Took awhile to read through the entire thread. Lots of issues to address here. Some good stuff here. I think we can all agree that the game will never be perfect.
It will be interesting to see what will be addressed in NTRA players panel and even more interesting to see the NTRA implement anything. Sorry, I don't hold much hope.
Let me throw out an idea that a few friends and I have discussed in the past few months.
The subject is NYRA. VLTs will help for awhile but, it's still gonna be sometime before they are up and running.
Why does NYRA not make an acquistion for the downstate OTBs? Money could be made "overnight" and NYRA could then make the improvements necessary for the 3 tracks. The upstate OTBs could be restructured to be more efficient. If anyone remembers, a multi million $ offer was made to MR. Bloomberg for NYCOTB and he balked. Now he's looking to shut them down.
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