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Originally Posted by AlsoEligible
The talent is already out there. I know plenty of people who have come out of the program within the last decade who have good and innovative ideas. But there's a huge difference between having an idea, and convincing the forces of nature already entrenched in the industry to implement said new idea. If you do work in the industry, then you should know that already.
Regardless, telling people that if they don't like the way things are, they should relocate to Arizona to take a college course and then work in the industry to fix it...that's has to be trolling, right?
They're gamblers. Our job is to give them a good product worth investing their money in. If we're not doing that, they will (and should) go find something else to play.
Attitudes like this are what convince me that horse racing is not going to survive the legalization of sports betting. But maybe when there's only 10 tracks left in the country, and only a handful of off-track wagering sources, we can finally get the odds updates down to 5 seconds.
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I agree there is talent already in the pipeline and working to fix issues. My comment was tongue in cheek. If some think it is so easy to fix the problems, then why not encourage them to do so?
There might have been a bit of trolling involved, but it was more an effort to get them thinking about how much change they would actually be able to implement with any sort of fiscal responsibility.
You have quite a bit of patience, knowledge, empathy and do an excellent job trying to reassure people that their complaints are being addressed. I commend you for that.
...but how do you get thru to them if they are unwilling to accept what you have just explained? If logic, reason and facts don't work, maybe a little sarcasm might?
