Street Smarts
 

Disclaimer - Yes I am sober............................................. .....................

So I am having dinner at a local Wing and Pizza hangout this evening chillin with a couple friends playing the designated driver route munching on wings and celery (yummy) and then my ears turn to the table next to us. Nobody at our table besides me digs Horse Racing, so I am all ears listening to this cat at the table next to us talking about how "Street Smarts" got an easy trip and was givin the Derby by all the others Jocks.

He said "Street Smarts" a good 10 times tellin his buddies how the Derby went down.

Being the A Hole I can be at times, I asked this cat (who had a couple draft beers in him:eek: ) if he bet Street Smarts:D

Nice story.

Happy T and i went to Hollywood Park on Derby day. At the next table was a real loud-mouth know-it-all, wanna-be Sopranos type and his three disciples. He pontificated, they nodded and made strange sounds in unison. All through the Woodford Reserve and the Humana or "da Human" as i guess it's known in some circles this guy went on and on about who wouldn't win.....

I swear, if this idiot said "dat dere Street Cry" one more time.....

Put my imaginary earplugs in and played the race a few different ways and didn't hit, but i had to laugh when dat dere Street Cry won.

LOL, reminds me of the time my friend was going ON and ON about how "Very Quiet" was going to win the Triple Crown.

How about that guy Smarty Pants?? Didn't he win the Derby or something?

Last Friday I overheard a guy at the OTB saying that the top jocks to watch for at Churchill are Berano and Lepano.

Or at Arlington on Friday about how Tiago was a FULL to Giacomo or some crap.....

clowns....

Friday this guy at the track was ranting about how he couldn't handicap the Derby because they were running it on Polytrack and none of the horses had ever run on it before. I bit my lip on that one and figured I'd just let him keep thinking that.

LMFAO

One of the folks interviewed on tv said his pick was "Toof-less-burg"... not the same thing as Street Smarts but this was someone who was supposedly a big fan who clearly hadn't been watching anything on television or talked to anyone about the horse. It was good that Circular Quay didn't do better than he did...the announcer was mispronouncing his name but didn't have a reason to say it more than once or twice, thus annoying me less than it would've.

These storys are nearly as annoying as how the media has played up SS being going from "19th to 1st", totally unaware of how that is his style of running. It wasn't "amazing" that he did it, and we all know that if he was leading early he never would have had a chance...

ALostTexan

Not to be confused with that polyester track.

Once when Frank was talking about it on TVG he got annoyed at calling it a synthetic surface I think and basically went 'ah screw it, "all-weather"...'

And the most ironic thing is .... a good portion of those people probably bet on Imawildandcrazyguy because they thought it a cool or funny name, and those were the superfecta winners ....