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Are you one of those people who tried to screw Bernie Sanders over the Joe Rogan "endorsement"?
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"It’s frustrating to a guy like tony zhou because he is the best handicapper in the country and never gets the award for it."
The single best thing about this sport...indeed, one of the precious few remaining great things about this sport, is that it doesn't matter what anybody thinks. You do your handicapping. You make your bets. You get your results. Fuc# what anybody thinks
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In addition to all of his other problems, Hoarse Whisperer is the biggest hypocrite on the planet.
With the possible exception of me in the old days, nobody has made more political posts on sheets boards than Hoarse. His specialty was starting strings about the Central Park Jogger case, but he has hit every political topic from Henry Kissinger (about whom he was entirely correct) to Al Gore (t
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From CNBC:
"Long-running trivia game show Jeopardy! will air a multi-night tournament event, “Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time,†in prime time on ABC starting January 7, the show announced on Monday.
The series of matches, hosted by Alex Trebek, will pit against one another the three players who took home the most cash in the game show’s history: Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter and Jam
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"Everything that could be done is being done to make it safer."
Johnny: The best thing you can do to save the sport is to quit "defending" it.
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Short answer is yes. Longer answer requires us to define "best."
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Typical three-act story arc here:
People obsessively try to figure out who the best horses are.
Then the races are run.
Then people say that because of the way the racetrack was playing, being the best horse did not matter.
It is a winning formula for comedy and has been for decades.
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He thinks Baffert is an icon. God help us.
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"But people do deserve to know what might be happening 'behind the curtain'."
This is an odd closing sentence in a post lamenting leaks.
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I think the overarching message of the Meadow book is that if you want to be a winner, you had better come up with something that is not in the Meadow book.
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You think Serling does that job because he enjoys meeting all those wonderful people?
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"Mr Serling also dismissed that 13-1 winner the other day,"
This would be a pretty good opening to a parody of racing message boards.
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I hope that everybody interested in this subject will find a way to read the lifetime past performances of Kochees: slowly, from the bottom up, and in the context of the situation at SA.
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"If the horse is hurt, don’t race him. If you can’t afford to keep him in the barn, sell him. If the horse can’t race without them, retire him."
This will either help or not help.
If it does not help, the sport will be banned.
If it does help, the sport deserved to be banned years ago.
What we are on here is a slow-motion, metaphorical and literal death march. The logi
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"That is in a state that is In shambles."
No problem. CA should just take its budget surplus and buy Kentucky.
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The Breeders' Cup was a terrible idea from the beginning. It tracks almost perfectly with the decline of horse racing. Its very name reeks of fealty to sinister forces. A powerful case can be made for boycotting the damned thing even in the very best of circumstances. If one or two days of horse racing can be such a big deal, horse racing is a deal so small it is hardly worth discussing anyw
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"Do BC entrants only get 5cc of Lasix on race day and NO anti-inflammatories? Not sure I've seen the answer to this one."
House rules, according to today's LA Times.
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"Good Luck" to the BC on this one. If something happens, the blood is on THEIR Hands if something goes wrong...."
This seems like a pretty narrow way to do "blood on their hands" math in horse racing.
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PETA wants horse racing abolished. In pursuing that goal, their biggest mistake is in continuing to focus so much on horse deaths. That opens them up to too much statistical randomness, which will kill their momentum. Instead, they should focus on the cruelty of horses racing with nagging injuries. They should demand that horses be in perfect condition before they are allowed to race.
Santa An
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"The NFL made a dramatic turn in the right direction when they acknowledged the damage to players that concussions were causing."
The NFL does the right thing only after it has exhausted the alternatives. Then it demands credit and expects people not to laugh. Take a look at the Steelers' offensive line in the mid-1970s. You've got these guys (Clack, Kolb, Webster) bench
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"What I do know after owning horses continuously since 1990 in Southern California -- the trainers know. They know when their horses are sound. They know when a horse "has heat" that requires vet inspection. They know when a horse is unsound. They know when a horse's attitude changes -- horse is angry, doesn't eat normally, has diarrhea -- they know everything."
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"one can easily make the case about proportionality of injury to humans vs. horses"
Forget about humans. Add everything up and trace everything to its source, and one can easily make the case that football treats animals much worse than horse racing does.
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I like Barry Meadow, but the editing in that book is so awful that the best way to read it is to read only every third page. If you get confused at some point, back up a page or two.
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Your point is that if you don't get a perfect trip, you won't get a perfect trip?
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From usbets.com:
During his introduction on the show, Trebek needled him with a question about his profession.
“James Holzhauer is from Las Vegas. He is a professional sports gambler. What does that mean, exactly?†Trebek said.
“Oh, I’ll bet on anything,†Holzhauer replied. “Why, are you looking for a little action on the Cup this year? I like the Lightning.â€
“Oh, re
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It is kind of funny. If I am remembering one of his first player interviews correctly, the only thing he hasn't been awesome at on the show is sports betting. Didn't he tell Alex to bet Tampa Bay?
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From 2011:
Posted by: Rich Curtis (IP Logged)
Date: April 18, 2011 12:17PM
The boycott was formal. It was real. I know a lot of people who participated in it--real people with real names who used to bet real money on SA. And Miff is exactly right about the Clueless Clown stuff.
By the way, if you want to hear an interesting interview, go to Steve Byk's radio show of 12-24-2010 (av
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