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Old 05-09-2022, 05:32 PM
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Mike Wilbon took a shot at horse racing? I'm shocked.

He hates racing.
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Old 05-09-2022, 05:35 PM
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Mike Wilbon took a shot at horse racing? I'm shocked.

He hates racing.
We disagree again!

He DESPISES racing.

On the rare occasion he talks about it.

He's uniformed, short sighted and totally ARROGANT.

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Old 05-09-2022, 06:42 PM
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Forget thr Preakness, the real money is in a match race with Firenze Fire, 9 furlongs, no holds barred.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogW_eXSLyGA
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Old 05-09-2022, 06:45 PM
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Forget thr Preakness, the real money is in a match race with Firenze Fire, 9 furlongs, no holds barred.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogW_eXSLyGA
Have to cage in the entire track.

Loser shaves his head and must leave town!
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Old 05-09-2022, 07:59 PM
Dahoss Dahoss is offline
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Mike Wilbon took a shot at horse racing? I'm shocked.

He hates racing.
I just watched it. I’m Not sure what show Vic watched but he didn’t really take a shot at anything. He said he’s not into racing and fell asleep before the race.

Kornheiser loves the Derby and talked briefly about the winner. Then they talked about Rich Strike biting the pony and the outrider doing what he had to do try and keep Rich Strike off the lead pony. True, they both jokingly wondered if it was normal for a horse to try and eat another horse.

At no point did anyone say what Blasi did was wrong and neither of the hosts criticized what he did.
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Old 05-09-2022, 08:03 PM
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I just watched it. I’m Not sure what show Vic watched but he didn’t really take a shot at anything. He said he’s not into racing and fell asleep before the race.

Kornheiser loves the Derby and talked briefly about the winner. Then they talked about Rich Strike biting the pony and the outrider doing what he had to do try and keep Rich Strike off the lead pony. True, they both jokingly wondered if it was normal for a horse to try and eat another horse.

At no point did anyone say what Blasi did was wrong and neither of the hosts criticized what he did.
Kornheiser closed his fist and punched down three times. Saying he'd never seen anyone punch a horse.
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Old 05-09-2022, 08:09 PM
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Kornheiser closed his fist and punched down three times. Saying he'd never seen anyone punch a horse.
And…..

He didn’t criticize what was done. They were laughing about it.
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Old 05-09-2022, 08:12 PM
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And…..

He didn’t criticize what was done. They were laughing about it.
Not the way it came across to me.

Plus laughing about a guy hitting a horse with a closed fist can't be good either.

I thought you were on the side that what the outrider did was bad?
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Old 05-09-2022, 08:19 PM
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Not the way it came across to me.

Plus laughing about a guy hitting a horse with a closed fist can't be good either.

I thought you were on the side that what the outrider did was bad?
Well you have a habit of needing to justify your opinions. You’re trying to do that here but I actually watched the show and you’re being misleading at best.

Not sure why you’d think I was on any side. I said the optics were bad (they were) and that the sport missed an opportunity to educate. Honestly, I’ve seen very little backlash about what happened outside of this thread. The entire thing is much ado about nothing and distracts from the race.

I’ve seen more chatter about a dumb tweet Eric Reed made months ago than this.
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Old 05-09-2022, 08:23 PM
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Well you have a habit of needing to justify your opinions. You’re trying to do that here but I actually watched the show and you’re being misleading at best.

Not sure why you’d think I was on any side. I said the optics were bad (they were) and that the sport missed an opportunity to educate. Honestly, I’ve seen very little backlash about what happened outside of this thread. The entire thing is much ado about nothing and distracts from the race.

I’ve seen more chatter about a dumb tweet Eric Reed made months ago than this.
I've seen quite a bit of conversation about the incident. Running about 4-1 against the outrider.

I feel bad for the guy. I've never heard anything but great things about him. I rode horses for his wife when I was an agent.

I'll never come off my opinion that irregardless of the situation he was mistaken to take the action he did.
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