Saturday June 10, 2023
2023 Belmont Stakes 155 GI pp
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Forte, National Treasure Lead Nine-Horse Belmont
| Post | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Odds |
| 1 | Tapit Shoes | Brad Cox | Jose Ortiz | 20-1 |
| 2 | Tapit Trice | Todd Pletcher | Luis Saez | 3-1 |
| 3. | Arcangelo | Jena Antonucci | Javier Castellano | 8-1 |
| 4. | National Treasure | Bob Baffert | John Velazquez | 5-1 |
| 5. | Il Miracolo | Antonio Sano | Marcos Menenses | 30-1 |
| 6. | Forte | Todd Pletcher | Irad Ortiz, Jr. | 5-2 |
| 7. | Hit Show | Brad Cox | Manny Franco | 10-1 |
| 8. | Angel of Empire | Brad Cox | Flavien Prat | 7-2 |
| 9. | Red Route One | Steve Asmussen | Joel Rosario | 15-1 |
Brisnet – Get to know the 2023 Belmont Stakes contenders
Bloodhorse – America’s Best Racing – Tordjman – Meet the Jockeys for the 2023 Belmont Stakes
Bloodhorse – Belmont Racing Festival Secretariat-Related Giveaways
Friday June 9, 2023
Dorth Vader, a John Ropes Florida homebred returns in the Acorn on Friday, June 9, 2023 at Belmont. Dorth Vader is by Girvin (Tale of Ekati) out of the Yonaguska mare Hardcore Candy who was campaigned in Alberta by Darrell Landry and then Amber Buniak and Ryan McLean. Hardcore Candy won 8 races from 40 starts with 8 seconds and 4 thirds, earning $101,308. She was Stakes placed in the Freedom of the City Stakes (Black Type) at Northlands Park.
Dorth Vader has a new trainer at Belmont, George Weaver. John R Valazquez picks up the mount for the Acorn.
50th Anniversary of Secretariat’s 1973 Triple Crown
The “Secretariat Larger Than Life 50th Anniversary Tour” Triple Crown schedule is as follows:
- June 8 – 11 Belmont Park, Elmont, New York
Bloodhorse – Shulman – Secretariat Reaches Another Level in Belmont Stakes Win
Haskin – Secretariat’s Triple Crown Cover to Cover
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Rivals Had a Different View of Secretariat’s Belmont
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Anderson’s Tremendous Belmont Call Stands Test of Time
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Johnson’s Call of Secretariat’s Belmont Reflects Era
TDN – Dave Johnson Joins TDN Writers’ Room, Talks Secretariat
Paulick Report – Hughes – Five Decades On, Secretariat’s Belmont Stakes Legacy Continues To Resonate
Bloodhorse – Belmont Racing Festival Secretariat-Related Giveaways
I asked him to tell me what he remembered from all those years of writing about sports, for he had seen some things in his time: Michael Jordan at North Carolina, a teenage John McEnroe, Bear Bryant, the Big Red Machine in Cincinnati. This is what he told me:
I was at Secretariat’s Derby, in ’73, the year before you were born – I don’t guess you were even conceived yet. That was … just beauty, you know? He started in last place, which he tended to do. l was covering the second-place horse, which wound up being Sham. It looked like Sham’s race going into the last turn, I think. The thing you have to understand is that Sham was fast, a beautiful horse. He would have had the Triple Crown in another year.
And it just didn’t seem like there could be anything faster than that. Everybody was watching him. It was over, more or less. And all of a sudden there was his … like, just a disruption in the comer of your eye, in your peripheral vision. And then before you could make our what it was, here Secretariat came. And then Secretariat had passed him. No one had ever seen anything run like that – a lot of the old guys said the same thing. It was like he was some other animal out there …
John Jeremiah Sullivan – Horseman Pass By_(Secretariat)
Kentucky Derby 150
Kentucky Derby 150 – Derby of A Lifetime Contest
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And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I’ll take the pennant every time.
Carl Yastrzemski
Dorth Vader, a John Ropes Florida homebred requited herself very well in the Acorn on Friday, June 9, 2023 at Belmont running a game second to Pretty Mischievous, beaten only a short head. Dorth Vader is by Girvin (Tale of Ekati) out of the Yonaguska mare Hardcore Candy who was campaigned in Alberta by Darrell Landry and then Amber Buniak and Ryan McLean. Hardcore Candy won 8 races from 40 starts with 8 seconds and 4 thirds, earning $101,308. She was Stakes placed in the Freedom of the City Stakes (Black Type) at Northlands Park.
But similar to her rally from fifth early in the Kentucky Oaks, the daughter of Into Mischief soon found herself in a stretch battle—this time with Dorth Vader —before prevailing at the wire.
Bloodhorse – Angst – Pretty Mischievous Edges Dorth Vader in Acorn Stakes
TDN – Sherack – Kentucky Oaks Heroine Pretty Mischievous Delivers in Acorn Thriller
Paulick Report – NYRA – Bohl – Kentucky Oaks Winner Pretty Mischievous Digs Deep For Acorn Triumph
Global News – Blunt – Manitoba’s Assiniboia Downs horse racetrack marks 65th anniversary
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.
Chief Seattle
Sports Business Journal – Lemire – Equibase, Pramana team up to generate horse racing betting tips
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Favorable Air Quality, Sunshine for Belmont Stakes Day
Bloodhorse – Air Quality Protocols Established for NY Horse Industry
A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Don Vito Corleone
Phil has a question:
Isn’t it ironic that 2 iconic cops and robbers and robbers and cops shows both have big family dinners. Blue Bloods and the Sopranos.
Whose cookbook would you rather have: Blue Bloods or the Sopranos.
A “Sunday Gravy” Recipe From The Sopranos
When I first started racing, my father said, “Win the race as slow as you can.
Richard Petty
#1 – Tapit Shoes
Were this a Grade 3
He’d offer tons of value
This spot’s a big ask
#2 – Tapit Trice
A son of Tapit
Ran in Derby’s upper half
Heard this one before?
#3 – Arcangelo
Late bloomer, like dad
Castellano gets his best
There is value here
#4 – National Treasure
Well-ridden Preakness
Bested a depleted field
Whole new ballgame here
#5 – Il Maracolo
Whalloped in stakes tries
Test of champions? Why not!
