Redboarding

[Scav]

Originally Posted by Travis Stone

If a friend of yours called you right now and told you about the pick four he hit today, do you interrupt and go, "Redboarder!"

What if you're alive after 5 legs in the pick six, and you let everyone know before the last leg, are you a 5/6's redboarder?

If we were all sitting around a campfire at the track after the last and one of us shared the winning pick four story, would the rest of us throw marshmallows at him for being a redboarder?

Or, is redboarding limited to the internet?

I've never once thought of my horseplaying friends as redboarders when they call me up and share a great score. If they always did it, and never talked about how they just missed, I might get annoyed. Why is it any different here?

Really good point

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by Scav

Really good point

Nah, it really isn't. Comparing a friend personally calling you to tell you about a score to faceless strangers broadcasting to everyone who will listen how great they just did, it's not even close to the same thing.

If you're sitting at the track and some dude you don't know and who you've never seen before comes walking near where you are and starts yelling about the ticket he just hit, that wouldn't bug you?

It's cool to be excited about a hit and there's no rule against redboarding here, but you should probably understand why it causes a few people to roll their eyes.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Nah, it really isn't. Comparing a friend personally calling you to tell you about a score to faceless strangers broadcasting to everyone who will listen how great they just did, it's not even close to the same thing.

If you're sitting at the track and some dude you don't know and who you've never seen before comes walking near where you are and starts yelling about the ticket he just hit, that wouldn't bug you?

It's cool to be excited about a hit and there's no rule against redboarding here, but you should probably understand why it causes a few people to roll their eyes.

your right, I forgot about the random person yelling and screaming they have something, everytime I think they are full of crap or have it for a $1..

Matter fact, I did this yesterday when there was a monster exacta at Monmouth and there was a guy that had the exacta for $3 (99/1 over 42/1) and missed the tri because he didn't use the chalk, he really did have it though.

[eajinabi]

It depends on how "creative" his story is. If he says he won it based on a 50-1 single he had in the third leg then its hard to believe. Everyone gets a good score once in a while so its no harm boasting about it. Not everyone tells all thier friends what they bet prior to the start of the first leg but may tell everyone if he is alive in the last leg. Some people just doesnt want his fellow man to win money but most would like to root for him.