Someday I’ll Blog Again
Lest you think I’ve been abducted or have run away with the circus I thought I should post a little something.
I’ve been busy over here crunching numbers for SAFC’s first reports and I’m happy to say that it’s going well!
The submissions have been well thought out and well intentioned for the most part with no real smart ass or useless contributions. The effort is definitely off to a great start and I’ll post more about the reports and some of our upcoming plans soon (after I get done with the reports… just visualize me with a digital wheel-barrow taking lots of piles of data from one place to another and then deciding it all should go in 3 separate piles elsewhere to then change my mind again).
A few little things that have jumped out at me recently…
Jess Jackson schools us all on the classy way to trash talk:
I would love to meet Big Brown. It would be great for the industry and the fans. But all we can do is take one race at a time. I don’t know where it would be. I suspect they might retire him before we ever get a chance to meet. (If we do) I prefer it be on dirt and at a mile and a quarter.
Did anyone else think this statement by Paul Pompa was odd:
The Woodward isn’t in our thinking right now,” said Pompa, a 25% owner of Big Brown. “The timing isn’t right for the horse. Mike Iavarone (of co-owner IEAH Stables) and I discussed it, and we’re not going to Saratoga. There is no reason to rush him back. He’s coming off a tough race.
It was a tough race in part because he was coming off a break. That race probably did him a lot of good as he actually fought for his win. Many others have made far more concise and astute readings of this situation than I could so I’ll leave it at that, but that sentiment seemed completely ass backwards to me.
And finally, Lava Man’s 2005 Hollywood Gold Cup recently popped up on YouTube so I added it to my Lava Man post. It’s an incredible race, he really blows them away at something like 6-1 where it seemed obvious he was somewhat disregarded.
Back to the digital wheel-barrow.
Posted by dana on Aug 07 2008
Filed Under: Big Brown, Self Appointed Fan Committee, 2008, Hollywood Gold Cup, Curlin, Lava Man, Racing
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Curlin and Big Brown are a perfect example of why the synthetic tracks are a huge failure in my opinion. If CA had dirt tracks, a meeting between the two would be inevitable. Sythetics quell brilliance and I can’t blame anyone for not wanting to run their big horse over them. Don’t be surprised if the BC is littered with a bunch of nonsensical long shots either.
“The submissions have been well thought out and well intentioned for the most part with no real smart ass or useless contributions.”
Have you not been receiving my comments?
The title of this post sounds like a show tune.
C - can’t argue with that. I’m starting to wonder if maybe Slew’s Tizzy is one of those nonsensical long shots. After I asked you about him he showed up on the work tab at Hollywood and threw a bullet. Since he’s a synthetic specialist I wouldn’t be surprised if they were gonna try to crank him for this spot.
winston - I was trying to be polite! (but seriously I loved the RFID submission)
E - I can’t decide if it should be more Ethel Merman or William Shatner a la ‘It hasn’t happened yet’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3wX1wn-0go&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GnoLJIIS4w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icr71H1nb3Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4JrOxJSvRc
lol—Shatner. The guy stays very young and cool, pretty amazing.
The sniper who took out Ethel in the middle of the second line—that was me.
Mermania.
(reloading)