Bloodline’s all he’s got
#6 – Forte
Bad timing, bad press
Has highest talent ceiling
Feels like a bounce risk
#7 – Hit Show
Derby wasn’t bad
Not quite a win candidate
But deserves a look
#8 – Angel of Empire
A fine Churchill trip
Gets some rest and new blinkers
Should be live again
#9 – Red Route One
Needs a pace meltdown
Likely won’t find it today
Gaining mid-pack run
Prediction
This feels obvious
Like patterns? Bet Tapit Trice.
Eight, three round it out
Paulick Report – Nevills – The Haiku Handicapper Presented By FanDuel Racing: 2023 Belmont Stakes
Bloodhorse – Keeler Johnson’s Belmont Stakes 155 Selections
Haskin – The Most Dominant Horse in the 2023 Belmont
One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
Viggo Mortensen
This is Horse Racing – Tom Law – Belmont Day 2023 stakes picks
Dirty Horse Club – 2023 Belmont Stakes Analysis – Updated
TDN – Sherack – ‘Tapping’ into the Field for the 155th Belmont Stakes
TDN – Thornton – Belmont Preview: Final Three Furlongs Will Yield The Drama
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Mile-and-a-Half Stakes Have Been Pletcher’s Forte
New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.
Bob Dylan
Thoroughbred announcing is incredibly difficult — even veteran play-by-play announcers bristle when they think about the gig. The animals move fast and stick close together, identifiable by only their saddle cloth or jockey silks. Paquette keeps a lineup of colored pencils in the booth to mark up her race sheets with the proper silks, and scratches notes next to each horse’s name — for example, if it’s wearing blinkers or not — to fill in the details as she calls 10 races a day three days a week. As they hit the backstretch, they’re nearly impossible to discern by the naked eye — and that’s without factoring in the elements, such as rain or fog. Meanwhile, anxious bettors hang on the announcer’s every word.
“You memorize the field, get dialed in and then you’ve got to forget the names you just remembered five minutes ago,’’ says Chris Griffin, her predecessor at Parx. “It’s not something you can go to school for. They’re not talking about what to say when a horse stumbled out of the gate in the fifth race at journalism school.”
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Just caught the tenth. Is Jessica related to Stuttering John?
I don’t know why anyone would want to publicly embarrass themselves.
It’s the way of current society. Qualified, competent or not, being in a rush to be the first to hire a woman, transgender, openly gay, or person of color.
I go to the track to get away from my old lady’s voice.
The 4th reminded me of when the Mets have a kid come on to announce an inning of a game because he won a contest. But usually the kid practices before going on.
Glad you’re enjoying yourself. Stevie Wonder could do a better job.
That’s just a dose of the vitriol tossed Paquette’s way via message boards and social media. Others pretend to offer advice, all while prefacing their remarks with “love’’ or “honey.’’ Some intimated about just how she got the job; some flat-out propositioned her.
Bloodhorse – Byron King – National Treasure Pursues Preakness-Belmont Double
“This is the kind of adversity that should bring us together, but the old school thinks it will just go away and the blue bloods don’t want to change, so it won’t happen. There needs to be a governing body in the sport and if there isn’t one in the next two years I don’t think the sport survives for five years and I don’t know if I want to be in the sport for five years.
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Last Five Weeks an Upsetting Time for Team Forte
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens
The Ringer – Kram – The Nuggets Proved Their Championship Mettle With Their MVP Off the Floor
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Don’t taunt the alligator until after you’ve crossed the creek.
Dan Rather
Dorth Vader, a John Ropes Florida homebred returns in the Acorn on Friday, June 9, 2023 at Belmont. Dorth Vader is by Girvin (Tale of Ekati) out of the Yonaguska mare Hardcore Candy who was campaigned in Alberta by Darrell Landry and then Amber Buniak and Ryan McLean. Hardcore Candy won 8 races from 40 starts with 8 seconds and 4 thirds, earning $101,308. She was Stakes placed in the Freedom of the City Stakes (Black Type) at Northlands Park.
Dorth Vader has a new trainer at Belmont, George Weaver. John R Valazquez picks up the mount for the Acorn.
Music made secretly wins no respect.
Nero
Sometimes Phil just has to succumb to the Urge.
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Training in NY Resumes June 9; Belmont Park to Race
Bloodhorse – Air Quality Protocols Established for NY Horse Industry
Haskin – The Most Dominant Horse in the 2023 Belmont
Dirty Horse Club – 2023 Belmont Stakes Analysis
TDN – Thornton – Belmont Preview: Final Three Furlongs Will Yield The Drama
Sonata No. 10 in G major op. 96 – Part 1
Bloodhorse – Downey – Rice License Revocation Overturned by New York Court
Bloodhorse – America’s Best Racing – Pedulla – Antonucci Could Make History in Belmont Stakes
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Charles Dickens
Bloodhorse – Rollins – Pretty Mischievous the One to Beat in Acorn
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
Southern Living – Tobin – How To Cut A Watermelon
ScumDiddlyUmptious – Smoky Grilled Watermelon Steak In A Spicy Balsamic Glaze
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
Irving Berlin
Bloodhorse – Karen M Johnson – Durkin: Shaking Off the Cobwebs
Front Office Sports – McCarthy – ‘SportsCenter’ Anchor Neil Everett Leaving ESPN After 23 Years
National Post – AP – Kinnard – What to know about Trump’s indictment charges and what’s next
Phil has a question:
How much does it bother demented Donald that Lionel Messi signing with Inter Miami is getting more press in Florida and the US than demented Donald getting indicted.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein
ESPN – Messi to Inter Miami hot takes: What move to MLS means for the player, Barcelona and fans
Phil has a question:
Did the Messi camp get Inter Miami confused with Inter Milan.
Bloodhorse – America’s Best Racing – At a Glance: Who Can Challenge Cody’s Wish in Met Mile?
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Leopold Stokowski
TSN – McKenzie – Special hockey sticks to create awareness for Every Child Matters
The Ringer – Surrey – ‘Jurassic Park’ at 30: A Great Blockbuster Finds a Way to Make Hollywood Worse
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
The Ringer – Chin – What’s Next for the Spider-Verse?
Garden and Gun – Seven Southern Drive-In Movie Theaters
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
Walt Whitman
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book — and does.
