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So….with 4 kids all very in to many sports, our TV had sports of all types playing for hours a day. My main sport is SX/MX. Watching and riding. SX/MX reporters are by far the least professional. They talk about themselves, and make themselves the story a disturbing amount of the time they talk. I did this, and I told a rider he should try this, and I am the best. It’s really weird. You just don’t see that in other sports.
BUT… that is our sport. My oldest son, in his mid 30s, is an avid golfer. When I join him and his golf friends, it is out of place for me. Then I go ride with my riding friends and as we are taking breaks, we sit around and act like boys….up to someone farting as they pass by your head. After the last lap the beverages come out. My point? We stay young doing the original extreme sport and I think we never completely grow up doing it. Maybe our reporters reflect that.
We pretend to be adults in our daily lives. One of my riding buddies actually ran across me at work and he had to look at me like 5 times and started laughing. The professional look is such a contrast to the track.
It could be Lewis just meant the 'debrief' with Eli was short. I can see that. Eli doesn't talk much, it was a really bad race, the title is mostly out of reach now, and Tomac is taking the blame for it himself, telling Ian the bike setup is fine and that he needs to 'work on himself'.
That would be a very short debrief. Maybe nothing malicious at all. Clearly, Eli took it another way, though. There may be more to the Eli/Lewis history than we know.
We could always get the media to do pods and what not and just read the results and sponsors from the page. Would that make it better for you?
You're complaining that they are talking about anything other than the black and white.
Not a bad idea Shred. We'd certainly learn more about what's going on with the rider than we get from the moto 'media'.
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Totally agree Class all the way
I mean I’m not sure I expected anything different. But you vitards are insane.
All I’ve gathered from this thread is
- all foreigners are bad, except for the ones that aren’t in America
- if anyone wants to ask a rider a questions they must first show they have won a supercross main event.
- people are truly offended by any journalist or reporter that isn’t nutriding every rider.
- people are truly offended by any journalist or reporter nutriding any rider
- talking about motocross is gay.
- predictions are gay.
- any tweet that isn’t a tweet from Eli is gay.
- shred thinks farting on your friends is core mx lore
did I miss anything?
I’m excited for LVK to unpack this thread this week
Incredible work
This thread became an absolute shit show so fast! Eli threw shade at Lewis......... MATTHES IS A FAT ABOMINATION!!!!!1!!1!!!!
Eli is overly sensitive when it comes to media these days, looks very petty. When he gives so little and is so guarded, you are asking for speculation.
The guy looked absolutely unreal to start the season, had the red plate. Then has been average as fuck, with little to no fight for position when he ‘should’ pounce on opportunities (Hunter going down). With no rhyme or reason.
Lewis knows people in the pits. KTM flew the damn guy to their HQ for a tour a year or so ago. He’s not just a clickbait YouTube moron.
IMO it’s fair game, Eli should know that by now.
Simply an observation.
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This is a fascinating take. Very insightful (no sarcasm). It definitely tracks with the unfiltered shenanigans that occur here on the daily…
Just heard Lewis speak on Pulp. No one said explicitly that Eli had barely spoken to KTM. Lewis inferred that that was the case based on what people around Eli had said. Anyone hoping that Lewis will retire from Moto journalism or he'll be deported because of his Tweet will be very disappointed.
Aussie? Please tell me this is ragebait. You can't be that stupid, right. Right??
Lewis is one of the finest at what he does in this sport, appreciate almost everytime he writes/comes on camera, surprised there’s so much disdain for him in this thread. Eli firing off that tweet is so entertaining lmao
Also just finally got around to listening to yesterdays pulp, is it just me or was Matthes’ take painful? Calling someone a Hack in response to them saying something not true is not “crossing a line”
I don't know why you receive down votes you seem level-headed and I'm sure your posts are well thought-out. Maybe try more emojis?
agreed. I rag on the "media" because they frustrate the hell out of me, but his questions are honest, transparent, and are actually the ones most of us fans want to have answered. Can't believe people are piling on the guy cause he's damn good at what he does.
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Lewis does a good job. As a fan I could care less though about the obsession over the riders. I’m more interested in the bikes, than Eli’s team discussion or what tire he uses.
Wheeler is excellent.
The Brits actually have one of the very best journalists, after all.
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I totally get that fans etc, are going to fill in the blanks. Hell, I do it all the time as a fan. But I think its a bit out of touch for a media personality to report something as fact, when it isn't. I highly doubt that Eli has not talked with KTM. Ian may say he hasn't really said anything because he hasn't got a straight answer, but hell, even Eli may not even know what is going on for all we know. If he knew exactly what was wrong, you wouldn't just "go back to square one" with the bike. I reserve judgement here depending on who's full of shit.
Two things for sure: Eli is not happy right now, and Lew is officially on his shit list.
I'm just here for the motocross stuff.
I like Lewis when he talks. He makes sense and has a voice that keeps me interested in what he is talking about. The issue I am having lately, is that my immediate thought is to take it all with a grain of salt because his takes are EXTREMELY biased. you can't really believe the words that are coming out of his mouth as he has taken things out of context (like this instance) and applies his own "twist" on what is seemingly every fact he reports on. The absence of any critical Chase reports show this in spades. I have fact checked every single Lewis interview I have heard this season, and most of them have some degree of mistruth or "stretching of fact" in them. It's like listening to certain news outlets.
I strongly downvote the first sentence of that last post.
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Lol
Now that Lewis and Chase are doing job swap, he can have Chase interview Eli next 🤣🤣🤣🤣
we need this to happen,
While Lewis does have cringy moments, most of you are missing the sarcasm and reverse argument humour of the British mindset.
I do agree he could tone himself down a little bit for a while, if not ever, but a lot of what he says and does is quite funny to us "non" Americans.
Would not surprise me if this was an Eli burn in the same fashion.....
I guess we need to read this then lol
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