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Just watched the coverage of Daytona on Youtube.
Enjoyed the lites race and congrats to Blake Baggett on his dominating win.
When Erin interviewed him on the podium you could tell he was soo "pumped" to have won.
Erin then asked Justin Barcia an interesting question about the toughness of the track, which he totally ingnored answering and just spouted the speil of thanking his sponsors!
Sorry, but his answer just made him look stupid to thousands of TV viewers.
Somebody please get him some media training, so he listens to the questions asked, can craft an interesting answer and work his sponsor thankyou's into his reply, naturally like RV and James answer.
Enjoyed the lites race and congrats to Blake Baggett on his dominating win.
When Erin interviewed him on the podium you could tell he was soo "pumped" to have won.
Erin then asked Justin Barcia an interesting question about the toughness of the track, which he totally ingnored answering and just spouted the speil of thanking his sponsors!
Sorry, but his answer just made him look stupid to thousands of TV viewers.
Somebody please get him some media training, so he listens to the questions asked, can craft an interesting answer and work his sponsor thankyou's into his reply, naturally like RV and James answer.
But then again I had some so I could buy beer with my fake id when I was his age.
But it wasnt fugly like his.
And I was still pulling tang with my social skills I learned in a place called public school.
But fuck it. The kid rides a dirt bike and shreds. I say let him do as he wants and he can learn from his experiences.
They just sorta say what they want to.
I can remember CP being asked questions every now and and he would just sorta ignore the question and talk about what he wanted to talk about.
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It really is THE dumbest thing I know about this sport! It´s sad, pathetic and dumb, all at the same time. And after the little sponsor name dropping game ends, we go straight to more commercials! It´s a pathetic way to promote anything, really.
They should take a look at how Luongo does it. It´s tasteful, not annoying, and we actually care who these companies are. It´s very professional and done the way MotoGP and F1 does it.
At the very least take a look at how Bagget did it: the guy promoted himself and his sponors in a VERY good way last Saturday - without even mentioning them I might add!
At least he didn't whine and cry like Bagget did the week before when he got third.
I think the lumber jack look suits him. it makes him stand apart from the rest of the guys.
He was hurting and he just wanted off the podium.
when;
A) you didn't hear the question
b) forgot the question asked
c) don't want to answer it
Would you rather he say " it was a team effort and I just go out and give 110 % every day"
I think Barcia was hurting and just didn't feel like talking about his wrist and dealing with Erin's always interersting line of questioning ... how he looks is just fine with me, he is just having a little fun and really all that matters is what happened on the track.
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It takes a good 30 seconds just to say the name of these series: "Monster Energy AMA supercross and the FIM World supercross championship"" etc. Sounds dumb, and you can tell the commentators are really careful about saying the title sponsor in every mention too.
Media training is not that hard and can be done in two days. I took one of these classes this year and its amazing how stupid you look and sound on TV when you watch it back. Ummmmm, Ummmm, seems to be the things you say over and over. At the end of the class you are much better and you learn to get your message out no matter what question they ask you.
The billy goat thing does look funny, but who cares, he is a MX rider and they are not supposed to like like Beaver Cleaver.
Being different makes it more interesting, like I said earlier, it makes him stand out.
Shit, we're talking about him!
By the time a riders brain catches up with there age they are retired.
Canard is really good and Stewart has come along way. The list is very small.
IMO, RV is the worst ever on the podium.. He is like a deer looking into headlights. Theres nothing there.
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