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Yeah, there was nothing better when watching Wide World of Sports as a kid and seeing them finally show the MX races at Carlsbad!
Larry Maiers always came strong with the cheesy metaphors
I doubt you'd have ever seen RC in this hot tub...
I know it's cool to hate on Joe just like it is to hate on Nickelback, it's a thing. But he's damn good at the baseball. Legend. I got stuck in a snowstorm on a closed road one time and had to listen to a World Series game on the radio. It was mesmerizing. Joe was killing it.
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I would take Fro's slower easier to listen to commentary over RC's Go For fit comment every time. Dame the dude raced and his go-to line is "they are going for it" Really!! This DB deal does not look good on RC. But also this trend to tear everyone down kinda sucks as well, I don't think it is good for the sport but not paying the riders and Feld ruling like a dictator is not good either..
Don’t forget,, “clean air”.
Like him or not, pretty sure he rides and has been announcing SX since the 90s. Other than the DB video I don't get the Leigh hate.
Ursula would never allow it
True, but who wouldve guessed James Stewart had such a personality and doesnt seem to have an ego.
So after skimming through all these threads I would say I’m on team DB however a perspective on RC that I haven’t seen and one that could explain more of his poor behaviour and insecurities is the fact he retired at 27. Yes he had won everything there was to win in moto but part of the retirement angle was a car racing career in which he failed at pretty quickly. MC raced till he couldn’t win anymore, he was old enough to let it go once it was done. Emig was in a situation where an injury prevented him from ever winning again but was already in the latter stages of his career. At 27 you are still in your absolute prime and he walked away from the sport and then proceeded to fail. We got to witness Dungey retire at 27 as champion and then proceed to struggle with the decision for 5 years until eventually he made a comeback because he was too young.
Not sure the 5 hot chicks in the water would, either! 😆
Ralph is the equivalent of Goldberg in the UFC. He was a total cheese ball with the hype but you can look back at him through the lense of nostalgia and miss him in a weird way haha
what an awesome picture. i wish someone would of done a long form interview with art before his passing. i have to imagine he had some great stories. he and bailey will forever be the voices of sx for me.
The RC jabs toward emig got gringe AF! It just kept on, and on, and on. That’s when I lost respect for RC. At the end of the day, RC has nothing to offer besides his accomplishments…. To be honest, I bet most fans don’t realize that they love his awards, not him as a person. That’s sad!
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And don't forget those "the reasons that i say that..." over and over again
"It might be an advantage for Sexton (or whichever factory guy failed to qualify) to race the LCQ."
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It doesn't have anything to do with old or young, I just don't care about it that much, not enough to let it compromise my enjoyment watching races. I don't watch to listen to announcers. It's just a temperament thing, young or old, not a cop out as claimed in the post I replied to.
Other people care more. Some don't as much. I'm the latter. The MotoGP announcers are pretty good, but I keep the sound pretty low on those races, too. I'd be fine with a broadcast with just track noise as long as it provides visual updates on things happening not on the screen that change rider placing.
I can't ever remember paying much attention to the trackside announcers when at a live race.
But yeah, old or not, I definitely am happy to watch as many races as I can and am not going to drag that enjoyment down worrying about the announcers. I'm for sure paying more attention when James is commenting because he draws my attention to things I don't see and then understand better. Bailey was good at that, too. But my eyes always will be more on the race than my ears are on the announcing team.
I mean, this one is hard to explain. Very unprofessional. It is funny to think, so many years later, a guy that could barely win an LCQ is RC's biggest rival in life.
As another comment stated, we generally respect what RC did. His records. But he was never as likable as some of the other greats like Pastrana, Windham, Stewart, Villopoto, Dungey. You can be a champ without being a terrible person.
I should have said some of the older guys… (not all older guys, lol).
While we’re now paying for streaming tv packages, I also would love the option of having an announcer-free option, along with being able to choose camera angles, which battles to follow, and a steady leaderboard with laptimes. Throw in some on-bike cameras and helmet and/or chest cams. My god, we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st Century, this sport needs to catch up!
Jeff Emig worked really hard to do a great job. Jeff had a bad stuttering problem for many years, and fear of speaking due to his stuttering. He worked with a speech therapist to get over it then a coach to help with broadcasting.
RC should've taken notes and tried to improve himself hahaha
I gaurantee you most people tolerate the little sawed off insecure ginger because they have to, not because they want to. Emig and McGrath included.
I remember hearing RC chirping Emig and it sounded very similar to the Carmichael/Blair interaction.
Skill in a sport doesn’t mean good person. Quite often, it means the opposite.
Doing okay, Rick, thanks for asking. Could be better, could be worse, all in all better than I have any right to expect. Ticked off more extra years than I expected, but slowing down for sure and miss shooting at the races. Hope you're well and still standing them on the rear wheel.
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I don't buy this idea that Leigh is a massive fan of the sport. The first couple of years he kept refering to factory bikes as works bikes. This indicates he'd probably paid fuck all attention to moto since the mid 1980s. Of course, the larger problem is he's a terrible motorsports commentator. I don't know what the standard is like in the US but all the commentators on motorsport internationally are far superior to Tintin Diffey.
The better talent is on RDL right now
Let’s not forget “he’s rollin”. If that doesn’t scream early 2000’s, nothing does. It’s 2025 RC, get with it and when you learn a new/current term don’t burn it on one broadcast. I remember when he was trying to figure out the proper way to use the current term “flex” and fucked that up 100 mph.
I remember the broadcast showing a fan with an Emig jersey on and RC saying "Jeff, Is that your neighbor!" I thought it was hilarious, but most of the time his digs are cringeworthy.. He's a serious ball buster but with an overly condescending tone.
Emig was my hero/favorite pro back when I was a kid growing up and he was badass enough to have gave me a couple signed Arnette goggles and a couple jerseys. That stuff would piss me off when Ricky would do that, like Emig wasn’t a straight up champ and badass. Ricky’s shows his little man syndrome, Emigs still badass. Didn’t RC essentially take Fros job too?
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