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10-25-2009, 01:57 AM
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10-25-2009, 02:05 AM
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Reilly is generally a funny guy, but I dont know what to make of his call and the 'test' comment. Reminds me of a Simpsons episode with a horse named Chock Full 'O Drugs who was running on a banned substance: Churchill Downers...funny...sorta.
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10-25-2009, 02:27 AM
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Tough to decipher your take with two words.
This guy is a nobody to most folk. A celeb caller? Come on.
He was less than funny and brought nothing except for his own self import and a cloud of absurd over a contest that meant something to some/many.
Break out the party hats, fire up the blender and have a Margarita. Let him call a Dachshund race at a backyard BBQ and keep this garbage away from that booth.
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10-25-2009, 02:59 AM
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10-25-2009, 03:17 AM
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a kirstie alley post
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10-25-2009, 03:28 AM
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He sounded like Ehrlich, the Cal Expo guy, though it's too far from Sacramento on a work day.
Whoever it was made a quite cruel comment, saying one horse was so far back, it was "like he's got Kirstie Alley on his back." Thank God she's a public figure (sorry  ) --- I don't feel so bad for laughing like mad. |
If making fun of overweight people is now kosher, he should of picked some jerk, not a sweet girl like Kirstie....I'm thinkin Limbaugh.
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10-25-2009, 03:56 AM
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10-25-2009, 04:34 AM
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OK, guys, I was wrong. If Vic says it was a lame post - it was a lame post. he has better judgment and more experience than I.
Please accept my apologies.
Craig.
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10-25-2009, 05:30 AM
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A further thought...
I don't see "celebrities" guest calling a race when I watch racing from the UK, Australia, New Zealand or Hong Kong. I just don't see how it adds any value to their product by doing that in the USA.
Why not give a kid who wants to be a racecaller a chance to call a race if you are going to have a guest racecaller? I have invited a couple of kids who have been practicing their calls to visit and call a race at Arapahoe Park next year. I daresay they will get more out of it than a celebrity guest caller would.
Craig.
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10-25-2009, 06:21 AM
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I'll tell you why you don't give a kid a free pass at announcing races. This happened to a good friend of mine. Once the kid has a race or two under his belt, he runs to the next opening and offers to announce for next to nothing to satisfy his ego, thereby cheapening an announcer's worth. Then he'll run to the message boards and sing praises of himself under made up troll names. Then he'll take cheap shots at his fellow announcers. When he gets busted, he'll start slanderous lies and try to ruin the reputation of his colleagues. People know who this chap is.
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10-25-2009, 07:27 AM
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OK, guys, I was wrong. If Vic says it was a lame post - it was a lame post. he has better judgment and more experience than I.
Please accept my apologies.
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What the hell are you apologizing for?!? You're entitled to your opinion, Vic's entitled to his.
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10-25-2009, 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by DarnThatAlarm
I'll tell you why you don't give a kid a free pass at announcing races. This happened to a good friend of mine. Once the kid has a race or two under his belt, he runs to the next opening and offers to announce for next to nothing to satisfy his ego, thereby cheapening an announcer's worth. Then he'll run to the message boards and sing praises of himself under made up troll names. Then he'll take cheap shots at his fellow announcers. When he gets busted, he'll start slanderous lies and try to ruin the reputation of his colleagues. People know who this chap is.
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random question Darnthatalarm. i noticed you've only posted 6 times in over a year, and 4 of the 6 posts have to do with announcers, are you actually an announcer just posting under an anonymous name? We saw this over at Trackchampion so I was just curious.
sorry about what happened to your friend, nothing worse than guys who take cheap shots at our fellow colleagues.
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10-25-2009, 10:27 AM
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Leave the jokes to Larry Lederman, at least he does it with taste.
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Actually,leave the jokes to a pro like Frank Mirahmadi,who does them tastefully without offending anyone.The last good,funny guest announcer that I can recall was Walter Matthau calling a race at Santa Anita,and that had to be at least 25 years ago,perhaps even 30.
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10-25-2009, 11:07 AM
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At least he didn't drop the F word like Vic's fill-in announcer.
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10-25-2009, 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted by craigbraddick
A further thought...
I don't see "celebrities" guest calling a race when I watch racing from the UK, Australia, New Zealand or Hong Kong. I just don't see how it adds any value to their product by doing that in the USA.Craig.
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I'm pretty sure the Horse Racing Industries in those lands are doing very well, while racing in the U.S. is struggling and more open to promotions with media people to get some exposure and the call of at least that race onto that medias outlets airwaves, and hopefully expose the sport to harder to reach fans. Hawthorne's 3rd race yesterday (Saturday) was guest-called by a woman from the local NBC affiliate in Chicago. I didn't have the TV on last night, so I missed if they featured her call on the late evening newscast or some other TV local interest piece. And NBC-5 Chicago got some promotion on-track from this as well. Come to think of it, they were celebrating 100 years of the Carey Family owning Hawthorne, so they probably were doing a piece on Hawthorne. Seems like good P.R. to me.
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