Moto X Racing at X Games?

[RebelDawg]

Maybe the X Games are just getting too big for thier britches. At first, I watched them to see a lot of jackasses that were much more brave and reckless than I am do things that I had never imagined, hell, even if I did think it up, I thought too much of myself to attempt them. That being said, I still find these games interesting.

Every year it seems like the games go out of their way to find some new "sport" to keep up with the times. I remember watching the first step-up competition and beind blown away how you could combine dirt bikes and olympic high jump bars and some people were like, hey, I should totally try to do that! That was neat to watch... and short. Like many of the sports in the games, the fun of it is that they don't last long enough to bore of them. I can watch a guy skate around and do different tricks for a few minutes, especially if he busts his ass.

Now they are planning to add motorcross to the games. What the hell? This sport is fun to watch, but perhaps better suited for a local agri-center. I do not think I will spend the summer watching a dirtbike version of NASCAR with a few added ramps and bumps. There will be 16 racers in the first round, 4 seeds of 4 racers. Wow, so not only are we going to watch people go around a track for one round, but this will likely go on for hours. The winner of each will go to the finals, while the three others will go to the second round in 2 heats of 6. OK, I was just thinking I needed to watch the losers race again because I have way too much time on my hands.

So at the summer job, when I need water cooler talk, I can be sure to say "yeah, I DVR'ed the nuts out of motorcross on the X games because that is just how cool I am. Let's talk about this foolishness. Did you see the people who lost in the first round race against each other? Oh my god, that was awesome."

I am not anti motorcross, I just do not see a need for it in the fast paced world of the X games. Next time, when the X games want to add a sport, I hope they will think it through a little better. What do ya'll think?

[Bdunkadunk]

All I have to say is, synchronized roller blading.


Word.

[RebelDawg]

I would still like to see head first street luge... maybe one day... We all have our dreams.

[Shoeless Joe]

Its going to seem like I'm dodging the topic a bit, but the reality is that the only reason the X Games get the TV exposure that it does is because ESPN owns a stake in it. Whenever ESPN (or The Walt Disney Co, really) owns something, it gets shoved down our throats on every single outlet that the megacorp owns: ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, and, if you're one of the priveleged, ESPNU and ESPN 360. I read an article by the outgoing ESPN ombudsman (an impartial 3rd party hired by ESPN for 2 years to give unbiased feedback) and that was a major point that he wrote about. He was tired of watching the X Games and Arena League Football on ESPN simply because Disney owns them. Show us what we want to see, not just what you have an interest in.

Reason #21,536 that I dislike ESPN.