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Originally Posted by Gaining Ground
so this is what your position is reduced to? might have just been easier to admit you were wrong a few pages back. you keep failing to recognize that the #1 slogan for the monmouth meet is 50 million in 50 days.
the money is why people are at monmouth. the fact that so far they aren't close to averaging a million a day and wont be at the end of the meet is a story. at least some people think it is including the thread starter. you dont and that is fine.
but why set yourself up in the middle of a discussion that
1. you have said you dont care about
2. you have no interest in actually discussing
3. you dont think is even a story
4. you are wrong about, but too hard headed to admit?
why waste your time on something like this?
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Because explaining the reality of the situation could perhaps enlighten some of the people who took the time to read this tedious thread?
You keep hanging your hat on a 'slogan'. I dont know what it is that I have said that you find so upsetting on a personal level. You keep coming back to petty points while obviously missing the point. That point is that purse money is not evenly distributed on a daily basis. A secondary point is that the amount of purse money paid out depends on many factors other than the tracks desire to pay or not pay more or less than stated in the 'slogan'. The third point is that purses are usually underpaid by some percentage for the majority of a meet's days. The reasoning is simple, the track does not want to pay more than they are required to.
You want to spin this as though something is happening that isnt typical racetrack business practices. It is not. As I have said numerous times, how much Monmouth pays out in purses is immaterial to me. If they pay out $46 million instead of $50 million it doesnt matter to me because racetracks underpaying purses is a common move. Your insistence that they are going to way underpay the purses is so far based on conjecture. But the idea that something nefarious is happening there because of your opinion over a slogan, well that does interest me.