Curlin's my offical top pick

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by fpsoxfan

Hoss....C'mon be honest with yourself...Would you please? There was bitterness...Did you read? I admittted that. Several times I came back and aplogized for stupid comments. My point was I'm not impressed with someone that can pick the morning line Derby favorite and second choice in the Preakness. The Wager is also questionable. A heavy backwheel? It worked for him....great! Why didn't you stand up to him. You're a Street Sense fan. He knocked him all week.

The point that you seem to be missing, is that nobody who likes Street Sense was enjoying the way Drugs was presenting his position, but the fact remains that no one person can lay out (in advance) how a race will be run and be any more right than he was.

I don't like Drugs all the time, but give credit where credit is due. Picking winners is picking winners, whether they are 2-5 or 80-1. Not only did he flat out say that he knew Street Sense would finish second, but he explained exactly how it was going to happen, with Street Sense relinquishing the lead late to one of two horses. One cannot be much more prophetic about how a race is going to unfold, and one cannot be more adamant that they are going to be right.

While you may not have taken a liking to the way Drugs presented this information in advance (and I didn't either, to boot, and also thought he was flat out wrong), there is little doubt that he saw this coming.

The prices of the horses doesn't matter, he laid out the race scenario and it unfolded exactly like he thought it would. What's so hard about swalling some pride and just saying "good call" instead of moaning about the exotics payouts? I'm less concerned with how much money he made in congratulating him than I am with how spot-on he was with his analysis.