First Post: Sunday, June 8, 2014

Inside, like a rave with unending commercial spots

Wow. The weekend is over. Hoopball is no good to watch, entitled crybabies, just like the owner of a certain top three-year-old. Time to exhale. Scattered thoughts swimming around the spinning vortex of memory and observation.

Sharapova. Two times a winner now in Paris. Cali. Chrome a valiant effort; his owner, not really. Why do these owners have to steal the spotlight and just take a big dump on the horsey himself? Why? This should be about the horsey, not the sore-loser owner. You can tell this guy’s status in life. After all, you think the Rokebys and the Calumets and the Phippses and the Mellons of the world resorted to this sort of nonsense? Frances A. Genter forever! Kings again, the Zenyatta of major-league ice-hockey, both Southern Californians. Continued exquisite torture on the rink. NYRangers fans try too hard, ironical, New York-clever, trying too hard, forcing themselves to be hip and clever and ironical in the arena. They are enthusiastic, but why do they have to try so hard and strain and struggle to be hip and ironical and clever? Is that a New York way of life? We were born in Gotham during a cooler time, the late 1960s, but is this typical of New York sports fans, the need to struggle and strain and try oh-so-hard to be clever? Rafa & the Djoker, true sportsmen, gracious and effortless in their effort. No need for these all-time greats to have to be above their sport. The Cali. Chrome owner and the NYRangers fans in the arena could certainly learn a few good things from both the Djoker and the Rafa. The commentators liken these elite male tennis players to heavyweight boxers, but deep-sea sportfishing is more like it, with the guy on the other end of the line, the competitor on the other side of the net, able to tug and fight and pull back and maybe even drag the angler into the ocean.

Winners: Sharapova, Halep, Tonalist, Cali. Chrome, LAKingsz, NYRangers, Rafa, Djoker
Losers: Owner of Cali. Chrome, NYRangers fans in the arena
Draw: Horseracing (renewed interest via Cali., but can NBCSN sustain it?)

In the end, this is why sports fans will always have a richer life than TV/sci-fi fansz. There is more ennoblement through watching a sport and competition than there is from staring at predetermined moves on a screen or a box. TV/sci-fi fansz can have their Star Trek & Game of Thornsz and all of it. Sports fans will have the French Open and Triple Crown and Stanley Cup Finals. Year after year. Every year.

See ya for Game 3. See ya for Wimbledon! For now, it’s time to exhale.

Free ones: Rundown…

Belmont (Belmont is BACK!) 2, 6, 8
Calder / Gulf Calder 2, 6, 8, Gulf 1, 5, 6, 7

Pay-side: Today…

Arlington 2, 6, 8
BelTerra 4
Churchill 2, 4
Golden Gate 8
Louisiana 4, 7
Lone Star 1, 8
Monmouth 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12
Woodbine 1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 10

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Bel 8 on the free page. Mth 9 & 11 on the pay-side.

Golden Gate 3 is open, and #5 Global Rule has a chance.

Sidestepping the top three morning-line choices in the seventh there: #3 G. G. Ryder, #4 Alert Bay.

Sorry, longshot-loversz, but it looks like a dead-on cold-puncher’s box of the obvious two in WO 8: #2 Ultimate Destiny, #1 Pender Harbour. Like a tennis tournament with a Nadal-Djoker final.

Longshot chances elsewhere in the Great White North, though, with Exhibition Park 6 featuring the live longshots #4 Miss Derek, #5 Terlani.

To end the weekend, Presque 5 has a Triple Threat Horsey in #8 Purely Hot. Hope she does better than the owner of yesterday’s Triple Crown Threat.

WMF Report:

Early
Arlington 6f
Belmont 6f
BelTerra 6f
Calder 6f
Emerald 6f, 6½f
Gulf 6f
Hastings 6½f
Louisiana 6f
Monmouth 6f
Keystone 6f
SunRay 4½f, 6½f

Yesterday’s Activity: No recap. Nothing left to give. Regretsz!

Nocturnal Submission: Night off. Nothing left to give. Sorry!

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Drained. Will wake up again in time for Game 3, 29 hours from now.