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Whoops_Blitzer Added a reply to What if Stewart..

4/15/2015 10:47pm
Here in the real world, Ryan Dungey currently has a legitimate shot at a nine-win season. Now, truly, anything is possible. Not that I mean to argue with you...this time.

Whoops_Blitzer Added a reply to What if Stewart..

4/15/2015 12:37pm
That wasn't on the menu though, right? I think Kawi didn't want JS anymore with Villopoto coming up. A dumbass decision, if it didn't turn out to be so smart. Screw them, anyway. He was great on the '09 'Ha.

Whoops_Blitzer Added a reply to What if Stewart..

4/15/2015 12:20pm
Now here's a topic to shoot my wad over. The JGR detour was almost fatal to Stewart's career. Some pretty nasty thoughts about big scary motorcycles burrowed into his psyche from all the abuse that bike dished out. So deeply was it ingrained that it took over a year, until October 2013, to wash all the doubt from his mind...

Whoops_Blitzer Added a reply to Congrats to Dungey!

4/14/2015 11:41am
Welp, guess I should check in and give a what-up to the Dungemeister. If you'd told me while driving somewhere with you in the passenger seat that by Vegas Ryan Dungey would have more wins than Roczen, Tomac, and Canard put together I would've aimed your half of the car at the nearest bridge abutment. Dude was amazing, and providing...

Whoops_Blitzer Added a reply to Things you hate in daily life. ..

4/10/2015 11:12am
Part of my daily life right now is inching my way through the game Motorstorm. So, Motorstorm. Fuck this game. I'd rather read a dictionary. It has a combined score of 84 on Metacritic and Supercross has a 48, a 36 point difference. Uh--no. (p.s. Supercross' online play was a daily annoyance until I got tired of it and started...

Whoops_Blitzer Added a reply to Is it time to have playoffs?

4/5/2015 1:12pm
Now you're gettin it. The number of points awarded per position is arbitrary. The number of riders qualifying through the heats is arbitrary; it just changed last year. Even heats and LCQ's themselves, as I hope I demonstrated above, are arbitrary. A countdown clock instead of a lap counter. The +2 at the end of a moto. Outsiders to the...

Whoops_Blitzer Added a reply to Josh Sheehan - Triple Backflip

4/4/2015 9:16pm
Actually, if they have a really long, really steep landing (Maddison's landing off the Arch), I guess he won't kill himself. That's probably what they have planned, since, looking at the takeoff, it's not like it's gonna be mid-competition or anything.

Whoops_Blitzer Added a reply to Eli

4/3/2015 12:55pm
You kinda said it in your first sentence: It's hype. He does gets lots of Fastest Lap awards in practice, which is easy to equate with 'raw speed'. So when he goes out and puts down the fastest lap in a main, to back up his practice lap, we say Yeah, that makes sense. When he doesn't get it done...

Whoops_Blitzer Added a reply to Top 5 dirt bike racers of all time.

4/2/2015 1:40pm
Yeah, but who needs racecraft when you can outduel a visibly faster Ryan Villopoto with sheer mediocrity? (Oh shit, I forgot who I'm talking to, here. There's no such thing as 'visibly faster.')

Whoops_Blitzer Added a reply to Is it time to have playoffs?

4/2/2015 11:13am
Regarding your last line, the only reason a rider qualifies through the LCQ is because they didn't get it done in the heats. So we give them a second chance (semis), with pared-down competition, then a third chance with competition pared even further. If a rider crashes or his bike fails, the LCQ says he's deserving of a second chance...