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06-27-2011, 09:02 PM
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6/27 ATR: Josie Carroll, Lou Raffetto and more.. ("Best Of" Tues.)
Miss Monday ATR? Catch 6-9a ET replay Tuesday with Josie Carroll on Inglorious & winning a 2nd Plate; Lou Raffetto on the TOC post and CA's future; A comprehensive Breeders' Cupdate with Jim Gluckson; NYRA's Neema Ghazi previewing the Saratoga Preview, plus XpressBet's Johnny D. & HRTV's Jon White! Sirius 93 or XM 209 & Archive-Podcast-Stream at http://www.stevebyk.com
9:00 - Opening 9:15 - Calls 9:30 - JOSIE CARROLL 9:45 - LOU RAFFETTO 10:00 - Lou plus JOHNNY D. 10:15 - " 10:30 - " 10:45 - NEEMA GHAZI 11:00 - JON WHITE 11:15 - " 11:30 - JIM GLUCKSON 11:45 - " TUESDAY... Travel Day for me, so it's "Best Of" At the Races featuring the Triple Crown interviews with Graham Motion & Johnny V., Dale Romans & Jesus Castanon, Kelly Breen plus Steve Haskin and Rich Migliore!
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984. 
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06-28-2011, 06:00 AM
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Lou Raffetto - from a content standpoint - was absolutely brutal. Made me want to vomit just listening to him.
* On the takeout raise: We get the arrows slung at us, but everyone was onboard with it - not just us. * On exchange wagering: We need to be as careful as possible and really wait on this. We have to focus especially on who gets what cut. Also, there is the possibility of corruption with this. And he put the icing on the cake with his unbridled excitement over racetracks having a golden chance to manuver lawmakers into letting horse racing run Internet Poker. Strike #1: Not admitting that the takeout hike was a complete steaming pile of sh!t and whoever thought of it and "was on board with it" - be it one person or "everybody" - is incredibly fucl<ing stupid. Strike #2: If you take too big of a cut from exchange wagering - you defeat the advantages of it - and what should be a goldmine will turn into an absolute disaster. Also, regarding the possiblity of "incidents of corruption" - who gives a flying fucl<ing sh!t? If they happen, deal with them. Maybe he hits a Homerun on an 0-2 pitch count - if this attempt at a great effort to have lawmakers allow horse racing to run some Internet Poker works. I don't know anything about that. It's always about looking for some quick fix with these fucl<ing guys. Internet Poker is really now supposed to be horse racings new long-term answer? Steadily triming takeout in a slow healthy manner is no quick fix - but by about 50 years from now - it will create an awesome climate and the sport will be smelling like roses again. Exchange Wagering is a possible quick fix ... but you know these greedy fucl<ing retards are going to make a complete disaster out of it.
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06-28-2011, 11:59 AM
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Doug.
Understand all the above points and you're not wrong. In his defense, Raffetto was named to the position over the weekend... Let him get out there and navigate a bit. He certainly wouldn't get off on the right foot slamming previous missteps willy-nilly. Lou is a very smart guy who will try to win over the right lynchpins to push the peanut in the right direction. He's someone who will at least try to get the correct approaches instituted. Whether it's too late or whether he will meet too much resistence is the question. But give him a chance.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984.
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06-28-2011, 12:34 PM
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As smart as he may very well be - he said none of the right things on takeout - and all of the wrong things on betting exchanges. Good luck on his quest for a quick fix - maybe he can prove his worth and pull something off short term - even If he can, you can be sure it will be nothing to the long term benefit of horse racing. Instead of growing handle and improving the betting climate - these guys want to grow more Mike Wilbon's.
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06-28-2011, 12:36 PM
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I doubt it. Why is he even attempting to answer these questions if he just took the job?
Once again you get a guy people in the industry know to an extent so they let their guard down and allow incompetence to continue. One of the main problems is the horse racing industry is far too nepotistic and buddy-buddy.
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06-28-2011, 02:43 PM
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I wouldn't condemn Raffetto for offering answers to the questions I asked him. He starts in the job Friday... As to his hire, Raffetto's background is almost entirely East Coast based. I think the California people reached to him as someone who would bring at least a different regional perspective. Recognize that the issue with bringing in 'fresh blood'' from outside the industry is getting them up to speed with the intricacies of the job(s). Quote:
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984.
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06-28-2011, 08:17 PM
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Just going by what he said in the interview. By the way - the Maryland takeout reduction was for 10 days during Saratoga and Del Mar when they wanted to try and drum up business at a tough time for them in the racing calender. Lower takeout is not a gimmick or quick fix.
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06-28-2011, 09:21 PM
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#9
06-29-2011, 01:07 AM
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I'll tell you what else is very annoying to me after a browse of another board - the type of stuff coming from the HANA folks.
Yes, handle is down over $200 million in just 6 months in California since the takeout hike - and the majority of that decline has come on weekends when field sizes are better... big deal. That takeout hike is MUCH more devastating in the long term than the short term. $207 million lost in handle over 6 months - is just a squirt of piss in a very big bucket. No big deal compared to the massive self inflicted setback of making the game more of a suckers game for new bettors than it was six months ago. There was a time when baseball, boxing, and horse racing were the three big sports in this country. And coincidentally, I'm sure, some of the best horse bettors of that time made the equivlent of tens of millions of dollars in their best years, some of them dated well, and others were tabloid figures that newspapers obsessed over. Go and look for them now! They don't exsist anymore. A good portion of society today views horse bettors as lonely senior citizens or degenerate scumbags. ESPN tries to push the sport - and one of their guys like Mike Wilbon (Wilbon's own father loved horse racing and he was strongly exposed to it as a kid) can justifiably sh!t all over the sport. Do you think actresses still want to fucl< horse bettors? In so many ways, the sport is MILES better now than it was a hundred years ago ... but because they've reduced it to a suckers game - it suffers.
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