California At The Breaking Point

[NTamm1215]

Wow, this sounds like it would have been a great scene. A bunch of owners/trainers looking down their nose at a horseplayer and a room full of people that think the racing industry would cease to exist if not for them.

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

Wow, this sounds like it would have been a great scene. A bunch of owners/trainers looking down their nose at a horseplayer and a room full of people that think the racing industry would cease to exist if not for them.

Pretty Much sums it up. Complete pooch screw.

[Calzone Lord]

Who is telling these people that raising takeout is going to solve those problems?

All it's going to do is compound the problem and make things much worse, much faster, and much harder to recover from.

The correct thing to do would have been to steal from the Tampa Bay Downs playbook and cut takeout mildly each year - for every year to come.

Sure - it would take about 60 years for everything to start smelling like complete roses at the TBD rate - but you'd be making progress all the time.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by Rare Bog

The trick is to steal Poker's popularity, not succumb to it.

Would have to involve some innovative stuff with betting exchanges - just from reading some of the mush brained crap logic in that article - it doesn't look good.

A confederacy of dunces.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

A confederacy of dunces.

It is.

If that same collection of dunces was faced with a 450lbs lady who came to them complaining that she "can't find a large audience in the public who views her as attractive and wants to risk time and money on her"

They would get together - and tell this fat lady that the solution to her problem is that she just needs to eat more calories.

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

A confederacy of dunces.

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

It is.

If that same collection of dunces was faced with a 450lbs lady who came to them complaining that she "can't find a large audience in the public who views her as attractive and wants to risk time and money on her"

They would get together - and tell this fat lady that the solution to her problem is that she just needs to eat more calories.

It's a book dude.

You should read it, you can probably relate.

[DaTruth]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

It's a book dude.

You should read it, you can probably relate.

He might get excited reading about Ignatius's valve.

[DaTruth]

No worry. Del Mar will introduce another new bet that will really shake things up.