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| Larry Collmus |
  
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29 | 30.53% |
| Vic Stauffer |
  
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66 | 69.47% |
| Voters: 95. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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#25
06-21-2008, 10:40 PM
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I don't understand why we needed two threads about something nobody seems to care about anyway.
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06-21-2008, 10:41 PM
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#28
06-21-2008, 10:49 PM
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Give Chris Kotulak another chance......he can get it right; I know he can. I've heard him call the races at Fonner Park.
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#30
06-21-2008, 10:52 PM
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If I recall, Vic was given the pink slip through e-mail. Seems like this thread is a waste of time.
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#31
06-21-2008, 10:58 PM
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The most important question to be asked here is who cares? Why now on a question that has obviously been answered by the people who have the final opinion- the ones who do the hiring and firing?
Obviously the management at Gulfstream saw a reason to make a change, they dismissed an announcer who is colorful yet is quite prone to error, often lets his emotions get the best of him, and has more gaps in his calls than Michael Strahan does in his teeth. They hired an announcer who rarely, if ever, makes a mistake, has more experience than his predecessor and gives you as factual a race call as you'll find anywhere. There's also something to be said for maintaining an even keel during a race call and keeping it simple. Vic seems like a nice guy and I'm glad he participates in the board. However, lines like "cowabunga dude" and "Showing the Speed of Ruffian, the class of Lady's Secret and the Heart of Personal Ensign" along with "that's the original rags to riches" is just a little over the top in my opinion. NT
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#32
06-21-2008, 10:58 PM
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Brokeback Kotulak.
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06-21-2008, 11:00 PM
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Felix Unger talking to Oscar Madison: "Your horse could finish third by 20 lengths and they still pay you? And you have been losing money for all these years?!"
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06-21-2008, 11:01 PM
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06-21-2008, 11:02 PM
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Felix Unger talking to Oscar Madison: "Your horse could finish third by 20 lengths and they still pay you? And you have been losing money for all these years?!"
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06-21-2008, 11:14 PM
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just try to imagine all of the memorable big race calls Collmus has made.
there aren't any because when he calls a race it sounds unimportant, bland. 10K claimers or gr1's, no difference. no doubt in my mind that they took a step backwards when they made the change.
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06-21-2008, 11:41 PM
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Arnold Horshack.
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06-22-2008, 01:14 AM
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Clearly Vic is the better of the two, and he vehemently defended Gulfstream during the abortion that it has become and got fired nonetheless.
Last edited by countrydick : 06-22-2008 at 01:34 AM.
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06-22-2008, 01:23 AM
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06-22-2008, 01:37 AM
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1.) He hardly ever gets to announce memorable races. 2.) He doesn't throw in the gimmicky lines that Vic does (I'm not trying to bash Vic, he's obviously one of the best, just saying). How many memorable calls does Kurt Becker have? Does that make him a worse announcer than Stauffer or Durkin or Denman? IMO, no.
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