Groucho Marx
These changes won’t come easy in an industry, unlike other professional sports, that does not have a national league with a commissioner or a board of governors, with regular meetings of owners, player associations and other interested parties to create shared and unified regulation. That is why I believe it is time for a CEO-level horse racing leadership summit of racetrack owners and veterinarians.
Regardless of the findings that come out of Churchill Downs, our industry faces a watershed moment. The time has come for all stakeholders to meet this moment with a unified commitment to the safety and welfare of horses and riders. If we can do that, I believe we can earn back the public trust and strengthen the social license required to sustain horse racing into the future.
TDN – Thornton – NJ Commission Suspends Cobb
Sports Business Journal – A’s stadium bill vote on hold through weekend
SportsNet – Ryan Huska leading candidate to be named Flames’ new coach
I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
Mitch Hedberg
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Bloodhorse – Downey – Rice License Revocation Overturned by New York Court
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Belmont Park Cancels June 8 Due to Poor Air Quality
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Canada’s National Observer – Wood – A summer up in smoke
Bloodhorse – Poor Air Quality Nixes Thursday Training at Belmont
TDN – NYRA Cancels Thursday Training
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Bargain Buy Arcangelo Takes Ebbert to Belmont Stakes
Guys like you can’t escape the city. Hell, you a got a blood contract with this place. You’re married to the old girl.
Mickey Spillane
Bloodhorse – Angst – FOX Coverage of Belmont Highlights Radio, TV Schedule
Phil has a beef. When Phil was searching for videos of the 4 post Secretariat Triple Crown winners Phil kept getting the same message on a number of sites: Video Unavailable. Phil can understand media outlets like NBC trying to protect their economic interests by forcing customers to use their paid services, but come on, Justify was in 2018 and American Pharoah was 2015. Since there’s no Thoroughbred Racing Commissioner to pressure the media outlets to ensure that content for fans remains easily accessible thoroughbred racing publicity suffers at the hands of entities who make money from racing.
Phil’s a diehard badger who’ll keep digging for the info, but racing suffers when the info is not at the fingertips of the newbies. And remember that the computer generations’ attention span is a tad shorter than that of a gnat.
A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I’d die for my fans.
Lady Gaga
“You’ve all called us in here for a special session, and are asking, minimally, for the state to give you all $36 million per year for the next five years for a taxpayer-funded stadium, at the same time that the governor has vetoed funding for summer school, a bill to support children’s mental health, a bill requiring paid family leave — all because the governor said we couldn’t afford them,” State Senator Rochelle Nguyen said early in a three-hour back and forth with two advocates of the bill.
“Can you explain to me why we need to provide hundreds of millions of dollars for a billionaire team to come to the Las Vegas Strip, on some of the most valuable property in the world, if we can’t provide funding for critical resources?” Nguyen continued. “Can you explain to me why this is such a good deal that we should agree that no taxes generated on the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana should go to these critical state and local services for the next 30 years?”
The Athletic – Drellich – A’s Las Vegas plan takes heat in Nevada special legislative session
Phil has a question:
How can Danielle Smith and the UCPs justify spending hundreds of millions on a new arena in Calgary when the Universities and Colleges in this province had their funding slashed.
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Phil has a question:
Does anyone involved in horse racing think that the sport can survive the continued barrage of pot shots that the various factions in horse racing keep aiming at each other along with the pot shots that the animal activists keep aiming at horse racing.
Instead of ruling by royal decree from above why don’t the regulators like HISA and Horse Racing Alberta sit down with the breeding and racing groups and work out rules that make sense and are enforceable.
How many of the regulators have ever mucked a stall.
How do you apply a riding crop.
If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan
Phil has a question:
How many times has someone from Horse Racing Alberta contacted Phil or Sal.
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa
ESPN – Raimondi – The Iron Sheik, pro wrestling legend and Hall of Famer, dies at 81
My biggest fear is becoming a parody of myself. That’s something I struggle with.
The Undertaker
The Ringer – Phillips – The ‘Vice City’ Guide to Lionel Messi in Miami
Front Office Sports – Rumsey – MLS Wins Big With Messi’s Move to Inter Miami
Sports Illustrated – Koons – Lionel Messi to Sign With MLS’s Inter Miami, per Report
ESPN – Marsden and Liorens – Lionel Messi: Move to MLS’ Inter Miami kept future in my hands
You either have to make people love you or you have to make them hate you, it doesn’t really matter either way. If you can’t bring that emotion out of your audience then you’re not going to have them for long.
The Undertaker
The Ringer – Kram – The Nuggets Reminded Everyone Why They’re the Favorites
TDN – Sherack – Wednesday’s Belmont Stakes Report: Rush Hour
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Kentucky Derby Misfortune Links A. P. Indy, Forte
Punch – Jireh – Is This Even Wine?
Rural Sprout – Besemer – Homemade Beet Wine – A Country Wine Recipe You’ve Got To Try
Never make predictions, especially about the future.
Casey Stengel
New York Times – Asimov – When Wine Becomes Crucial to Cultural Identity
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac Asimov
Bloodhorse – Mulvihill – Stacked Mott Barn Has Seven for Belmont Festival Stakes
SportsNet – Bourne – Where will Brad Treliving take the Maple Leafs? Decoding front office lingo
If you can’t beat ’em in the alley, you can’t beat ’em on the ice.
Conn Smythe
Bloodhorse – Byron King – FOX Bringing ‘A Team’ for Belmont Stakes Broadcast
Bloodhorse – Angst – A Belmont Stakes at Saratoga? It’s an Option
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Belmont Distance May be Heavenly for Angel of Empire
Paulick Report – Belmont Stakes: Angel Of Empire Attempting To End 132-Year Drought
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
Fran Lebowitz
Bloodhorse – Karen M Johnson – Castellano Looking for Another Career First
Bloodhorse – Gash – Belmont Contenders Stack Up in Sales Ring
Bloodhorse – Dr. Larry Bramlage – Our Voices: More Medication Not the Answer for Racing
Bloodhorse – Joe Perez – Declining Number of Equine Vets a Cause for Concern
As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color and fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.
Buddha
Sports Illustrated – Wilton Jackson – Suns Plan to Waive Chris Paul, per Report
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Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes.
Don Vito Corleone
TDN – Mattress Mack Honored as Jockeys and Jeans Person of the Year
Paulick Report – Ray Paulick – View From The Eighth Pole: Why Is It So Hard To Learn From The Past?
