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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat
No, I cannot agree with you at all.
If you want change you have to be vocal and if something that could be vastly improved never is one can at least bitch about it.
There is no excuse.
I cringed when I read however far back it was that NBC had secured the rights to the broadcast for X number of years, how ever many it was.
My friends who are not in to horse racing at all thought it was the most inane waste of time...
A beautiful thrilling and historic sport deserves better. I'll bet you one day, when NBC is done with it, some other network invests the time and resources and does it right.
This is just silly, pointless fluff and it is maddening to try to defend such a unique and riveting sport.
Sorry, makes me sick. I will not keep my mouth shut.
Right!
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Oh a great deal about it was ridiculous, but it just got the highest ratings since 1992. Apparently whatever they're doing works. I get complaining about
just focusing on spectacle, but people love their sound and fury, don't they? Personally I wish they'd covered some of the stories we'd heard about in the other areas of the media. Dortmund's breeder's story that I posted earlier was making the rounds and yet the most you get from the tv coverage is 'wow what a big horse,' an interview with Kaleem Shah, and asking Baffert about having 2 top horses. Nice and all, but not taking advantage of a perfectly good excuse to bawl like a baby.