yeah, we use wisconsin for open water for three months a year and then come back to civilization.....

That is true about LSU, but how can you tell an 18YO kid that comes from a poor up-bringing to turn down $20 million to go to the NBA?...You cannot....and they SHOULD take the money because God knows that there is nothing guaranteed in this life....I hate it too, but that is the world we live in...Leinart tried to be cute ad stay in school and he went from Pick #1 to #11 and now has to play for the crappy Cardinals....I bet Adrian Peterson is also wishing he would have went Pro last year...look at him now....theres no guarantees....just like Tiki retiring at the end of the year...he's made his cash and is getting out at the top of his game before he suffers a life-altering injury - or risk of....can't really blame him I guess...

Oh, and I hate basketball anyway.....too many egos in general...not a team game anymore....I was raised a football fan and that is all anyone at LSU really cares about.....basketball is just a place holder in the years between football and baseball....

You'd be surprised at the number of people in Baton Rouge who could have cared less about LSU's basketball team making the Final Four this past year....there were more people keeping up with the football team's recruiting when the asketball team was playing last year.....

Joel,

Where in Ocala are you? My parents have a house there. Ya working at one of the farms there? I like Ocala.


And what is with the FL bashing Bellamy? NOT ALL people in FL live in trailers. :mad: :D :mad: :D

I live off of 200 in one of the gated communities...I like it.

As for my job, I work for the FTBOA (office is basically next door to OBS on SW 60th) and I am the chief editor of Wire to Wire - the daily racing digest circulated around Central Florida

You are near my parents. They are in Silver Springs Shores. New house in there. They didn't want a big yard nor a home owners association so they went out of the gated communties. They love it up there.

That is cool! I wanted my mom to get a job at a horse place, but noooooo she had to go find a job at a law firm. :)

Your job sounds exciting. I am going to have to have my mom get me that paper. :)

It is more of a magazine format. She can find them daily at just about and if the convenient stores in town...most of them are subscribed and circulated by the Star Banner with the daily newspaper. :)

I am going to be up there at Thanksgiving. I will look for one. Hoping to visit a farm up there while I am there. :)

I'll be here for Thanksgiving...feel free to PM :)

The majority of Floridians DON'T live in trailers. I found it humorous that he said that. LMAO

Believe me, I've been through Arkansas enough times to KNOW where the trailor capital of the world is....Plus, I think its required that you have to be close to tornado alley to actually be dubbed as a "trailor zone"....Seems like everytime I look up at the news reporting a tornado that ripped through Oklahoma or Arkansas or Indiana - I'll be damned if it didn't cruise straight through a trailor park community...its almost like clockwork

I never knew there were that many trailor communities until I watched the weather channel.....

Well, Florida obviously has trailer park communities, but the majority of the people living in them are the snow-birds that come down during the winters. Hardly the class of people I would call "trailer trash." :D Besides, Ocala isn't half bad, albeit a bit slow at times...

they don't but it's either a) locals -the epitome of white trash (trailer ppl) b) retired ppl or C) tranisents (hobos) and then D) snow birds or ppl like Joel
by far the most potically corrupt state in the union
not so funny now is it?

So, are you insinuating that Joel lives in a trailer?

And excuse me, but I would be willing to put money on the fact that Kentucky has a ton more people that I would classify as "trailer trash." The state of Florida has some of the highest real estate values in the COUNTRY right now. Shiat, you'd have to pay over a hundred grand to even live in a double wide right now. :rolleyes: I could care less... I'd live in a trailer if it meant that I could have my land and my horses. LOL Does that make me trailer trash?

I'm not insinuating anything about Joel
and I know the cost of land in FLA
and I also know the cheapest place to buy land in FLA
and that's in the Ocala-Gainesville area, and why?
I'm not sure it really makes you trailer trash
but if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, well...

Heck your even Closer to our Farm Right Behind Queen of Peace Catholic Church off 200 in the Ocala Horse Complex.

What farm are you at Round Pen? I want to visit some when I visit up there.

YOU MUST BE FROM THE NORTH. Arrogant bastards they all are... :eek: :D

Don't assume you know what Floridians are like. I have lived here my whole life. I can assure you that I do not live in a trailer, nor am I trailer trash. And no you don't know the cheapest place to buy property right now because it is not Ocala-Gainesville area.

I knows where the land be cheap but I ain't telling ya cause ya be callin me trashy...

And why is Joel in a category all by himself? :mad:

And why exactly am I white trash? I am well educated, intelligent, hard working, etc... Why am I trashy?

the correct term for trailers is actually 'tornado bait' :D

I sent you a PM

Actually, that's incorrect. The Marion and Alachua county areas are NOT where the land is cheapest. :D

If you're calling me trailer, go right ahead. It has no effect on me at all... my priorities in life are evidentally different than yours, and that's fine. By the way, I don't live in a trailer. ;) It would be nice if you researched this kind of thing BEFORE you posted.

Round Pen, do you mind sending me one too? Curiosity killed this cat... :D

I Live here in Ocala Myself And have just been ignoring your post but you really have shown that you know absolutely nothing about the Ocala Area if you think land is cheap here. I started laughing really hard when i read your post.

Go ahead try to buy 10 acres of land here and see what it will cost you.

yes they are!
you don't know~!
ok, sorry for the insult, you're just being difficult

That is why I made the Northerner comment. No one likes when people assume things based on a few people they meet that everyone is like that.

By the way, prices in Marion and Alachua counties are BOOMING right now. My parents home increased in value by 20% in a few months. No way is that the cheapest place to buy homes and land.

Darling, I've lived in Florida my entire life and both my mother AND my sister work as loan officers here in the Central Florida area, and I am TELLING you, that isn't where the land is cheapest. I am begging you... do the research. You're making yourself look ridiculous.

duh the everglades has the cheapest land.

let me fill you FLA ppl in on a little tidbit
your racing is horrible
your breeding is dreadful
and your land is overpriced
your public schools are a disaster
in all honesty, you don't have 1 thing on KY
expect the ability to play golf 1-2 more months of the year

disney world > kentucky kingdom

Racing is horrible... NOPE.
Breeding is dreadful... NOPE.
Land is overpriced... YEP.
Public schools are a disaster... YEP.
Golf? Yes, golfing is great down here. Do you like to play? (I do.)

And who won the FLorida Derby this year? OH YEAH! THE Kentucky Derby winner! Yeah, we suck. Thanks for letting me know that I suck. I really appreciate it. I am glad that someone finally told me.

My old boss moved to FL from CT just so he could play golf year round. That actually made me laugh.

I'm from the North...you too should watch your blanket statements.

I'm not surprised... :D

Personally, Florida isn't where I want to be forever, but I can think of nastier places to live. South Carolina (Darlington area) had more trailers than any other place I've seen. And we're not talking about nice trailers... my sister even took pictures, she was so amused. :eek:

hey, I never said you suck:)
I digress, seems like you Floridians are stubborn as h...:rolleyes:
just don't put Jeb in the White House

that's hilarious, the Kentucky bred, Barbaro

Afleet Alex would have been a much better example, you see he was a Florida bred.

He raced in the Florida Derby... ;)

Coach said that Florida racing sucked. Nice try though, Bill...

I was making a statement like you were about Floridians and talking out of my butt. Hence the smilie grin after it. I wasn't serious, just trying to make a point.

He was saying our racing sucked to, not just the breeding. Lots of good horses race in FL. It can't suck that much.

please elaborate, that was my first post here

and of course a superior horse won a bad prep....he could have won the Wood, SA Derby too. I'll leave the Bluegrass out, don't think anyone was beating Sinister Minister that day.