go all in on.

And yet AJFA gets half a million streams daily. 

And not one of those half a million can hear an ounce of bass guitar in the mix.

I bet folks would be plenty happy with RC if his live engineer gave his mic the Newstead-style mute-button mix.

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I remember being bummed when James Hetfield kicked Jason Newstead and Dave Mustaine out of his band but then I got over it 

Should have kicked out Lars, and whoever over-produced Justice

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Disappointed we’re not getting a Blair-Matthes project this week, looks like they’ll probably avoid talking about it

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3/5/2025 12:14pm Edited Date/Time 3/5/2025 12:20pm

I remember being bummed when James Hetfield kicked Jason Newstead and Dave Mustaine out of his band but then I got over it 

Jason Newstead's inaudible bass is a strange one to go all in on.

And yet AJFA gets half a million streams daily. 

Safe to say Daniel Blair drew the shortest straw....

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3/5/2025 12:36pm

Disappointed we’re not getting a Blair-Matthes project this week, looks like they’ll probably avoid talking about it

Where did you see or hear there won't be one this week?

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3/5/2025 12:45pm

Disappointed we’re not getting a Blair-Matthes project this week, looks like they’ll probably avoid talking about it

Where did you see or hear there won't be one this week?

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3/5/2025 12:47pm

Disappointed we’re not getting a Blair-Matthes project this week, looks like they’ll probably avoid talking about it

Where did you see or hear there won't be one this week?

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Thank you, sir. I think they record it on Tuesdays though, so it might still be up tomorrow. 

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Where did you see or hear there won't be one this week?

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Thank you, sir. I think they record it on Tuesdays though, so it might still be up tomorrow. 

It will probably depend on the direction of this whole thing. If it gets worse or keeps the same energy we prob won’t get one. If shit kinda blows over .. you get it. 
 

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3/5/2025 12:58pm

Disappointed we’re not getting a Blair-Matthes project this week, looks like they’ll probably avoid talking about it

Where did you see or hear there won't be one this week?

I got the answer from Matthes Twitter, he said essentially the same thing Talon posted and then said there’d be no BM project this week, back before Birmingham

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The only thing I would have recommended to Daniel is that he still should have taken advantage of the Race Day Live spot to pimp his new SXU and push his feelings about the "no qualifying/race talk" aside because that is great earned coverage to his target market (assuming that was the case and he wasn't 86'd completely for a different reason). Then continue to light the world on fire.

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3/5/2025 1:38pm

kinda sounds like disappointment in unmet expectations, what he wanted and how he envionsioned it in his mind didnt match what others were planning. No big issues in that, just a bummer, i enjoyed listening to his calls, he did good, but honestly dont think corporate media fit him. doing his own version is good and he should run with that. 

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Timing is everything. 9:20 in the video. Classic!https://www.vitalmx.com/videos/features/how-important-public-image-supercross-question-week

Timing is everything. 9:20 in the video. 

Classic!

https://www.vitalmx.com/videos/features/how-important-public-image-supe…

LMFAO, so is Ricky now going to reach out to DB and apologize? And speak to the NBC douche and tell him Daniel is great, and that he, RC, was just having a bad day? And will Ricky share this new found wisdom with Dippy?

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And his ego is so big he probably doesn’t even understand where all the hate is coming from or what’s even going on. When you are...

And his ego is so big he probably doesn’t even understand where all the hate is coming from or what’s even going on. When you are a super winner like that, and get your ass kissed at every turn, it’s hard to notice a bunch of pea ants complaining. The whole, lion doesn’t concern himself with the opinions of sheep. 

 That being said, Blair wears his heart on his sleeve. This wasn’t him throwing a fit about not getting his way, or being over sensitive. The downright degrading, talking down to, making him feel so small and insignificant was the epitome of uncalled for and the opposite of what Blair thought he was associating himself with. He is so passionate about the sport, he wants everyone to kick ass, Lee, Todd, himself, Ricky, everyone. But the politics and the ego and disrespect was truly unreal. I’m glad he pulled back the cover on this. 

 we already know Steve and JT weren’t gonna say a goddamn thing about it because they can’t, but we don’t need their opinion, we heard it straight from the horse’s mouth

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JT and Steve spent 15 minutes talking about it last night. 

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And didn’t say anything. 

Yep, and even worse than that... 

Matthes , after all his prodding to get DB to spill the beans publicly, Matthes basically says that DB should have kept it to himself.  

If Matthes felt that way...why the prodding to get DB to say anything publicly?  You know , Matthes already knew the details prior to DB going public. 

Not a Matthes fan. 

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