Tom Durkin On The Call

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Originally Posted by Danzig

hey, it was his choice to give it up, to make calls throughout the year. if he was ok with it, i guess we have to be too.

Danzig,
That's not true. It wasn't his choice. Durkin is under contract with NBC, and can't get out of it. The exception is the Belmont, because it's his home track. But he was tied to his NBC contract, so he couldn't call the BC races for ESPN/ABC. I think if you gave Durkin the choice, he'd keep doing the Derby and Preakness over the BC... I'd wanna call what's deemed the biggest race in the U.S. over anything else.