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He is very bad,
Nothing personal against Ralph, but it is glaringly obvious that he is sub par.
But everyone is entitled to their opinion. I just don't get it.
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He’d rather talk about riders taking up badminton, glares on tv screens in riders new houses without blinds, walking alligators, going 4x4ing in their spare time, did I mention he’s only 16 years old, Ricky ??!!?
Ralph’s horrible at calling the actual racing, rarely even acknowledges there’s racing happening, when he does - he doesn’t realize that when the clock hits zero there’s still 1- 2 laps to go depending where on the track they are. If he’d been watching the race as opposed to screaming about his fun fact bullshit he might be able to keep up, but makes no effort at actually calling the race and only about screaming about manufacturing drama and fun facts.
If that service is poor, I can say so, and I expect to be heard. So all the shit direction, stupid repeats of stuff we see, and all the rest of the crap production, I am paying for that.
So it needs to be right.
As has been said in other threads, the SME in the truck needs changing, but as the whole thing is a buddy network, its not happening. The fact that it has been how it is for so long tells me nothing will change.
I was optimistic when they pulled Leigh Diffey in, but its gone back to how it was , which is a shame.
No. I won’t. The production is horrible. The announcing is bad. What we see week after week, season after season is bad. If I’m watching a sport I shouldn’t have to accept 4 slow motion replays during the first lap. Missed passes for the lead. Wrong numbers/names being called. Wrong laps and so on...... .
If you order a ham sandwich and are served turkey instead, do you just happily accept it and move on? Or do you speak up? That is what the OP did.
We shouldn’t have to accept “good enough”. It can be and should be better.
I guarantee you that just about every person on here modifies and improves their bikes in some way beyond stock. Why? We want better than what is being offered. This is no different. Ralph may be a great guy but, he’s not good at what he does. Neither is the production crew.
Continuing to use Ralph is settling for mediocrity.
Ralph is fine he is just commentating what he is shown/told to
Bondo on the other hand has been showing us Holeshot replays during heated battles, sometimes 2 or 3 times in slowmo. Same with replays. You can hear the let down in RCs voice when hes expecting a replay of something awesome they just saw, and then they cut to a replay of some other incident. We can all pull specific examples of terrible production decisions during Race Time, just watch any supercross main this year.
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Traditionally the announcer (Ralph) calls the action, whilst the color commentator (RC) talks about the track, conditions, etc. So everytime you hear Ralph gush about Jet only being 16 years old or CR22 retiring, he's overstepping the boundaries of his duty and doing RC's job.
Again, this is all pretty basic stuff you can learn at community college.
"Here's Steph Curry in his blue and yellow playing shirt. If he makes this free throw, Ricky, it will be worth ONE point!"
During stephs time away from the court he likes to go surfing with his friends on surfboards. Look at Him ride that wave right to the free throw line.
Ralph was barely an XR250 when he started. He’s gotten worse over the last 12-15 years and is now a Pep Boys pitbike at best.
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