Rant on...
Ya know...this whole silly season thing with contracts being signed in the middle of a season is just stupid as .... all. I can't think of many (if any) other seasonal sporting arrangement where this type of crap happens as usual course. Give the damn rider the opportunity to run his entire season and judge him on that record. Have contracts go from the start to the end of the calendar year but wait until the end of the season and use the last couple months of the year to figure out who goes where with what contracts.
Nobody remembers or gives a crap about the second half of last season...hell, you were likely riding for someone else and that is old news as far as anybody is concerned anyway and that performance doesn't mean crap in the new season...so you essentially only have what 9 races to prove anything at all...and if you get off to a bad start you are left .... for time to dig yourself out of a hole!? What the ....!?
Can you imagine any other sport where half way through the season people are signing contracts...many with their opposing teams (who you might still have to play against no less!)...how can the quality of play and integrity of the participants be assumed reliable given that situation. Poisoning the water with potential allegiance issues and not judging the rider by a season's worth of work just seems like stupidest thing I have ever heard of.
Rant off.
Ya know...this whole silly season thing with contracts being signed in the middle of a season is just stupid as .... all. I can't think of many (if any) other seasonal sporting arrangement where this type of crap happens as usual course. Give the damn rider the opportunity to run his entire season and judge him on that record. Have contracts go from the start to the end of the calendar year but wait until the end of the season and use the last couple months of the year to figure out who goes where with what contracts.
Nobody remembers or gives a crap about the second half of last season...hell, you were likely riding for someone else and that is old news as far as anybody is concerned anyway and that performance doesn't mean crap in the new season...so you essentially only have what 9 races to prove anything at all...and if you get off to a bad start you are left .... for time to dig yourself out of a hole!? What the ....!?
Can you imagine any other sport where half way through the season people are signing contracts...many with their opposing teams (who you might still have to play against no less!)...how can the quality of play and integrity of the participants be assumed reliable given that situation. Poisoning the water with potential allegiance issues and not judging the rider by a season's worth of work just seems like stupidest thing I have ever heard of.
Rant off.
