I love your take that Rut sucks. It’s very informative. But it begs me to ask... what are you actually looking for in a commentator? If as stated it’s their “voice”, what do you want in a voice? Deep? High? Darth Vader?
I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone say that they liked a commentator until either they were in the business for 20yrs or they died, then reflected on how good they were compared to the new guy.
Ricky has improved greatly over the past 2 years. He still gets hung up on his words but he’s improving and using voice in his announcing.
Diffy brings in different vernacular and a different type of excitement. Which is nice.
Todd does a good job of giving information and creating excitement while leading Ricky into what to talk about. I personally think he does the best job.
But back to Rutledge. He does a great job. He brings some comedy to the sport and adds to the production. But the moto people of the world who complain that he sucks don’t realize that a guy like him could potentially bring in new people to the sport. You know our sport that’s dying. Our sport that nobody races anymore on the weekends. Our sport which has tracks that are closing. Before you bash the guy look at it through different lens. A guy like Marty Smith who is a journalist and announcer and commentator is a huge NASCAR guy. But he wrote one of the best articles describing the Masters that I’ve ever read. So in closing, just relax, be happy you have SX on TV, enjoy that they are trying new things and quit complaining all the time.
