Derby Fever: Where 'stupid' is contagious

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Originally Posted by Merlinsky

It's never an isolated case. Someone else just caught 'stupid'. Folks shook their heads when Mine That Bird was a 'go' and now, it's officially an epidemic. Atomic Rain, if he has the earnings at a nauseatingly low $77,500 from his Remsen placing, is set to go per Kelly Breen of West Side Bernie fame. They're waiting to find out if 4 horses drop out by the looks of it. I'm guessing they don't make it but the fact that they're trying....

Look I know we can't innoculate people from Derby Fever but surely there's like a flu shot thingy where you can get a mild version of it ahead of time right? All Atomic Rain has done is break his maiden. What's his highest Beyer? Old Fashioned got a 100 in the Remsen whilst crushing the aforementioned Atomic Rain. (Yes I'm aware Hold Me Back was in that race but there's all sorts of questions about the form he had there so who knows if you can hold HMB to it.)

In an unrelated story, individuals from certain high schools, regardless of athletic ability, should not apply to Division I colleges -- they are foolish for wanting to play football for the NFL. The point totals they put on the board is clearly due to inferior competition.

Those without a country club membership, even with a high IQ, should not apply to Ivy League schools either -- be happy that they will easily let you into community college.

And why are those kids singing on American Idol? For a shot at a recording contract? Please....

The new American way: aggressively seek the minimum and mediocrity...higher aspirations be damned...seek to sustain a self-imposed caste system and never reach higher than eye-level.