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
ESPN – AP – Forte slight 5-2 fave for Belmont Stakes over Tapit Trice
The Ringer – Derek Thompson – Why So Many Young Men Are Lonely, Sexless, and Extremely Online
Smithsonian – Parks – How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers
I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.
Dylan Thomas
Polygon – Conrad – The 10 best summer books for your 2023 beach trips
DRF – Grening – Belmont Stakes: Baffert to have first runners in New York since March 2022
FORTHEWIN! – Curtis – Top Chef fans are crushed Padma Lakshmi will no longer host
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E
Eat all the junk food you want – as long as you cook it yourself. That way, it’ll be less junky, and you won’t eat it every day because it’s a lot of work.
Michael Pollan
Bon Appetit – Sommelier Tries 20 Rosé Wines Under $20
If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you’ve got to go for speed.
Sparky Anderson
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Bricks and Mortar 2-Year-Old Shines in Debut at Hanshin
Yet even the relatively small faction of Republicans opposed to returning Mr. Trump to power may be leery of Mr. Christie. He not only provided a key early endorsement in 2016, he led his presidential transition, and was passed over for some top jobs while serving as an informal adviser and debate coach through the 2020 election.
“Now you found Jesus?” questioned Rick Wilson, who was an outspoken Republican critic of Mr. Trump before leaving the party entirely. “And now you’re going to be the guy to take the fight to Trump?”
It’s not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
Jack Benny
Phil has a question:
How do American politicians find the time to run the country when they are perpetually campaigning.
TDN – Dirt, Turf, and Synthetic by the Numbers
Phil has a question:
Will PETA and the more radical animal activists be satisfied with a reduction in horse deaths and not the elimination of horse deaths.
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
Igor Stravinsky
Money won. It always has. Maybe it always will. The challenge is figuring out if the morality was always just part of a public relations move to survive or if money changed their minds. But Tuesday was maybe the most impactful yet in stripping away the norms of professional sports and laying it bare as a money-making enterprise above all else.
The Ringer – Kevin Clark – The Cowardly End of Golf’s Civil War
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Sports Business Journal – Facing the Music
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Igor Stravinsky
Front Office Sports – AJ Perez – PGA Tour-LIV Golf Merger Likely to Face Regulator Scrutiny
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de Balzac
Sports illustrated – Traina – Samantha Rivera on Going Viral for the Stiff Arm Seen ’Round the World
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley
The 500-unit chain will use the proceeds from the sale-leaseback deal to repay debt, fund capital projects and buy back stock.
Restaurant Business – Guzkowski – Red Robin sells 9 stores for $29M in sale-leaseback deal
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
Angela Carter
Bloodhorse – Karen M Johnson – On the Rise: Sara Elbadwi
In a phone interview from prison with Mr. Asimov, he dismissed the seriousness of his crime, saying that his victims were just a law firm, an insurance company and a bank. “It’s not exactly like sticking up an old lady,” he said.
NY Times – Maag – ‘Never Seen Pizza Boxes at a Wake Before’: Mourning a N.Y. Pizza Legend
People in China say: ‘If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.
Li Na
New York, you are an Egypt! But an Egypt turned inside out. For she erected pyramids of slavery to death, and you erect pyramids of democracy with the vertical organ-pipes of your skyscrapers all meeting at the point of infinity of liberty!
Salvador Dalí
You can write songs in New York because it’s not always perfect. To write a good song, things can’t be perfect.
Tom Odell
Paulick Report – Michael Copeland Appointed CEO Of Woodbine Entertainment
TDN – Thornton – 6-Mo. Extension to Maryland Racing Agreement; Details Not Disclosed
TDN – Dan Ross – Proposed HISA Rule Change: Emergency Power to Suspend Live Racing?
The Ringer – Mahoney – Six Degrees of Jeff Green
The Ringer – Harvilla – ‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: ‘If It Makes You Happy,’ Sheryl Crow
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Paulick Report – Nevills – Making Claims: Let’s Talk About That CNN Interview With Dr. Mick Peterson
Bloodhorse – ANZ Bloodstock Newstaff – Racing in Singapore Set to End in October 2024
Elle – Giannini – Searching for Meg White
Phil has a question:
What city was the Saskatchewan stop on the 2007 White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights tour that stopped in every Canadian province.
DRF – Grening – Belmont Stakes: Arcangelo sneaks in surprise workout
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Belmont Notebook: National Treasure Swift in Final Work
The Athletic – Vardon – Miami Heat’s big NBA Finals surprise? Turning to Kevin Love for defense
National Post – Frank Stronach: Healthy school lunches, the greatest gift we can give our children
The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough
Yotam Ottolenghi
Southern Living – Rick Bragg Sets The Record Straight On What Makes The Best Tomato Sandwich
There’s a point of no return when you’re cooking tomatoes. A little too much heat, a little too long in the pot, and you lose that sense of fresh ripeness that makes tomatoes so great.
Geoffrey Zakarian
12 Tomatoes – Winters – Italian Grandmas Line The Street And Make Pasta Outside Their Homes
Garden and Gun – The Skillet – Clements – A New Orleans Nana’s Tomato Sauce
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Miles Kington
Serious Eats – Achitoff-Gray – How the Science of Salt Can Improve Your Tomatoes
Nothing feels quite so good as pouring salt in an open wound.
Tammy Blackwell
Southern Living – Holland – Why Southerners Love To Salt Their Watermelon
The Takeout – Pagan – Things Just Keep Getting Worse for Beyond Meat
The Burger Barn fries are not quite as well salted as they once were, but the Burger Barn chefs understand that applying salt just as the fries come out of the fryer creates that to die for melding of salt, grease and potato. Add one of their burgers and an old fashioned milkshake, Phil’s favourite is licorice, and you’re set for the day.
Phil has a question:
What is a New Yorker milkshake.
Fat gives things flavor.
Julia Child
The Gothamist – Casey – This Is The ‘New Yorker’ Milkshake. Yes, That’s Cheesecake.
TDN – Wagering in 2023 Continues Slight Decline Through May
The Takeout – Hasiotis – 11 of the Best Fictional Chefs of All Time
I once took a ride to the beach in L.A., and all along the shore there were all these so-called jazz places. And I saw these college guys and session players playing this fusion Muzak stuff. It was just a lot of notes, and the more notes they played, the more it kept them from expressing anything. So I came back home and got out my Zeppelin albums.
