Has there been a recent personnel change at superbikeplanet.com?
I don’t know if anyone else noticed, but to me, the stories written by “Staff” has been more negative, rumor like and very unlike the superbikeplanet I have been reading for nearly a decade.
The articles used to be very informative, were free of the usual Monday morning quarterback themes, as if they were written by someone who had been in the industry for decades.
Now they sound (read) more like the stuff that can be found in motorcycle magazines especially around Europe.
May be its just me, but I have noticed a big change (degradation of subject matter and content)
Dean has made his site the TMZ of motorcycle racing. I noticed it a while back. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's just sad.
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Dean has made his site the TMZ of motorcycle racing. I noticed it a while back. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's just sad.
You know I almost used the letters TMZ in my original post, but decided to put it differently - but yes, I agree there has been a noticable change over the last few moths - May be that attracts more viewers, but the level of content is surely on the way down.
Benn reading it since basically inception and TBH I haven't really paid that much attention. I have recently gotten into their podkasts and find them excellent.
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Benn reading it since basically inception and TBH I haven't really paid that much attention. I have recently gotten into their podkasts and find them excellent.
Their content seems about the same as usual, and I've been listening to the older podcasts as well this week. Some of the ones from previous seasons are unintentionally amusing when you know how things ended up, but they have a lot of inside info that makes it worthwhile.
My guess, chaulk it up to experience. Eventually no matter how much of a "dream" a job is, it is still a job and the realities of producing a product never live up to the fantasy. I doubt any of us have the same level of enthusiam and more importantly naivety we had when we began our careers. That is to say, it is not that they do not still enjoy the job but that they have grown up a bit and perhaps yes become a little jaded in the process.
But if they are a bit jaded are they justified? I think they are.
Soup has been around a heck of a long time and seen the best and worst of motorcycle racing. They are rabid in their love of motorcycle racing and we are not in the heydays of the sport. The racing today compared to the heydays of the 500GP era (Schwantz, Rainey, Doohan, Lawson etal) and WSC (Edwards, Foggy Bayliss, Haga etal) are pale comparisons. If one has been a longtime race fan and truly honest, even the Rossi era sucked. That is not a critism of Rossi BTW, it is just that like Mladin in the AMA until Spies came along and presented a real challenge it was rudimentary, the racing was decidedly onesided. MGP cannot thank Rossi enough for bringing up the level of the show with his personality and his racing. Now with Rossi in the doldrums, Stoner (potentially) leaving, and more importantly the manufacturers moving towards less technical toys I must admit what does Soup have to be excited and overly positive about?
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Originally Posted by Busy Little Shop The [fact] that the RC45 was a "relative failure" is what matters most...
My guess, chaulk it up to experience. Eventually no matter how much of a "dream" a job is, it is still a job and the realities of producing a product never live up to the fantasy. I doubt any of us have the same level of enthusiam and more importantly naivety we had when we began our careers. That is to say, it is not that they do not still enjoy the job but that they have grown up a bit and perhaps yes become a little jaded in the process.
But if they are a bit jaded are they justified? I think they are.
Soup has been around a heck of a long time and seen the best and worst of motorcycle racing. They are rabid in their love of motorcycle racing and we are not in the heydays of the sport. The racing today compared to the heydays of the 500GP era (Schwantz, Rainey, Doohan, Lawson etal) and WSC (Edwards, Foggy Bayliss, Haga etal) are pale comparisons. If one has been a longtime race fan and truly honest, even the Rossi era sucked. That is not a critism of Rossi BTW, it is just that like Mladin in the AMA until Spies came along and presented a real challenge it was rudimentary, the racing was decidedly onesided. MGP cannot thank Rossi enough for bringing up the level of the show with his personality and his racing. Now with Rossi in the doldrums, Stoner (potentially) leaving, and more importantly the manufacturers moving towards less technical toys I must admit what does Soup have to be excited and overly positive about?
+1
The racing isn't exciting anymore. At least when comparing it to races of 15+ years ago.
Soup seems about the same, lately, big change came with the advent of the DMG AMA if I remember correctly.
And Larry managed to work the RC45, namely his, into this thread.
Business as usual.
Soup seems about the same, lately, big change came with the advent of the DMG AMA if I remember correctly.
And Larry managed to work the RC45, namely his, into this thread.
Business as usual.
Agreed, there definitely was a big change with the DMG / AMA move. The taint in and around that seems to continue to scratch at the Soup staff.
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Originally Posted by Busy Little Shop The [fact] that the RC45 was a "relative failure" is what matters most...
Didn't NASBIKE pull Dean's press credentials a few years ago because he bashed the series so much?
I remember there was a lot of talk around that for Dean and others, not sure whatever came of it. A big part of the problem in and around the AMA DMG debacle was the lack of information coming from the principals which only served to feed the rumour beast.
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Has there been a recent personnel change at superbikeplanet.com?
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