I had a lousy first week as well, with a couple of bad beats. Scaling back a little until the next time I head up there.

It breaks my heart that this thread fails to meet your standards.

i couldn't agree with you more?? (better??)

careful, there, kev, you're being very critical of the overly sensitive type.

Mark, while I don't know Andy that well and am unaware of all his behavior quirks, the very last thing I am concerned about is him being is overly sensitive.

Notyep

I edited the post, and it had more to do with its' odd and broadly insulting nature than anything.

Frankly, I found it insulting to me, and everyone here, as much as to any one person... unless I read it wrong. (Which is possible.)

I have little time to supervise the threads and I may have been overly zealous cutting that post. But I didn't care for the nastiness yestetday in the Selections thread and thought this had potential to create similar rancor.

this is begining to be like Pravda

sometimes in my small attempts at humor, nastiness ensues. edit away, but know that no true harm was meant. i only try to be mean when i can actually see others tears and not imagine them on their keyboard.

!!OOOOOOOOOO!!

My wife has one of those bags, OK it's a knock off.

Which is funny because sometime I knock up that old bag...my wife I mean.

Spyder

The list of worst threads ever is a long one.
Worst has no meaning.
Superlative bombardment.

I have had my butt handed to me all year. I am down 23% from this time last year. I haven't been able to wager on Saratoga other than a couple of times. I hope to change things around beginning today.

:eek: .. I laughed.

Well im glad to see that im not alone. This year has been very difficult for me wagering wise it just started bad and has gotten to the point to where ive pretty much stopped betting. I still get the DRF Wed/Sat/Sun and look at it and half ass cap it but i know that im not betting so that makes it hard to be serious. Just seems that i have zigged when they have zagged and hockey makes a good point in that i cant tell you how many times ive looked at the pp's of a longshot winner and can't for the life of me tell you how i could have bet that horse. Thats a bad feeling. Good luck to you guys that are down.

11 winners on top the first two days of week #2 :) :$: .....a lot better than week #1 :zz:

Well judging by the DT meet contest many of us are getting off to a slow start. I believe I am close to perfecting a system for picking second place horses as I seem to come up short on a continuous basis.

Just have to keep swinging.

Spyder

Kev:
Take a whole week off, cut the meet short. Get a recharge and knock off the stress for a week or so. This weekend's races pretty much blow, so it would be a good weekend to do something more constructive and fruitful like play golf or go on a date. If you keep trying to dig out of the whole every day, the hole you are in right now might seem pretty shallow. Wait until later in the meet, it will be worth it.

I prefer the ole' Jim Valvano method...."dont give up, don't ever give up":D

I bet one horse, Notional in the Whitney and lost.

If you don't have 50 hours a week to dedicate to Saratoga, I don't think you can beat it. Everyone ships, everyone wants to win there, etc.... You have to closely follow 3-4 circuits leading up to it to have a shot.

prada perhaps?? lol certainly not a pravda knock off?!