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Old 01-15-2010, 07:45 PM
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beyer came back a 92. good looking filly
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Old 01-15-2010, 08:10 PM
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beyer came back a 92. good looking filly
Love your name Gaining Ground. Now I get to think of those Battaglia calls that come up in my nightmares.
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Old 01-15-2010, 10:50 PM
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Love your name Gaining Ground. Now I get to think of those Battaglia calls that come up in my nightmares.
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Old 01-15-2010, 11:36 PM
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Why the hate for Battaglia?

I almost never watch races from that track, but he doesn't seem that awful to me the few times I've heard him.
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Old 01-15-2010, 11:42 PM
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Why the hate for Battaglia?

I almost never watch races from that track, but he doesn't seem that awful to me the few times I've heard him.
He's way past awful. He takes forever to identify horses and elongates words like "seconnnd" in addition to his "GAINING GROUND" BS. I have to mute the TV.
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Old 01-16-2010, 12:27 AM
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Why the hate for Battaglia?

I almost never watch races from that track, but he doesn't seem that awful to me the few times I've heard him.
He makes me want to slit my wrists.
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Old 01-16-2010, 01:03 AM
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Weird.

The only use I have for callers is to figure out where the horses I'm following in the race are placed, early in the race. From there I can, for the most part, follow what I need visually.

I usually end up not even noticing the call as anything more than a buzz in my ear.
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Old 01-16-2010, 01:31 AM
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is this horse named from phantom of the opera character?? and no, i am not gay!
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Old 01-20-2010, 09:02 AM
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Why the hate for Battaglia?

I almost never watch races from that track, but he doesn't seem that awful to me the few times I've heard him.
I really wish I knew which big race at Turfway last year it was, maybe the Lane's End?, where he just kept repeating "GAINING GROUND!" because he couldn't figure out which horse was coming on the outside. It was an all-time Battaglia classic.
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Old 01-20-2010, 09:12 AM
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Why the hate for Battaglia?

I almost never watch races from that track.
You should watch the 7 horse in Race 7 on Friday
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