Interesting read on Players Pool fiasco

[philcski]

Originally Posted by Weary

The tweet of Scully's winning ticket came from the official TwinSpires account, not his personal account. In the video, DeRosa brought up Scully's success, unprompted. Trying to portray Scully as the bad guy is most assuredly not in good taste.

??? The twinspires Twitter account is a shared account. I have no idea who posted the pic. Not in any way painting Scully as "the bad guy."

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Maybe it's just me, but a $30,000 pool of other people's money doesn't seem like a good occasion to take a strong stand against one of the most likely winners in the race.

I've thought the same, but it's easy for us to play MMQB and say "I would have done this/that", but at the end of the day isn't the objective to construct the most optimal ticket based on your opinion? In this case, I would have done the same. I didn't like Always Dreaming, and neither did he. Thus, take a stand against. (I have not seen the actual tickets played since we cannot enter the pools in California, so I don't know what the amount of money was excluding said horse.) It shouldn't matter that it's "other people's money", since in essence they are investing in your "expertise."