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Whatever they do hopefully the industry and riders will drop the word "Coast" when referring to the East or West Regions. Always weird to hear of a race in Texas, Minnesota, Indiana, Tennessee, Colorado etc... referred to an East or West Coast race.

But those guys really want those Half Championships.

Long overdue and makes more sense than ever with riders using Supercross Futures as a stepping stone to be ready for the 250 class.

Its super simple as i have always held this belief, since you have guys who are amazing 125/250f riders and guys who are great 250/450 riders I personally want to see the best pilots of both. With that said, 1. Take Futures to the next step, futures east/west. (Cant be over the age of 20) 2. 250f class is now the 2nd premiere level. Runs the full series. No age limit, no championship limit. (If you cant find the budget then leave) This is the best of the best of the 250f riders. (you can be a lifer in this...

It's the new Mid Life Crisis cut.

Before Daytona, Bondo calls the ABC producers of the Indy 500 for advice. Bondo: "How can we make the broadcast worst?" ABC producer: "Split screen the leader on the last lap with their brother, mother, or spouse." Bondo: "Genius."

Do they just party in the broadcast truck? They sure miss a lot of shit and I assume that they are all just tipping back a round of shots or something. I said I couldn’t do Bondo’s job but I’m really starting to think I can.

SX broadcast always makes me think about the movie Idiocracy with all those sponsor logos everywhere and not focussing on the sport at all. In other sports they're trying to integrate commercials as subtle as possible but in SX they don't give a shit

I think they really want a paycheck. When Savatgy was still in the top ten and had barely made enough purse money to pay for his plane tickets, the incentive to stop milking the cow loses out. As long as the OEM's are willing to pay for 250 titles, and the contracts are for more than 450 purses, why would anyone cut their own throat?The sanctioning bodies and promoters won't fix it because basically, they don't have to. They don't just get the milk for free, they get to eat the cow too.

Agreed .

It seems like James is DGAF and says what he thinks and has fun with it whereas RC seems to worry what everyone thinks and/or if he is going to upset anyone.

"I think Carmichael is plenty tolerable and since he changed the sport and has made such an enormous impact on the sport, he should get a life-long mulligan." Really? We can't just put the best people in the booth? We have to mulligan in a guy who offers no insight and stumbles over his sentences, because he was fast on a motorcycle?

If RC could quit missing a shift mid sentence and just let it flow and dial back the faux excitement he would improve by leaps and bounds. Add to that calling the race rather than going off on a soliloquy on lap 1 about the intangible qualities of so and so it would be a HUGE improvement!

Boy, some of you just love to gush don’t you? 😄 james is decent. Average at best. Art Eckman is the epitome of how someone in the booth does their job.