Jeff Buckley
TDN – Ransom – Where Are They Now? When One Grade I Winner Isn’t Enough
The right vehemently has attacked anything they deem “woke,” though they have repeatedly failed to define what it even means. As the GOP sharpen their claws and gear up try to take over White House next year, instances like these remind us that they will never rely on reason, intelligence or principle when it comes to policy and legislation. It will always thrive on hate, discrimination and racism—pillars that have upheld the party since its inception.
New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.
Djuna Barnes
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighierile
Brisnet – Reilly – In Italian leads Just a Game; War Like Goddess tackles Brown quartet in New York
ESPN – Shilton – Clearing up the confusion on Florida panthers
Bernardo was sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 25 years. But Justice Patrick LeSage additionally designated him a dangerous offender, which means the sentence was indeterminate. He could be kept behind bars for his entire life. From the bench, LeSage turned to the convicted murderer and said: “Mr. Bernardo … You have no right ever to be released. The behavioural restraint that you require is jail. You require it, in my view, for the rest of your natural life. You are a sexually sadistic psychopath.”
The Toronto Star – DiManno – Paul Bernardo does not deserve any deliverance
Phil has a question:
How many judges would have the balls to issue that sentence and statement today.
Has DiManno ever seen Deliverance.
FiveThirtyEight – Skelley – Why Some Republican Candidates Might Not Make The Debate Stage
Sports Business Journal – A’s Vegas ballpark bill not passed before deadline
ESPN – Stanley Cup Final 2023: What we learned in Game 2
Front Office Sports – McCarthy and AJ Perez – NHL Analyst Chris Chelios Won’t Be Renewed By ESPN
The best sports interview was many years ago when the sports reporter was interviewing Patrick Roy about something that Patrick’s father had told him. Patrick leaned over and asked the reporter: “Can you keep a secret?” “Yes” replied the reporter who was busting at the seams as he anticipated getting the scoop on what Roy senior had told Patrick. Patrick leaned over and said: “So can I.”
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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.
Casey Stengel
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
Bacinos – 25 Best Pizza Places in Manhattan, NY
Mental Floss – Mayer – A Brief History of Pizza
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
Yogi Berra
Phil has a question:
Do any other trainers have a street named after them.
The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that’s not as fun as saying, ‘You can cook a pizza on the windowsill in nine seconds.’ And next time my fans eat pizza, they’re thinking of Venus!
Neil deGrasse Tyson
If you’re ordering chain, you’re a person with poor taste. Everyone lives near a pizza place that’s better than a chain. They can’t stand up to a local pizzeria.
Dave Portnoy
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.
Mike Royko
I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
Al Pacino
An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
Anthony Bourdain
Sex is like pizza: if you’re going to use BBQ sauce, you better know what the fuck you’re doing.
Oliver Markus Malloy
Bacinos – Why Does Round Pizza Come In A Square Box?
Phil has a question:
When you check all the boxes are they round or square.
When you think outside the box is the box round, square, rectangular, triangular, oblong, elliptical, dodecagonal, conical or flat.
12 Tomatoes – Heichelbech – Detroit Style Square Pizza
The Hustle – Rylah – Is American cheese due for a comeback?
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Charles Dickens
The Ringer – O’Connor – Seven NBA Observations on Nuggets-Heat, Ja Morant, and Coaching Changes
The Ringer – Kram – The Heat Can Win at Sea Level or a Mile High
Sports Illustrated – Mannix – Heat Give Nuggets a Needed Wake-Up Call
The Ringer – Pina – Did Nikola Jokic Dominate Just Like the Heat Wanted Him To?
You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
Bruce Lee
The Ringer – Chin – ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Is a Multiversal Masterpiece
America’s Best Racing – Pedulla – Sunday Silence: The Star No One Wanted
How can you think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra
Bloodhorse – Catching Up With Old Friends: Touch Gold
We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they’re called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.
Joel Fuhrman
While Phil was researching New York tunes for the Belmont Preview and Review it came to Phil’s attention that while Shea stadium had quite a few famous concerts the actual number of concerts at Shea was smaller than one would expect. Phil contrasted that with what Tim Reid, the idiot who put the final brush strokes on the demise of of Edmonton Northlands and is now working on destroying REAL, had planned for the never constructed concert venue where the remains of the race track and barns still stand. If a stadium in a city that has almost as many people as the 4 western provinces combined is not having weekly outdoor concerts then how did Reid think that a city with 1/10th of the population of New York would support the venues he was proposing.
The better question is who at Edmonton Northlands and now REAL missed the boat when vetting Reid’s credentials. With the ability to fact check that the Internet provides it’s unadulterated negligence to not vet the CV of someone you’re hiring for a tough level executive position. Any horseplayer knows that past performance is a much truer indicator of future performance than pie in the sky fantasizing. With Tim Reid at the helm the Edmonton Northlands steamship struck the proverbial iceberg head on, but there’s still a chance that the residents of the city of Regina wake up before REAL becomes UNREAL.
The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.
Don Vito Corleone
With roughly 56,000 fans in attendance, this was the largest concert at Commonwealth since Garth Brooks played the stadium in 2022. The concert was attended by fans from across the country as Edmonton and Vancouver are the only Canadian stops on Comb’s 2023 world tour.
Edmonton Journal – Parker – Review: Luke Combs led a night of big country at Commonwealth
CTV News – Maess – Regina outbid on two major summer stadium concerts: REAL
You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes
John Wooden
Phil has a question:
Did the dog used to eat Tim Reid’s homework.
Is is not about time for Regina city council to call bullshit.
SportsNet – Remparts take down Thunderbirds for third Memorial Cup title
Paulick Report – Study: Is Evolution Driving Improvements In Racehorse Speed?
Money’s Too Tight (To Mention)
Sometimes, all you can do is watch things burn, and wait for the ash to settle.
Jodi Picoult
Paulick Report – Belmont Notes: National Treasure Slated To Breeze Monday
Bloodhorse – Geaux Rocket Ride Wins Affirmed, Eyeing Haskell
TDN – Candy Ride’s Geaux Rocket Ride Much The Best In Affirmed
The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
Matsuo Basho
Bloodhorse – McCroskey – War Like Goddess Faces Tough Field in New York Stakes
I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.
