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Tonight was special. I watched a broadcast of the incredible sport of supercross without cringing multiple times, without using the mute button, without using fast forward, and without wanting to gouge my eyes out everytime a certain millennial lumberjack showed up on screen. I had lost all hope before this, a sense of relief has washed over me now.
...but yeah, it was good broadcast. Just too bad about the cookie cutter tracks for the last two races. Especially after how awesome Atlanta was.
Track - C-
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Agreed on all fronts with the OP on the broadcast, best it’s been all year, even with Rickys flubs which are kind of entertaining anyway.
One can always find something to complain about if thats your interest BUT I’m thankful SX is on to watch, and thankful they put another actual racer in the booth!
Daniel was calling out first turn action in real time, correctly naming racers etc, pointing out subtle nuances, such as how and why Jett Lawrence gapped immediately with a crisp perfectly timed shift, putting us in the action as it was happening, not later with a poorly timed replay!
Daniel also kept setting RC up to jump in with his insight perfectly too! The booth commentary was smooth and insightful for the first time this season with no break in flow to answer a dumb question or explain some inane issue! Tremendous job Daniel Blair!
While its true that maybe RC isn’t quite as polished as he might have been if he’d skipped becoming the greatest of all time, gone to school and got a degree to be a broadcaster, I can’t help but enjoy his excitement and enthusiasm when something happens on the track and he breaks into an emotional response, EXACTLY the same way I do when I see it happening!
RC is a racer through and through to his core, and he is trying really hard to do a first class job as a broadcaster too, I can easily overlook his occasional mispronounced word or other minor error to have his exuberance and experience as part of my SX viewing!
The same can be said for Jeremy Albrecht too!
He will get more polished as a broadcaster with time and practice BUT even if its never as perfect as a formally trained person, I’ll take his ACTUAL in the trenches pro mechanic experience and insight over a perfectly polished delivery from a guy that could NOT tell a two-stroke from a
four-stroke any day!
Salt Lake one was the most enjoyable SX race on TV this year and the first one I didn’t mute or FF at some point!
Great job DB, RC & J-Bone! More of this please!
https://youtu.be/z3EF1NB4X0U
The screeching voice though.... the mask just makes it worse.
Jenny Taft had a natural rapport with the riders...even when the cameras were not rolling. Ashley Reynard seems to have those qualities too.
Hats off to the crew, on or behind the camera that let this happen. Blair and J-bone were the standouts!
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