Belmont coverage

[ARyan]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Yes, thank god. I'm sure your head would have exploded and then caught on fire if they had stayed for one more second.

News flash: No song at any racetrack in the history of anywhere ever will approach the place "My Old Kentucky Home" holds. "New York, New York" is a cheesy song that's been done to death at Yankee Stadium over the past 15 years, and god forbid anybody tries to introduce anything youthful into the fusty American racing landscape. Once again, if you weren't in the city, you don't know just how big that song was last year and like it or not, Jay is one of NY's most recognizable citizens, so marginalizing him just makes you look silly.

I love that you are this fired up "protecting" this song...

Its actually quite entertaining...

However the fact remains, most seemed to hate the choice of song and the way it was done. I'm pretty sure ABC wasn't scheduled to pull away from it, that says a lot.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by ARyan

I love that you are this fired up "protecting" this song...

Its actually quite entertaining...

However the fact remains, most seemed to hate the choice of song and the way it was done. I'm pretty sure ABC wasn't scheduled to pull away from it, that says a lot.

No one's fired up. You're the one being super dramatic ("thank GOD they cut away") over nothing. And yeah, assuming ABC's competence is a good idea today.

It's not about protecting a song so much as it's about calming down the hysteria about abandoning a cheesy, overplayed song that would never in a million years approach "My Old Kentucky Home" in significance.

Originally Posted by Left Bank

How the hell are we supposed to watch the Manhattan?

I think this has to do with Disney owning ABC and the race was sponsored by a whiskey company. I think this has happened before.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by arizonadave

I think this has to do with Disney owning ABC and the race was sponsored by a whiskey company. I think this has happened before.

They showed the Turf Classic on Derby day, I think that's still sponsored by Woodford Reserve.

[ARyan]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

No one's fired up. You're the one being super dramatic ("thank GOD they cut away") over nothing. And yeah, assuming ABC's competence is a good idea today.

It's not about protecting a song so much as it's about calming down the hysteria about abandoning a cheesy, overplayed song that would never in a million years approach "My Old Kentucky Home" in significance.

So have some unknown artist sing a popular hip-hop song, with a performance that made American Idol rejects look okay? Makes total sense.

If Patterson did request this as some poster said earlier (not sure of the validity behind that), it is a situation where I wish he was not blind but deaf...

...and yes, you are fired up, and its very comical. Who knew a Jay-Z song meant so much to you! Its a little bit heart touching...

[OldDog]

Originally Posted by ARyan

. . . most seemed to hate the choice of song and the way it was done.

Especially the horses.

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by ARyan

I love that you are this fired up "protecting" this song...

Its actually quite entertaining...

However the fact remains, most seemed to hate the choice of song and the way it was done. I'm pretty sure ABC wasn't scheduled to pull away from it, that says a lot.

Agreed.

Hey if we're picking NY's most recognizable citizens, and we have to leave self-interested politicians out of it, let's go with Lady Gaga next year, folks. I bet she'd do an update of New York, New York that would raise some eyebrows at the very least.

[ARyan]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

They showed the Turf Classic on Derby day, I think that's still sponsored by Woodford Reserve.

More important than the whole "song debacle" is the fact that these networks do not do a good enough job of showing the other stake races on these days. I believe, and I am sure many others here and elsewhere, that this would do wonders to help and promote the game.

Instead we have to listen to a few bad minutes of karaoke to an overplayed hip hop anthem...

[ARyan]

Originally Posted by OldDog

Especially the horses.

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by OldDog

Especially the horses.

Can't believe I missed that. No wonder Ice Box had a bad race.

I actually think the song explains what went on with Zito afterward. See what I did there? I brought it back around...was that too meta for everybody?

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by ARyan

...and yes, you are fired up, and its very comical. Who knew a Jay-Z song meant so much to you! Its a little bit heart touching...

Bemused at the anachronism of DT posters would be more accurate.

[foregos nuts]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

OMG, let it go. New Yorkers under 80 loved it.

Unemployed people under 80 in bed-sty loved it

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by foregos nuts

Unemployed people under 80 in bed-sty loved it

Banned people hated it.

[westcoastinvader]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Yes, thank god. I'm sure your head would have exploded and then caught on fire if they had stayed for one more second.

News flash: No song at any racetrack in the history of anywhere ever will approach the place "My Old Kentucky Home" holds. "New York, New York" is a cheesy song that's been beaten to death at Yankee Stadium over the past 15 years, and god forbid anybody tries to introduce anything youthful into the fusty American racing landscape. Once again, if you weren't in the city, you don't know just how big that song was last year and like it or not, Jay is one of NY's most recognizable citizens, so marginalizing him just makes you look silly.

Cripes, now I know how Illinois-Arkansas based Hillary Rodham Clinton carpet bagged her way to a US Senate seat from New York.

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by westcoastinvader

Cripes, now I know how Illinois-Arkansas based Hillary Rodham Clinton carpet bagged her way to a US Senate seat from New York.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

Did you even look at the faces of the crowd? Many of them had a look of "wtf?" I actually started laughing, it was so comical.

If this is what you think of as being in touch, thank God you're not running any racing organizations. We'd be in even worse shape. And no, I don't hate the song, I just know what constitutes an idiotic decision by a caricature of a governor.

While I think music for horseraces is beyond moronic there is no doubt in my mind that Joey would be doing a far better job running most racing organizations than the geniuses that we are currently graced with

Pros
He actually follows the sport
He bets
He would try to do a good job

Cons
Jets fan
Celtics fan
Rachael maddow fan

The Jets thing is tough to overcome but he still wins by open lengths in a non-Droselmeyer like time

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Is that Lenny Kravitz?

[ARyan]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

While I think music for horseraces is beyond moronic there is no doubt in my mind that Joey would be doing a far better job running most racing organizations than the geniuses that we are currently graced with

Pros
He actually follows the sport
He bets
He would try to do a good job

Cons
Jets fan
Celtics fan
Rachael maddow fan

The Jets thing is tough to overcome but he still wins by open lengths in a non-Droselmeyer like time

Anyone who is a fan of that Morning Zoo crock needs to have their head examined...

Get right in line behind the Bill O'Reilly fan, and the person who thinks Jon Stewart and Steve Colbert are actually news outlets.

[Arletta]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Is that Lenny Kravitz?

LOL!!!!

[philcski]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Is that a "jump to conclusions mat"?

BTW I hated the song too. Would have been ok if Alicia Keys had done it but instead they had some girl that would make VFTW blush.