Ernest Hemingway
Southern Living – Yarborough – Why Bridge Is The Best Card Game That Everyone’s Forgotten
Bloodhorse – Kieckhefer – Owner Brant, Trainer Brown Loom Big in Just a Game
In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.
John F. Kennedy
Bloodhorse – Joe Perez – Declining Number of Equine Vets a Cause for Concern
Front Office Sports – Eric Fisher – Bears Make Surprise Move, Open Stadium Talks With Naperville
The 2023 Tale of Two Cities stars Chicago where the Bears are being courted by every conceivable Illinois municipality while in Phoenix Gary Bettman’s failed pet project the Coyotes are being shown the door to the desert.
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Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.
Chuck Palahniuk
Daily Beast – Porch – How to Tackle a Bullying, Alcoholic, Racist Named Hemingway
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
Esquire – D’Agostino – Harrison Ford Has Stories to Tell
Phil’s reprising Sal:
Sal says that while Phil was able to read and post select writings from the NY Times – The Rail Blog all we’re left with today is the NY Times – Hoppert and Drape – Belmont 2017: Our Predictions to Win, Place and Show.
Sal doesn’t want to shatter your illusions that thoroughbred racing is prospering when the amount of landscape that thoroughbred racing retains in the major and minor newspapers’ sports sections couldn’t grow a handful of radishes.
And in 2023 we will not see or hear as much about the Belmont and thoroughbred racing as we did in 2017. And much of what we won’t see in 2023 is behind internet pay walls where you pay with cash or personal information discouraging racing fans both new and old from reading it. And much of what we do see will be negative publicity dealing with the recent spate of horse deaths at major tracks.
Phil’s reprising, but the message remains the same:
University of Waterloo – Drug testing athletes now easier
Phil has a question:
How much do you think that drug testing has improved in the 5 years since that article was written.
How much do you think that the cheaters have improved in the 5 years since that article was written.
How quickly will AI make drug testing quicker and cheaper.
How quickly will AI make cheating quicker, less detectable and cheaper.
Is it not time for a re-education of trainers on the methodology of testing.
How many trainers don’t understand that this isn’t the good old days where the labs could only test for a couple of things at a time at a great cost.
Is is not time for a re-education of the regulators on the methodology of testing.
Paulick Report – Trainer Nick Dilodovico: ‘There’s Still So Much To Learn’
New York Times – Drape – Churchill Downs to Cease Racing as It Investigates Deaths of Horses
NY Times – Drape – At Churchill Downs, Humans Failed the Horses Again
NY Times – Mather – Why Do They Euthanize Racehorses Who Break Their Legs?
TDN – Multiple Arrests in Pre-Dawn Raids on Derby Day
Bloodhorse – KHRC: No Common Variable in Recent Equine Fatalities
TDN – Thornton – Q&A on Churchill/Ellis with Track Surfaces Expert Mick Peterson
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Churchill Downs Suspends Meet; Dates to Shift to Ellis
TDN – Bill Finley – Churchill Downs to Suspend Meet, Move Racing to Ellis Park
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Pletcher Facing Equine Medication Positives in Florida
University of Waterloo – Drug testing athletes now easier
Phil has a question:
Is it not time for a re-education of trainers on the methodology of testing.
I’ll go on was my mantra before I ever knew what a mantra was.
Tina Turner
The Ringer – Renaldo – Tina Turner and the All-Too-Radical Existence of the Black Woman Rock Star
Turner often said she did not relate to the “invincible” persona that others put on her. “I don’t necessarily want to be a ‘strong’ person,” she told the New York Times. “I had a terrible life. I just kept going. You just keep going, and you hope that something will come.”
The Guardian – Snapes – Tina Turner: legendary rock’n’roll singer dies aged 83
Garden and Gun – Ace Atkins – Simply the Best: A Southerner’s Ode to Tina Turner
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
Mental Floss – Partridge – When Tina Turner Set a Guinness World Record
NY Times – Mir – The Newest High-End Amenity: Houses That Come With Horses
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
Joseph Heller
The Ringer – Lazic – With ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ Scorsese Tells the Ultimate Gangster Story
I think it is very important that films make people look at what they’ve forgotten.
Spike Lee
Garden and Gun – Liles – Chasing the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
Charles Darwin
The Ringer – Harvilla – ‘60 Songs That Explain the ’90s’: All Hail Beck, King of the Losers
If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often.
Leonard Cohen
Sometimes Phil just has to succumb to the Urge.
Southern Living – Milstein – Grandpa’s Favorite Tomato Recipes For Any Summer Meal
Southern Living – 9 Companion Plants You Should Never Grow With Tomatoes (And 5 You Should)
Phil has a question:
Have any of these groups been consulting with Snoopy.
Southern Living – Yarborough – The South’s Most Iconic Recipes of All Time
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway
The Bitter Southerner – Alison Law – 2023 Summer Reading Roundup
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
Joseph Heller
Garden and Gun – Gidick – Planting a Pollinator’s Paradise
SportsNet – Sachdeva – How Alphabet Sports Collective is bringing together hockey’s LGBTQ+ community
Definition of rock sports journalism: People who can’t write, doing interviews with people who can’t talk, in order to prepare articles for people who can’t read.
TSN – Treliving to be hired as Leafs general manager
The team with the best players wins.
Jack Welch
SportsNet – Luke Fox – Why the Brad Treliving hiring by the Maple Leafs makes the most sense
Phil has a question:
Is MLSE’s goal to win Championships or to just keep selling tickets.
Does Luke Fox know the difference between an objective reporter and a shill.
Is Luke Fox as stupid as his columns read or is he just writing down so that Leaf Fans can understand.
Does Luke Fox not understand that the reason that Johnny G and the Turtle both wanted out of Cow Town was that something was inherently wrong with Treveling’s team’s atmosphere and as GM he has to take the heat for that.
If New York is the Big Apple is Toronto the Little Road Apple.
Are the scribes in TO pleased with the hiring of Treliving because of his skills as a GM or because he constantly fucks up and makes weeks of easy press trying to fix the messes he makes.
How bad of a contract will Treliving give Matthews to keep him in the LRA.
Does Phil know the difference between a and some.
Does Phil care.
If you’re ordering chain, you’re a person with poor taste. Everyone lives near a pizza place that’s better than a chain. They can’t stand up to a local pizzeria.
