Belmont coverage

[ARyan]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Yes, thank god. I'm sure your head would have exploded and then caught on fire if they had stayed for one more second.

News flash: No song at any racetrack in the history of anywhere ever will approach the place "My Old Kentucky Home" holds. "New York, New York" is a cheesy song that's been done to death at Yankee Stadium over the past 15 years, and god forbid anybody tries to introduce anything youthful into the fusty American racing landscape. Once again, if you weren't in the city, you don't know just how big that song was last year and like it or not, Jay is one of NY's most recognizable citizens, so marginalizing him just makes you look silly.

I love that you are this fired up "protecting" this song...

Its actually quite entertaining...

However the fact remains, most seemed to hate the choice of song and the way it was done. I'm pretty sure ABC wasn't scheduled to pull away from it, that says a lot.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by ARyan

I love that you are this fired up "protecting" this song...

Its actually quite entertaining...

However the fact remains, most seemed to hate the choice of song and the way it was done. I'm pretty sure ABC wasn't scheduled to pull away from it, that says a lot.

No one's fired up. You're the one being super dramatic ("thank GOD they cut away") over nothing. And yeah, assuming ABC's competence is a good idea today.

It's not about protecting a song so much as it's about calming down the hysteria about abandoning a cheesy, overplayed song that would never in a million years approach "My Old Kentucky Home" in significance.

[ARyan]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

No one's fired up. You're the one being super dramatic ("thank GOD they cut away") over nothing. And yeah, assuming ABC's competence is a good idea today.

It's not about protecting a song so much as it's about calming down the hysteria about abandoning a cheesy, overplayed song that would never in a million years approach "My Old Kentucky Home" in significance.

So have some unknown artist sing a popular hip-hop song, with a performance that made American Idol rejects look okay? Makes total sense.

If Patterson did request this as some poster said earlier (not sure of the validity behind that), it is a situation where I wish he was not blind but deaf...

...and yes, you are fired up, and its very comical. Who knew a Jay-Z song meant so much to you! Its a little bit heart touching...

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by ARyan

...and yes, you are fired up, and its very comical. Who knew a Jay-Z song meant so much to you! Its a little bit heart touching...

Bemused at the anachronism of DT posters would be more accurate.

[OldDog]

Originally Posted by ARyan

. . . most seemed to hate the choice of song and the way it was done.

Especially the horses.

[ARyan]

Originally Posted by OldDog

Especially the horses.

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by OldDog

Especially the horses.

Can't believe I missed that. No wonder Ice Box had a bad race.

I actually think the song explains what went on with Zito afterward. See what I did there? I brought it back around...was that too meta for everybody?

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by ARyan

I love that you are this fired up "protecting" this song...

Its actually quite entertaining...

However the fact remains, most seemed to hate the choice of song and the way it was done. I'm pretty sure ABC wasn't scheduled to pull away from it, that says a lot.

Agreed.

Hey if we're picking NY's most recognizable citizens, and we have to leave self-interested politicians out of it, let's go with Lady Gaga next year, folks. I bet she'd do an update of New York, New York that would raise some eyebrows at the very least.