Luck

Even right-wing talk show host Michael Savage weighed in (negatively) on it last night. He complained that it was just another "Hollow-wood" creation of aging west coast morally bankrupt hippies, and featuring a couple of past their prime actors totally miscast. He did take a couple of calls from authentic-sounding race track guys from New York who tried to fill him in on what the game is all about.

Ocala Mike

Originally Posted by Ocala Mike

Even right-wing talk show host Michael Savage weighed in (negatively) on it last night. He complained that it was just another "Hollow-wood" creation of aging west coast morally bankrupt hippies, and featuring a couple of past their prime actors totally miscast. He did take a couple of calls from authentic-sounding race track guys from New York who tried to fill him in on what the game is all about.

Ocala Mike

Is there anything that this idiot even likes? He complains about everything. He is a walking hypocrite.

Originally Posted by helicopter11

Is there anything that this idiot even likes? He complains about everything. He is a walking hypocrite.

I listen to him, not for his politics, but because he and I were schoolmates at Jamaica High School and Queens College in New York during the late 50's and early 60's.

I would say he likes, not necessarily in this order, boating around SF Bay, his two dogs, good food and wine, and (especially) himself. Not so much a hypocrite as a narcissist.


Ocala Mike

Originally Posted by Ocala Mike

I listen to him, not for his politics, but because he and I were schoolmates at Jamaica High School and Queens College in New York during the late 50's and early 60's.

I would say he likes, not necessarily in this order, boating around SF Bay, his two dogs, good food and wine, and (especially) himself. Not so much a hypocrite as a narcissist.


Ocala Mike

Michael Weiner (Savage) is an opportunist who will be or say whatever makes the most money/ratings.

[Bigsmc]

Originally Posted by helicopter11

Michael Weiner (Savage) is an opportunist who will be or say whatever makes the most money/ratings.

Isn't that true for most radio/TV "hosts"?

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

Isn't that true for most radio/TV "hosts"?

No, MOST actually believe in the lunacy they spew out.

[Kasept]

Chicago Tribune with a review suggesting dubious viewers to stick with it..

Originally Posted by Ocala Mike

I listen to him, not for his politics, but because he and I were schoolmates at Jamaica High School and Queens College in New York during the late 50's and early 60's.

I would say he likes, not necessarily in this order, boating around SF Bay, his two dogs, good food and wine, and (especially) himself. Not so much a hypocrite as a narcissist.


Ocala Mike

He's a piece of s.hit.

[Calzone Lord]

I still think Luck would have had a much higher ceiling as a show if it would have been set in the late 1800's when the takeout rates were under 5%, when horse bettors made absolute fortunes, when horse bettors dated the best actresses from plays, when the press frequently wrote about them in the papers, and when a few of the more notorious ones did crazy sh!t all the time.

Not that it detracts any from the show -- but you have a guy who lost his last dollar playing poker the night before, he's broke, and he shows up at the track with a napkin that has a $3,240 pick six play on it.

As for the $3,240 play on the napkin... it's 3 by 1 by 4 by 5 by 3 by 9

He singles a horse off of a 2-year layoff that went off at more than 12/1 odds even though his own trainer bet $3,000 to win on him.

Next time there's a big pick six carryover somewhere -- try that -- show up, tell people you don't have any money on you, but give them a 3K + Pick 6 play with a double digit longshot singled.

The guys who made fortunes betting horses in the late 1800's -- that would translate to fortunes worth tens of millions of dollars today -- they did it without any luck. They did it in a time when horse racing was one of the three major sports in New York along with Baseball and Boxing ... and in some big cities outside of New York, horse racing was bigger than any other sport.

Seemed like it would have been such a perfect fit for Milch -- because Deadwood was 1870's in about the same time range as the start of the goldenest of golden eras for the horse bettor. And an era when some real shady, violent, and interesting stuff did happen in horse racing. There will never be another person assosicated with horse racing who is even 1/100th as intersting as Plunger Walton.

All beside the point -- it takes nothing away from Luck. The days of horse bettors having national and even international celebrity are over. The racing is at least more honest and tightly regulated now... but that doesn't suit the time peroid for a drama series.