Dave Portnoy
Sometimes Phil just has to succumb to the Urge.
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football hockey a game or a religion? The people of this country Canada have allowed sports hockey to get completely out of hand.
Howard Cosell, as updated by Phil
SportsNet – Treliving to make decision on Keefe’s ‘unique situation’ a priority as Maple Leafs GM
Phil has a question:
Has Sutter sent his CV in for the LRA coaching job.
SportsNet – Penguins hire former Maple Leafs GM Kyle Dubas as president of hockey operations
SportsNet – New Penguins president Dubas to handle GM duties on an ‘interim basis’
Phil has a question:
Do you think that Dubas would have hired Treliving for the Penguins.
The honeymoon phase always ends, for everyone.
Rose Leslie
Sometimes Phil just has to succumb to the Urge.
SportsNet – Treliving the leading candidate to replace Dubas as Maple Leafs GM
Phil has a question:
How could the Leafs even think about putting Brad Treliving on their Gardiner Freeway Long list let alone hiring him when the player he failed to keep with the Flames has strapped the Panthers on the top of his shell and is leading them in their quest for the Cup.
Did the Leafs even interview the girl with the short skirt and long jacket.
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.
Peter Drucker
Front Office Sports – Could ESPN Be In Bob Myers’ Future?
ESPN – Wojnarowski – Warriors president-general manager Bob Myers steps down
Phil has a question:
What would it have taken for the Leafs to lure Myers.
What would it take for the NHL to lure Myers as their Commissioner.
SportsNet – Spencer Carbery’s inevitable departure from Maple Leafs a win for Capitals
The Athletic – Portzline – Mike Babcock is the Blue Jackets’ choice for coach — but why him?
SportsNet – Panthers’ Tkachuk cracks jokes with Shaq, Barkley on Inside The NBA
Sports Business Journal – South Florida faces busy June with NBA, NHL Finals
Southern Living – Barnes – Duncan Hines Was A Real Person—And A Southerner
Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don’t want it, someone else does and a good deed ain’t never forgotten.
TDN – Petrunyak – Belmont Tune Ups Include Final Works from Cox Barn Trio
Paulick Report – Belmont Notes: Forte, Tapit Trice Post Final Works For Pletcher
Bloodhorse – Rollins and Mulvihill – Major Dude Overcomes Major Trouble to Win Penn Mile
TDN – Bolt d’Oro Colt is the Dude in Penn Mile
Bloodhorse – Ehalt – Kalik Leads Throughout in Slow-Paced Pennine Ridge
TDN – Carasso – Collected’s Kalik Wires Pennine Ridge
Bloodhorse – Rollins and Mulvihill – Gunite Pulls Away in Aristides; Webslinger Wins Audubon
TDN – Carasso – American Pharoah Filly Bags Summertime Oaks
Bloodhorse – Ganz – Window Shopping Delivers in Summertime Oaks
Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Bloodhorse – Mulvihill – Rick Dutrow Granted Kentucky Trainer’s License
TDN – Thornton – Dutrow Licensed to Train in Kentucky
She Came In Through the Bathroom Window
Bloodhorse – McCroskey – Two Phil’s Bypasses Belmont, Headed to Ohio Derby
DRF – Hersh – Two Phil’s will skip Belmont Stakes, points to Ohio Derby
Praise in public; criticize in private.
Vince Lombardi
The promotional banners inside and outside the course boasted of the Derby being ‘historic, unmatchable, eternal’. The first two are undeniable. The third, we hope, is a claim we will not have to abandon any time soon.
TDN – Emma Berry – Continents Collide as Derby Prevails Under Duress
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Porteous – O’Brien Wins Record-Breaking Derby With Auguste Rodin
Bloodhorse – Forte, Tapit Trice Post Final Breezes Before Belmont
Bloodhorse – Belmont Contender Il Miracolo Drills at Gulfstream
TDN – Pretty Mischievous Drills Towards Acorn
Bloodhorse – Rollins – Cox Adds Tapit Shoes to His Belmont Lineup
If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be much greater. The ‘art of leaving off’ at the right time, and in the right place, is one of the most difficult things to learn.
William Lloyd Garrison
Bloodhorse – Gash – Thrashes Transfer Four Horses From Cox to Davis
Bloodhorse – Arcangelo Breezes Five Furlongs Toward Belmont Stakes
Dirty Horse Club – A Heads-Up on The Belmont Stakes
TDN – HISA Issues Churchill Downs Update
Bloodhorse – Byron King – ‘Urgency Became Clear’ to Address Churchill Fatalities
Paulick Report – Voss: On Churchill Fatalities, HISA, And The Answers We May Not Find
TDN – Mack – Op/Ed: No More Dirt
Phil has a question:
Do you think that PETA and the other animal rights advocates will be satisfied with a reduction in fatalities.
There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
Janine di Giovanni
Bloodhorse – Downey – Judge: Stewards’ Action in Justify Case Lacks Clarity
Magic Valley – The Eighth Pole – Peter Monaco – The life and times of a 1970s New York horseplayer
TDN – McPeek: Swing High, Swing Hard
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about god while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan Watts
Bloodhorse – Racing Post – Harry Wilson – Soul Sister Gives Dettori Group 1 Double in Oaks
Paulick Report – Frankie Dettori ‘Stuck For Words’ After Final Epsom Oaks Triumph Aboard Soul Sister
If they think we’ve got an edge, we’ve got an edge.
Red Auerbach
Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we’re all in the soup.
Red Auerbach
The Ringer – Pina – The Heat Deliver One More Miracle to Off the Celtics
Sports Illustrated – Mannix – Heat’s Trademark Toughness Puts Miami on the Right Side of History
ESPN – Friedell – Heat stomp Celtics in Game 7, carry dream run into NBA Finals
The Ringer – The 40 Best TV Finales of the 21st Century, Ranked
Texas Monthly – The List: The Top 50 Barbecue Joints in Texas
Nevermore.
The Raven
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
Howard Cosell
Phil has a piece of advice for Mike Pence:
Go fuck yourself.
I’m not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.
Johan Cruyff
It sure sounded as if a conclusion has already been reached, or at least something close to it. But the choice was made, as Silver intimated, to delay all those unflattering headlines while hoping against hope that the general public finds these Finals compelling in the meantime.
