Thank you God

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

There you go dodging, way to go!!!!! While you're figuring that out, figure out why you spend so much time trashing everything. Is life that bad? Is there nothing else going on, than to sit on this board and pick arguements with people?

Gee, Hoss ... all I did was congratulate Giacomo ... and comment that his race wasn't overly impressive.

How does that lead you to conclude that my life is bad?

Please don't be so downcast about me ... I have a wonderful life ... I couldn't possibly be happier ... in fact I'm happier than any human being really ought to be.

But thanks anyway for your concern.

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

I'm glad you're so happy, it really comes across in your posts. And please don't twist my words, I asked if life was bad because you seem so negative.

But that's where you're drawing an incorrect conclusion ...

... when someone who has observed thoroughbred racing for 48 years watches a race and concludes that the winner wasn't impressive ... he's not "being negative" ... he's just putting his accumulated knowledge to work and drawing an intelligent conclusion.

Do you expect every experienced analyst to conclude that every horse who wins a race won it impressively?

You really don't expect that ... do you?

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

What do you think? So your intelligent conclusion is that Giacomo wasn't impressive. Wow, I hope after my 48th year of observing racing that I'll be able to make such astounding conclusions. I just don't see the point of bashing everything. Read your posts, you bait people into arguements for no reason at all. Then when you get your wish you act like why are you argueing, I was just giving my opinion. Then you twist words, and NEVER let anything die. Is that fun?

All I'm hoping to do is help less experienced members of this forum to understand how to analyze thoroughbred races ... and how to organize their thoughts into cogent and well-written conclusions ... and how to justify those conclusions when they're challenged.

That's not such a bad thing ... is it?