Put Your Fingers Where your Mouth Is

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

You don't understand what I am trying to say. What I was trying to say to you was that if you were forced to bet REAL money, a sum that hurts you to lose, on some of these opinions that you would learn to think differently. It is a subtle but important difference.

I'll give you a reasonable example. When I used to play the horses I bet a lot of trainer angles and was constantly taking off the wall shots. Yeah, I occasionally these hit and felt really smart, but when I started playing full time I very quickly realized these horses were losers for two specific reasons. One was very simply that they did not pay off over time but the other was far more important, playing these horses often made me overlook logical winners and I was missing out on opportunities to really make money.

The point is I only really learned this because I was making a serious attempt to make money at the track and, in fact, my livelihood depended on that. Kibbitzing wacky ideas is one thing, but pretending they make sense in a very real sense is quite another, and that is the distinction I was trying to make. Yeah, it might be " cool " if trainers took off-the-wall shots with these BC horses, and it might make some of the races more " fun " for some us, but it makes absolutely no real world sense.

The thing is that when u make all of your comments to me about how illogical and insane I am, u don't know how much I wager or how successful I am at it. Just because I might say that if I were an owner, I would run in a spot that u might not agree with or that I think an owner should do a certain thing, that doesn't have anything to do with how I bet the actual field that ends up in the gate.

When u say things like u have to me, u are very condescending in your attitude. I've been playing this game for 20 years now. That may not be as long as u have and it's probably 99% likely that u have invested more economically into the game than I have. But that doesn't mean that I'm some rookie either. When u say that I need to "learn to think differently".....who are u to tell me that? How do u know who I've talked to and learned from in the sport that have helped me come to some of the beliefs that I have? U don't. There is a way to disagree with people, even to maybe help them see things in a different way, without attempting to belittle them.

In any event, when I said that I think Invasor and Sun King are both in way over their head, I stand by it. U told me that I was being illogical (again) so let's see who's willing to back up what they believe. I'm assuming that u will be playing the races at the windows and so will I. But I'm going on record here saying that neither of those two horses break the top four in the Classic and if either of them does, I'll stay off of here for a week. And yes, that will hurt me because I do like to spout off my opinions and thoughts on here.