Daniel Blair / Jase Macalpine in the booth - WSX Capetown S. Africa

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12/15/2025 11:51am
Jase was bad. "He just pulled a tear off!" I don't like his show either, so maybe I'm just a hater, but his announcing performance was...

Jase was bad. "He just pulled a tear off!" I don't like his show either, so maybe I'm just a hater, but his announcing performance was terrible. 

I am not a fan of his show either, but he was decent, IMO . 

Is does take a while to get to suss out each other's style, 2 races in and they had it nailed on . Refreshing lack of stats and background BS , just talking about the racing stuff. 

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deadking wrote:
Really surprise I haven’t seen a thread on this yet however, I was extremely impressed with the synergy these two guys had. Macalpine really held his...

Really surprise I haven’t seen a thread on this yet however, I was extremely impressed with the synergy these two guys had. Macalpine really held his own with his knowledge of actual riding/racing and of what they were doing. His pure excitement along with Blair‘s made the war that was going on in that 450 main even that much more exciting. Very refreshing and I would really like to see these two do more together. One of the best combos I’ve heard in a long time. 

What are your thoughts? 

philG wrote:

Anyone using the word 'synergy'  is a twat. 

But that was the best combo in WSX so far. 

One of yer more intelligent responses, Phil. Thnx

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12/15/2025 12:32pm

Compared to rc and dicky anybody sounds incredible for realz... 

Daniel was on point and sending it... Jase tried keeping up.... 

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Almost forgot … called it.

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12/16/2025 12:40pm
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I liked it.  Was great.   But I think a full season of that combo would probably get bad quick.. bring it on for the odd...

I liked it.  Was great.   But I think a full season of that combo would probably get bad quick.. bring it on for the odd race imo 

You might be on to something here.

Even the really good broadcast teams have some irritating tendencies.  You pick up on them after a while and you just notice the negative more and more. 

If you keep things fresh with different combos, you get less sick of hearing the same crap all the time.  Maybe instead of trying to get the perfect team to do every race, get a good group of 8 or 10 peeps and rotate combo's on the regular.

Sort of like that outdoor season when it was a different (former moto) color guy with Weeg every week.  That worked really well.

I like Jase's voice.  Sometimes his podcast grates to me.  I thought he did a good job on the air, but also there were some "deer in the headlights" moments where he seemed to freeze and fail to fill the silence effectively.  I suspect with more reps, that would all go away.

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12/16/2025 1:11pm
Tommy Searle did pretty good in Sweden announcing.
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12/16/2025 1:18pm

Jace did alright. DB is really good and carried him and that's fine and completely expected. Nothing wrong with that.

I think the biggest difference is no Ralph. He's out of control. The shouting, cutting everyone off etc. It's like he's trying to not to be outshined in the booth. It's strange. 

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12/16/2025 1:22pm Edited Date/Time 12/16/2025 1:23pm

Y'all ain't seriously giving "mad props" to the announcers that sounded like the average moto podcast of buddies that no one listens to, right?

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12/16/2025 3:51pm
Rosso391 wrote:

Y'all ain't seriously giving "mad props" to the announcers that sounded like the average moto podcast of buddies that no one listens to, right?

Thanks god I’m not the only one.


Get ride of Jase, move DB to color analyst and get a British announcer to run play-by-play. 

And get rid of Botox barbie and replace her with Georgia Lindsay. 

And you’ll have a killer team

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12/16/2025 7:11pm

Honestly never can understand why people bitch so much about moto content. Sometimes the announcers do suck, but hey racing is always good even when it isn’t. In a while I think the whole event went really well and I enjoyed watching it all. I didn’t like Gypsy when he first came out but now listen here and there to his content. He gets good guests and I don’t think he does a horrible job and if I did I would just restrain from listening. 

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12/17/2025 2:06am

I thought they worked well together. I was impressed with Jase. He didn’t seem nervous. 

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