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Old 04-26-2019, 12:34 AM   #106
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Historic landmark status means very little. Look up Soldier Field if you have any illusions about this.
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Old 04-26-2019, 12:53 AM   #107
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JESUS CHRIST...you DO have an age complex!!
Also, I was just breaking TLG's balls. He is an excellent commentator/analyst/journalist. I figure he gets criticized all the time a lot worse than being called an oldster. Besides someone has to motivate people to post on paceadvantage. Nothing like a good train wreck to draw eyeballs to the pages.

Someone did post earlier that this thread was a train wreck didn't they?
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Old 04-26-2019, 12:55 AM   #108
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Historic landmark status means very little. Look up Soldier Field if you have any illusions about this.
I have no illusions and am not sentimental. Tear it down.
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Old 04-27-2019, 07:51 PM   #109
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Also, I was just breaking TLG's balls. He is an excellent commentator/analyst/journalist. I figure he gets criticized all the time a lot worse than being called an oldster. Besides someone has to motivate people to post on paceadvantage. Nothing like a good train wreck to draw eyeballs to the pages.

Someone did post earlier that this thread was a train wreck didn't they?

Nobody says "train wreck" anymore.

Now it's "dumpster fire."
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Nobody says "train wreck" anymore.

Now it's "dumpster fire."
I'm an oldster, not a hipster.
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Did someone actually post a long screed in this thread about how the only way to save racing is to have racing save their customers from themselves? That exotic wagering is the downfall of racing?

Wow.
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Did someone actually post a long screed in this thread about how the only way to save racing is to have racing save their customers from themselves? That exotic wagering is the downfall of racing?

Wow.
AskinHaskin in post #54

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Someone please post the definition of rhetorical.
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Someone please post the definition of rhetorical.
asked merely for effect with no answer expected
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When I first came into racing the late '70s, NYRA had just introduced the trifecta (they called it the "Big Triple" in those days) and offered it on only one race, the 9th. There was only one daily double (on the 1st and 2nd races) and three exactas (on the 3rd, 5th, and 7th races).

While I'm not necessarily making a "chicken or the egg" argument, racing was in much better shape in the late '70s than it is today - at least if one uses field sizes and crowd sizes as litmus tests.
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