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Old 08-04-2007, 08:50 AM
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Default WVA Derby preempted by Barry Bonds
The importance, or lack of, has once again been shown by ESPN's moving the telecast of the WVA Derby to ESPN classic. Although this program is really just a commercial for Mountaineer, it still holds interest for racing fans. To move it to show Bond's homerun chase is deplorable.
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Old 08-04-2007, 10:51 AM
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I wouldn't go as far calling it 'deplorable,' but it is disappointing.
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Old 08-04-2007, 11:21 AM
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The importance, or lack of, has once again been shown by ESPN's moving the telecast of the WVA Derby to ESPN classic. Although this program is really just a commercial for Mountaineer, it still holds interest for racing fans. To move it to show Bond's homerun chase is deplorable.
Deplorable is a pretty big stretch...unfortunate is a good word. Baseball and it's records hold a much higher cache than a GIII race at Mountaineer in August. If this was the Breeders Cup or Triple Crown, it would not happen (I would hope).
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Old 08-04-2007, 11:25 AM
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I understand that Bonds holds more interest than some friggin pip squeak girls softball game but it still SUCKS.
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Old 08-04-2007, 11:40 AM
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It would be interesting if a horse racing fan bought ESPN. It'd go bankrupt in a year.
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Old 08-04-2007, 11:46 AM
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Ummm. . . Bonds is playing at 10:05pm EST tonight. . .
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Old 08-04-2007, 11:47 AM
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Looks like a troll posted this. Taking advantage of us horse folks because we don't care or even know when or where he is.
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Old 08-04-2007, 02:15 PM
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It would be interesting if a horse racing fan bought ESPN. It'd go bankrupt in a year.
It really would. A lot of these people just don't get it. They think that the Claiming Crown should be be shown over the World Series. Horse racing matters to US. Not to the rest of the public. And our US is much less than the US that are interested in baseball. It's really that simple. Hell, even the racing papers have called the WV Derby a matchup of the second tier 3yos.
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Old 08-04-2007, 02:33 PM
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perhaps it was moved because they got the time wrong, or something else came up....maybe felt the race wasn't worth dedicating 1/2 hour program time towards....

now, i can understand baseball taking precedence, and cutting away for barry at bat (which doesn't appear to be the case this time however) but i don't like when something such as little league bumps racing down. or when basketball takes twenty minutes to run 30 seconds off the clock. then there's NOT cutting away from post GAME to get to the race, but they often cut away from racing before you can see the full order of finish, or payoffs...
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The importance, or lack of, has once again been shown by ESPN's moving the telecast of the WVA Derby to ESPN classic. Although this program is really just a commercial for Mountaineer, it still holds interest for racing fans. To move it to show Bond's homerun chase is deplorable.
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