Larry Collmus no longer NYRA announcer

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by Irishfever

I didn't say he turned down $750k a year. He was already making that.

You and your source both need new sources.

[Redboard]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

You and your source both need new sources.

Then why did NYRA make this move?

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by Redboard

Then why did NYRA make this move?

Just saying no way he was making $750k a year from NYRA. That's all.

[Frost king]

The last year that Durkin worked, he got $440K for working 100 days. Up until then, he was expected to call 170 cards a year.

[dilanesp]

Nobody goes to the track to hear the announcer

But Collmus was one of the best, and maybe the best, ever. I will miss him and am happy he is keeping the NBC gig. He will probably expand his NBC workload- he just did the Pegasus.

[Publius]

IF NYRA were smart they would go back to their playbook from the 1970's.
When Dave Johnson and NYRA could not agree on a contract, Dreyfus and NYRA looked at Churchill Downs and hired Chick Anderson.

Churchill Downs have a world class racecaller in Travis Stone. NYRA should be bold and hire Travis Stone.

[dilanesp]

Originally Posted by Publius

IF NYRA were smart they would go back to their playbook from the 1970's.
When Dave Johnson and NYRA could not agree on a contract, Dreyfus and NYRA looked at Churchill Downs and hired Chick Anderson.

Churchill Downs have a world class racecaller in Travis Stone. NYRA should be bold and hire Travis Stone.

Anderson was at Santa Anita and was disliked here. Californians thought he was boring. We happily took Johnson in what was effectively a trade with NYRA

[cj]

Originally Posted by dilanesp

Nobody goes to the track to hear the announcer

But Collmus was one of the best, and maybe the best, ever. I will miss him and am happy he is keeping the NBC gig. He will probably expand his NBC workload- he just did the Pegasus.

You can never hear the announcer much anyway at the track. But these days most people bet from home. I think the announcer matters at least somewhat even if it isn't a conscience thing.

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by Publius

IF NYRA were smart they would go back to their playbook from the 1970's.
When Dave Johnson and NYRA could not agree on a contract, Dreyfus and NYRA looked at Churchill Downs and hired Chick Anderson.

Churchill Downs have a world class racecaller in Travis Stone. NYRA should be bold and hire Travis Stone.

Took you long enough. Mazel Tov on waiting 10 years to make your first post. Has to be some kinda record.

[castaway01]

Originally Posted by dilanesp

Nobody goes to the track to hear the announcer

But Collmus was one of the best, and maybe the best, ever. I will miss him and am happy he is keeping the NBC gig. He will probably expand his NBC workload- he just did the Pegasus.

The first and second sentences here are insane. Everyone is watching on monitors---the announcer is important. And I don't want to get into rankings of a guy who just left his job but he's the best ever like Harold Baines is the best baseball player in the Hall of Fame. Collmus is very good, solid, reliable. But c'mon.

[Publius]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

Took you long enough. Mazel Tov on waiting 10 years to make your first post. Has to be some kinda record.

LOL I created this account years ago and forgot about it.
Long time reader of this message board first time poster.

Noneless NYRA should hire Travis Stone.

[lex]

I just wonder how much more he wanted unless they were trying to cut his pay. It seems like he'd be at the top of the salary ladder with NYRA.

[capitalman]

Stone called races at NYRA in the winter 2014-2017. He didn't want to return in 2018. Maybe they'd rather have an employee with 40 years of loyalty, although Imbriale is only a few months younger than the age that Tom Durkin was when he retired.

[PaceAdvantage]

This thread perfectly explains the insanity that is the INTERNET.

There is a guy on here trying to pass off as fact that Collmus was making three quarters of a million dollars calling races for six months a year at NYRA.

$750,000 for half a year's work.

The freakin' CEO of NYRA doesn't make $750,000 a year...not anywhere close to that...but this guy is trying to make you believe the track announcer is making that kind of money.

That's why it sometimes shames me to be a part of this giant misinformation machine called the Internet.

[rastajenk]

I think Pete Aiello would be interested for a fraction of that.