You know its Holiday Time in Albany when...
 

You know the holidays are upon you in the Albany, NY area when the OTB tv station starts playing some of the most depressing Christmas music you ever heard.
We don't have commentators on voicing over the gaps in races for the most parts, and at night and morning they just show a loop that cycles constantly with the entries at all the tracks they are taking that day. They play music all day long until the races go off and you get the call and picture.
Every year about this time, the music is switched to Christmas music in a minor key. They find a way to make even the cheeriest song morbid.
Its like you are sitting there, just blew a photo or a pik-3, and the saddest rendition of "WHite Christmas" you ever heard comes on, and you wanna step into the bathtub and drop in the toaster.

LOL!!!! Sounds like the soundtrack in an old B Horror flick!!!!! :D

I'm not at all kidding. Quite a few folks from here on this board and I'm sure they will confirm this. Its like the most depressing thing you ever heard.

I just watched the first race at Finger lakes(speed bias by the way, track is rock hard) and right now the absolute SADDEST version of "The First Noel" you ever heard in your life is playing on the channel. I'm like ready to cry.

Just hearing Rick W Parrys voice on Capital OTB makes me want to step in a tub with a toaster. He'll tell you there's a photo when there's a half length between horses.

That's the kind of bull**** music I have to listen to all freaking day long at work after Thanksgiving... YUCK! :mad:

BA HUMBUG!

Hahaha!
It's the most wonderful time of the year. I want to break things when I hear that song.

Pillow,they just switched to the saddest version of Jingle Bells in the world ever created.
I wish I could post the link to it.
You have no idea how bad this gets when you are alive in the pik-4 with like 4 horses and get nailed, and as you sit there digesting the loss you are hearing this "music to commit suicide by".

The holidays are so rough... I just want to cry! :(

If you were listening to what I am you WOULD be crying. I'm not kidding.
They could break prisoners with this music.

Oh I do. Last year I lost a pick-4 in the last leg by a frickin nose. The will pay was a little over $2800. As I sat lifeless for about 5 minutes I got a call from the missus that I had to go Christmas shopping and to meet her at the mall. I had to endure 5 hours of god awful christmas music and soccer moms and their hysterical kids, the kids who have this uncanny ability to bump into me while going 5 wide around a turn.

Yeah those little crumbsnatchers do tend to get in the way and cause "troubled trips".

Oh, I will be soon enough... just two more days of elevator music before I get to listen to melancholy Christmas music for the next month! AHHHH!!!

Is it worse than having this Yenta Rachael Ray on the T.V. ? Wow,that was on the T.V. for two minutes,and I would of paid good money to be able to change the station.

well they run greenly....and have a tendancy to break down if they are pushed too hard.

can't be...she's just awful. But then i haven't seen the NY OTB channel...

Rachel graduated from Lake George High up here and still spends her summers up here(as much as she can). I've never met her, but the people I know who do said shes cool as hell, and pretty wild.

Well I think some of them have not benefitted from the tighter use of the whip rules. Many need to be shown the stick at least, to keep them straight.

agreed... and it's time to let the medication rules go too...i only want to see heavily sedated well-behaved parasites (oops, children) @ the Mall

I agree, overuse of permissable medications has weakened the breed.

Cajun,
I couldn't possibly make this up. If you come to the town here in upstate nY where I live, you can see it with your own two eyes.
My next door neighbors still have their Halloween decorations up, bats, pumpkins and crazy blinking orange lights that they haven't figured out how to turn off. Next to them, the other neighbors have their plastic Santa on the roof and icicle lights.
Not to be outdone, I found my inflatable Rabbit that I bought last spring at Walmart and put him on my front lawn, along with the special "egg" lights that I also purchased on sale. I'm ready.
Folks that drive by are seen shaking their heads.
Now, if i could just find those fancy shamrocks and the inflatable four-leaf clover that I know is hiding somewhere in my garage, I'd make a statement.

WOW... LMAO! We're pretty traditional... the Halloween decorations were taken down right after Halloween, the Christmas decorations won't be put up until AFTER Thanksgiving and will come down immediately after New Years. LOL The Florida trailer trash (because that's all that's down here :rolleyes: )has all of the decorations up all season long. Why waste time by putting anything away? :D

Ah yes..Holidays on the Capital OTB channel
 

I think the music library is back from the 70's when Capital OTB owned the radio station WWWD in Schenectady!
Sometimes when Greg Digorio is announcing he plays some pretty weird, but good stuff.

you too are bad...and mike you must find someone to breed with..then you wont be so depressed..then again what am i saying..its for the best that you took a vow of ......so that others my live...

Whos depressed?
Dude I was kidding about the toaster. Ask Steve about it, he gets that channel as well. This music is the saddest thing you ever heard.

oracle, how do they make christmas music sad??........... a guy from long island is here visiting my work, said its freezing balls there....... he loves the 80 degree weather here in so. cal;)

LOL!!!
I'm tellin ya, you never heard anything like it. Its all in a minor key, and very slow. You have to mute it.

Greeeeeeeeeeat, as if the OTB isn't bad enough! (although the food on the Central Ave. one is pretty darn good) I look forward to this when I place my bets friday morning. Full report submitted when I get back. :cool: (assuming they are also playing it IN the OTB)

Music
 

The music originates from a licensed satellite service. OTBTV has no editorial power over what is played on that service. Over several years of talking with many customers about the background music some like it and some do not.

try Alice In Chains Unplugged to brighten your day.

I don't HATE alot of things in life but
 

Holiday music is ONE OF THEM. Seriously, it drives me nuts

Scavy, if/when you eventually have kids, there is no avoiding the holiday music. Hell, as soon as the turkey was eaten yesterday, they wanted Frosty the Snowman on the TV. Told them they had to at least wait until today.

Was rooting for your Salukis yesterday, that was a tough loss. They looked good though. Easily in the 64 and could/should make a nice run. Need to bounce back and take care of business today.