As if this trainwreck of a tour better known as the Mountain Dew Tour couldn't get any worse, now comes word that the Mountain Dew Tour's first stop, held annually in Bucky Lasek's hometown of Baltimore, along with the stop in Cleveland is being replaced with single-sport skate and BMX events in Boston and Chicago.

The Windy City will kick things off with a BMX-only event the weekend of June 26th.  A month later, Beantown will host a skateboarding-only event.  Freestyle MotoX has been eliminated from the first two stops, and will make its debut in Portland on August 14th.  The Mountain Dew Tour will then go to Salt Lake City (you're picking this shithole over the Bay Area?) before culminating with a grand finale in Orlando the weekend of October 15th to determine Mountain Dew Cup winners in skate, BMX and MotoX.

In all honesty, replacing stops in Baltimore and Cleveland with Boston and Chicago is a very smart move (although the Mountain Dew Tour's excuse is a scheduling conflict with the Balimore Orioles) because of the market size upgrade.  Plus, moving to bigger markets will help offset the losses Mountain Dew is suffering after losing two key sponsors: Right Guard and Panasonic.

I'm still fuming over their decision to eliminate the San Jose tour stop, but hey, I'll forever have a NorCal bias.  You're keeping around Salt Lake F*cking City though?  You're trying to tell me there's more of an action sports influence in the land of the mormons than in Silicon Valley?  The Mountain Dew Tour marketing peeps still have a long way to go to get this thing right (at least they've stepped in the right direction with the Winter version).