Poor Taste ESPN
 

The comments about calling the County Jail and asking if they had ESPN and then following it up with the comment about how important their one phone call would be today was poor taste.

This is in reference to the Curlin connections obviously. Very poor taste and I am shocked that they, the group that was calling this race, showed that side on the air. Very bush league and did not do the industry any favors when it comes to image.

I respectfully disagree. It was refreshing to see people connected to the sport say what they really think for a change, unafraid to possibly upset someone. When I was writing for KentuckyDerby.com, I spoke to a well-known retired jockey for 1/2 hour about the Derby field. I asked him which horse he would choose to ride if given the chance, and he said "Street Sense. No doubt." I asked him if I could print that, and he said "Oh no. No no no no. I don't want to get in trouble." Then he said, "In fact, it's probably best if you don't write any of this."

its not professional and has no place. not all of Curlins owners are in jail.

And does not need this kinda bush league race calling. Talk about the race, the Breeders Cup, anything but this kinda childish crap that is lower then low.
I understand what they are charged with but it had no place in the broadcast today, none. Especially with the way it was said.

ESPN should be banned. How dare they make fun of swindling whores?

I wonder if they found out their horse won. "Hey Red I understand you are a man who knows how to get things. Can you get me a Youbet account in cell block 14?"

Please, ESPN made it clear the 2 scoundrels in jail are 20% owners of Curlin. I did not see a thing wrong with it, imo.

and it's been mentioned elsewhere that the reason curlin has no stud deal, unlike the other 'big' colts, is because of those two yahoos.
so they mentioned where two of his owners are--so what? espn shouldn't be embarrassed about it, the two crooks should. it's a shame that curlin is with the group he's with, he's a sweet horse who doesn't get much press compared to the others because of his crappy connections.

If ESPN had any decency, they would have set up a live 2-way feed so the owners could watch and then be in the "virtual winners circle" in the visitors room. It would have been very classy for Randy Moss to interview the managing owners of Curlin via CELL phone.

It's ESPN... for christ sake!

Would you expect anything different with them?

Two days of Breeder's Cup coverage with them ought be a treat!

U remind me of the the vick and O.J. supporters. Please these are crooks, if we can't laugh at them who can we laugh at?

take any creative endeavour and tell the participants not to offend anyone.

what you get is 98% of what's on tv.

i'm really sorry i missed one of the exceptions.


















new motto for our society:

"give me pablum of give me death"

I dont either, awwww they got their feelings hurt? poor them, I just cant seem to pull up any real sympanthy for them, I think I will save that for the people they screwed over for millions.

If you want to complain about something you should complain about them making light of a situation where people were defrauded out of millions of dollars. I'm sorry for the victims....not the perpetrators of the crime.

Me neither. In fact I doubt their feelings were hurt considering they probably had none in the first place. Not to mention they couldn't see the feed from ESPN. After all....it IS jail and SOME "privledges" should be held back anyway.

i'm no supporter of those two for sure, just look in esoteric. we can laugh at them and we do, ON HERe. i'm not saying they're fine people or that we shouldn't have a laugh and i have no sympathy for them. i just thought that it wasn't the right place for it.
why don't they have a laugh and make fun of every trainer whose served a drug violation? anyone with a substance abuse issue that we don't know about? how about reviewing court documents to see if they can dig up dirt on any and all owners that had starters today? lets have some jokes on those people as well. not every show has to follow the TMZ format.

I heard they are being punished severely today.....they were forced to watch the Mets game.

OOOOOOOOOO

as a huge Met fan, I'm glad I chose to avoid the TV's that had it on today.

If they want to make light of something bad about Curlin, how about the fact that he's trained by a guy who has had 25 drug suspensions???

They didn't mention the fact that the fine gentlemen of Midnight Cry have transferred their horses including Einstein to Mr. Assmussen. Best wishes guys...

Given their current digs, maybe they wanted someone a little "dirtier" that they could identify with.

I'm not so sure I agree. Didn't she run him right back at Pimlico after the Churchill debacle?

I didn't see anything wrong with the comments. You speak like you're one of the 2 guys in jail right now lol.

I'm not picking on her. She seems like a good trainer and it's not an easy game for women to succeed. I'm sorry she lost the horse, especially to a guy with 1800 horses, but I'm just offering a reason why perhaps they were unhappy.

I believe on "Dr's orders"...

other than being in prison?

My only real problem with the ESPN coverage was that they didn't use the phrase "win and you're in" quite enough for my taste.
I would have liked to hear it at least 400 times, and I think they barely made it over 250.

I was standing watching the winners' circle proceedings and my friend asked me if I heard a humming sound. I said "what humming?" and he replied: It's the sound of all those ankle bracelets going off in one place.

It's hard to get behind this horse (who I admit I love) when the owners have such a poor reputation. Jackson and Padua have been screaming about transparency and when asked about the details of their purchase of Curlin said "NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!" And they are the ones who are out.

this sideshow with his connections takes the focus off of what an incredible performer Curlin is.

I thought it was hilarious. The owners (maybe not all) are crooks.

I take it you would be O.K. with ESPN ignoring Curlin if he were owned by Michael Vick.

great hypothetical question. you couldn't ignore it because his story is larger than the horses story, it would all depend on how it was handled.
NBC would be the place where these types of human interest stories normally get fleshed out. maybe some people like that stuff, i don't. I just want the racing.

I think it's part of the story. If they can do a piece on what a wonderful man Jim Tafel is, then they have to/should show the other side as well.

Thank god Michael Vick didn't own horses

yup. there has been a real problem in the past where gold cup winners couldnt get into the classic. thank god they implemented this system.

this is a nothing issue imo, and its real simple. a couple people thought it didn't belong, others saw it as no problem. i don't think there is much else to cover on this one.

Jim..I know I'm relatively new here, but that's not how this works. We need at least 5 more pages on this