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pweizer 04-23-2008 07:18 AM

Lauren Stich
 
Lauren Stich has been let go by the Daily Racing Form. She is the latest budget cut victim at the paper. Her last column is in today's edition. I spoke with Lauren this morning and she is understandably upset.

If anyone else is as dissapointed in this decision as I am and wants to make their feelings known, you can send an email to the 3 people who made this
decision:

Rich Rosenbush, Editor (rrosenbush@drf.com)
Brent Diamond, CEO (bdiamond@drf.com)
Steven Crist, Chairman& Publisher (scrist@drf.com)

Hopefully, if enough people write in, they will reconsider this terrible decision.

Paul

Rudeboyelvis 04-23-2008 07:52 AM

They've removed the sibling summaries from their pp's and now this... The product just keeps getting noticably crappier with every "budget saving" move they make... :mad:

emails are enroute... I seriously may not renew my subscription

Coach Pants 04-23-2008 08:00 AM

Maybe lowering the online subscription rates or having more subscription options would increase numbers?

I dunno.

:rolleyes:

lemoncrush 04-23-2008 08:47 AM

Steve and Lauren discussed this a couple weeks ago on ATR, and I agree, it's a real shame.
She's built a solid reputation in the industry, and will surely find avenues to work within. It's just too bad she was a victim of budget cuts after being with DRF for so long.

CSC 04-23-2008 09:00 AM

I enjoyed her pedigree analysis, if anything it brought a little variety to the publication.

Thunder Gulch 04-23-2008 09:03 AM

I like her columns, but she owes me $14.95 for the book that wasted 4 hours of my life

Coach Pants 04-23-2008 09:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698
Can we email those guys and thank them also?

!!OOOOOOOOOO!!

Maybe they're in the process of starting a Pedigree Ann Blog?

blackthroatedwind 04-23-2008 09:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pweizer
Lauren Stich has been let go by the Daily Racing Form. She is the latest budget cut victim at the paper. Her last column is in today's edition. I spoke with Lauren this morning and she is understandably upset.

If anyone else is as dissapointed in this decision as I am and wants to make their feelings known, you can send an email to the 3 people who made this
decision:


Rich Rosenbush, Editor (rrosenbush@drf.com)
Brent Diamond, CEO (bdiamond@drf.com)
Steven Crist, Chairman& Publisher (scrist@drf.com)

Hopefully, if enough people write in, they will reconsider this terrible decision.

Paul

I'm sorry for Lauren, and like her a lot, and I'm all for the rights of people to voice their displeasure with any decision but I'm not sure it's fair to label those three people as the ones who " made this decision. "

Cannon Shell 04-23-2008 10:48 AM

free Mike Watchmaker !!!!!

Scav 04-23-2008 10:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
I'm sorry for Lauren, and like her a lot, and I'm all for the rights of people to voice their displeasure with any decision but I'm not sure it's fair to label those three people as the ones who " made this decision. "

Didn't DRF just get bought or something, that would probably be who to target....

VOL JACK 04-23-2008 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis
They've removed the sibling summaries from their pp's and now this... The product just keeps getting noticably crappier with every "budget saving" move they make... :mad:

emails are enroute... I seriously may not renew my subscription

Removing the sibling summaries was a really dumb idea, imo. They have all the 'breezefigs' and other products that I don't waste my time with. Sib summaries are really helpful in the baby races.

eajinabi 04-23-2008 07:25 PM

Dan Illman is the Pedigree Guru at DRF

hockey2315 04-23-2008 08:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eajinabi
Dan Illman is the Pedigree Guru at DRF

Not compared to Lauren. . . Illman is more of an all-around handicapper compared to her. He does a lot of the baby stuff but she's the pedigree expert.

DCracing 04-23-2008 08:11 PM

and she is great every monday at 6 on the sirius show!

ddthetide 04-23-2008 08:54 PM

she's great with steve on the radio show. unfortunatly i've not read her colums but then i've not been able to buy a DRF locally for almost 2 years.

SlewsMyHero 04-23-2008 09:11 PM

Here's a pretty lame response from Steven Crist when interviewed by John Kelly on the Leroy's Sports Hour in Las Vegas on April 11. He was asked about Lauren leaving DRF:

http://96.227.210.29:8080/audio/Leroys20080411.mp3

hockey2315 04-23-2008 09:14 PM

Not sure why you think that response was lame. . .

SlewsMyHero 04-23-2008 09:18 PM

Crist: "I hope she'll still write for us when she's able to."

What the hell is that supposed to mean. They just let her go.

blackthroatedwind 04-23-2008 09:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SlewsMyHero
Crist: "I hope she'll still write for us when she's able to."

What the hell is that supposed to mean. They just let her go.


Maybe you should ask yourself what he might have been trying to tell you.


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