TSN – Silver says Morant not being charged with a crime won’t prevent NBA penalties
Phil has a question:
How many games will the taunting manner of Morant’s actions add.
DRF – Grening – Belmont Stakes: National Treasure shows plenty of energy in return to work tab
TDN – National Treasure on Track for Belmont
Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
Langston Hughes
Bloodhorse – Arabian Knight Returns to Work Tab at Santa Anita
DRF – Grening – White Abarrio works five furlongs ahead of Met Mile
Mental Floss – Debczak – The 48 Biggest Summer Blockbusters of the Past Half Century
Front Office Sports – A.J. Perez – Lawyer Questions Authenticity of Brian Davis’ Claims
Front Office Sports – A.J. Perez – Questions Mount in Brian Davis’ Lawsuit Over Commanders Sale
If a manager of mine ever said someone was indispensable, I’d fire him.
Charlie O. Finley
Front Office Sports – Cohen – Oakland A’s Release Renderings For $1.5B Las Vegas Ballpark
SportsNet – Spector – Why it’s time for NHL to move on from the Arizona Coyotes soap opera
TSN – Cassidy apologizes for Coyotes barb: ‘It was a dumb thing to say’
Bloodhorse – Dr. Schivel Targets True North After Comeback Win
Nickelback: The soundtrack of Miami’s NBA Finals run. From Hanna, Alberta, about a three-hour drive from where I grew up. I saw them at the Junos, a Canadian award show, a few months ago. Their lawyer was one of the first people they thanked. There’s probably a story there.
The Ringer – Sohi – A Semiserious Guide to the 2023 NBA Finals
Phil has a question:
If everyone hates Nickelback as much as they say, why do they keep selling records and making money.
Nathaniel gets it.
ESPN – Wyshynski – Stanley Cup Final: Lapsed fan’s guide to Panthers-Knights
In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.
Lou Holtz
Food and Wine – A Special Digital Issue: 40 Years of the Food & Wine Classic
Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty
Don Vito Corleone
The Ringer – Holmes – Are the ‘SNL’ White Boys OK?
The Ringer – Siegel – With or Without You: The Oral History of the ‘Americans’ Finale
Give me such shows — give me the streets of Manhattan!
Walt Whitman
Paulick Report – Kentucky Derby Runner Reincarnate To Skip Belmont Stakes, Target Travers Stakes
Phil has a question:
When the Packers’ chose to move up in the draft and select a future QB were they trying to win a Super Bowl or trying to ensure future ticket sales.
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe
Los Angeles Times – GOP-controlled Texas House votes to impeach Republican Atty. Gen. Ken Paxton
Food and Wine – Isle – The Best Way to Learn How to Pair Wine Is to Eat Potato Chips
We need to take vegetables out of the role of side dish, even in low-fat, vegetarian diets, whose calories are generally derived mainly from grains and other starches.
Joel Fuhrman
The Ringer – Chin – How Many Spider-Characters Can the Spider-Verse Hold?
Sports Business Journal – A’s potential Tropicana ballpark facing pushback from Las Vegas lawmakers
Paulick Report – Belmont Notes: Red Route One Breezes Half Mile
DRF – Grening – Belmont Stakes: Red Route One, Raise Cain put in slow works
Men’s Health – Samuel – Arnold Schwarzenegger Explains His Olympia-Era PED Use
Front Office Sports – A.J. Perez – Judge Sides With MLB, Orders Diamond Sports to Pay Up
Sports Business Journal – Judge rules Diamond must pay MLB teams’ fees
Front Office Sports – MLB’s Rob Manfred Says Sinclair Exec Threatened Bankruptcy
The Ringer – Surrey – ‘Yellowjackets’ Is Biting Off More Than It Can Chew
Front Office Sports – A.J. Perez – Padres Land New Broadcast Home Amid Diamond Sports Debacle
Texas Monthly – If a Texas Bee Summers in California, Is Its Honey Still Texan?
Garden and Gun – Luna – Meet the Muralist Covering the World’s Walls with Honeybees
Have you ever really loved a woman.
Paulick Report – Tinky: The Met Mile Rescheduling A Business Win? Not So Fast, Ray
When you are using social media, remember the mantra “think more, share less.
Paulick Report – Chicago Bears To Explore Other Stadium Options Besides Arlington Park
The Province – Randy Goulding: Hastings Racecourse has experienced analyst in Bailey Williams
Hors D’oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
Jack Benny
Grub Street – Marcus – The Cat Who Could Kill Horses
I do not like them in a house. I do not like them with a mouse.
Dr. Seuss
The Province – Goulding – Hall of Fame jockey happy to be back at Hastings
The New Yorker – Galchen – What Is a Weed?
What’s the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don’t yield to them?
P.G. Wodehouse
Intelligencer – Danner – Why Do Orcas Keep Messing With Boats in Southern Europe?
DRF – Grening – Belmont Stakes: Forte moves one step closer to getting off vet’s list
Bloodhorse – Hearing Officer Upholds Medina Spirit DQ
New York now leads the world’s great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn’t make a sudden move.
David Letterman
The Ringer – Prestige TV Has Taken a Page Out of Sportswriting’s Media Playbook
Bloodhorse – Forte Breezes for Belmont, Kingsbarns Out After Colic
Paulick Report – WATCH: Forte Pleases Pletcher With Belmont Breeze
TDN – Forte, Angel of Empire, Hit Show Lead Belmont Work Tab; Kingsbarns Ruled Out
Bloodhorse – Churchill Seeks Answers on High Number of Fatalities
You can observe a lot by watching.
Yogi Berra
Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes.
Don Vito Corleone
CBC – Larsen – Vancouver’s Donnelly Group of bars and restaurants files for creditor protection
Bloodhorse – Byron King – Tapit Trice Could Become Tapit’s Fifth Belmont Winner
TDN – National Treasure Jogs At Belmont; Taiba To Met Mile
Phil has a question:
When will Gary Bettman and the NHL get half a brain and bump the draft age up by a year.
When will the NHL owners get a quarter of a brain and get rid of Gary Bettman and get a real Commissioner.
SportsNet – Fox – Bettman talks Senators sale, Coyotes trouble, second Toronto team and more
Front Office Sports – Why the NHL Is Trusting a Cable Channel with the Stanley Cup
Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.
Chuck Palahniuk
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