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05-16-2009, 08:09 PM
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http://sports.yahoo.com/rah/gallery#...ing_pim204%3A1
It wasn't that bad, you could get $1 beers from 8 a.m. to 11.  I wasn't even awake at 8 a.m. 
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05-16-2009, 08:51 PM
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How dare they attempt to prevent massive head trauma.
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05-16-2009, 09:55 PM
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The whole place is just a sewer.......
Parking $175 Tickets $120-250 for an incredibly cramped seats with no vendors, no facilities within 50-75 yards from most outside boxes or even a visible tote board from mine, never mind betting machines. Maryland Racing is a disaster on all fronts. The lack of any customer service at Pimlico or Laurel is just one of the reasons patrons stay away. With ADW's there is absolutely nothing that MAGNA has to offer an individual given action is easily accessed at home. Look at the betting menu, No 50 cent P4's, No P6, and no betting machines that accept money on site. Food that is worse than McDonalds and now an infield environment that lost the kids and the locals that came by the ten's of thousands on this one special day.......they just don't get it so they are dealt another devastating truth of their bankrupt future. The girl transcended the dismal clouds and darker hosts but the day will come when the Preakness won't be synonymous with Pimlico. And racing will lose nothing in the bargain.....
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05-16-2009, 10:02 PM
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He is going to hold tight.
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05-16-2009, 11:14 PM
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I was in the infield in 2002.. it was a cold, miserable day.. but it was BYOB!
http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/hor...ory?id=4171779 Handle on the day was $86,684,470, up from $73.5 million last year. Attendance dropped from 112,222 last year to an announced crowd of 77,850. The infield, always packed with college-age revelers who have just gotten out of school, was sparse, owing to a new policy instituted by Pimlico officials this year that banned patrons from bringing beer into the infield. Not only did infield fans have to buy beer from the concession stands, but the admission price was raised, too, to $60. The record announced Pimlico crowd is 121,263, in 2007. The crowd was announced as 100,000 or more from 2001-2008, when the infield was jammed.
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Alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life's problems. -Homer Simpson
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05-16-2009, 11:21 PM
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How is it possible that handle was up despite all those huge bettors from the infield not showing?
 I've never been to the Preakness but a trip to youtube to see old videos from the infield is enough to convince me that changing the alcohol policy was a terrific idea. NT
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05-16-2009, 11:42 PM
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The pageantry, the skill involved in negotiating frictionless port-a-potty roof tops. Im choking up a bit here.
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05-17-2009, 11:14 PM
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Still trying to outsmart me, aren't you, mule-skinner? You want me to think that you don't want me to go down there, but the subtle truth is you really don't want me to go down there!
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05-18-2009, 11:50 AM
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ESPN radio, cowherd, has devoted almost 30 minutes to the infield story and agrees with maryland, to stop carrying beer in. sorry but i agree with it too.
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05-18-2009, 11:53 AM
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