First Post: Sunday, February 5, 2017

Bombast and repetition, repetition and bombast. The admen will be reaching for your wallet via a little misdirection through your heartstrings and funnybone. Let’s fetishize everything today. U-S-A! U-S-A!

’murrikan Gridiron Throwball players as cyborgs — no wonder The League has a disconnect when it comes to injury. Ex-jocks as Mission Control Commanders — so this is why we wait breathlessly on their every word. Watch TV all day and there’ll be more meaningful action from the hucksters and spinners than from the athletes themselves. EVERYTHING IS…GIANT. Hoo-boy.

And then the spectacle is over and the adrenalin is ebbing and here is where the opiates and SOcial MEdia take over. No one can afford for you to be quiet, to be a little alone and reflective. THEY NEED you to be hooked on a constant stream, man. You monetize them, but only if you buy into it.

Singapore, Malaysia true rivals for 21st Century Dominance: no needless distractions in either of those places, no drooling fascination with pretty girls or beefroid-injected boys. Rather, they are turning out only smart kids who are not fetishizing every last thing. As well, it might have been that the 20th Century as the ’murrikan Century was not a matter of exceptionalism but mere happenstance: Europe was bombed out twice, Asia was hiding and this country was the only place for the SMART IMMIGRANTS to come to. Just wondering…

N.B. There are people out there who KNOW that Sandy Hook was a hoax, and that the Holocaust was fake, too. Why?

Free ones: Rundown…

Aqueduct 4, 7
Gulfstream Park Proper 6, 9, 10, 11
Santa Anita 1, 4, 7, 8

Pay-side (Weekday/Weekend):

Golden Gate 8
Laurel 5, 8
Oaklawn 1, 3, 4, 5
Tampa 3, 5, 7, 8, 9

Today’s Stakes Pageantry: Looks OK for #3 Isabelle Huppert in Aqueduct 8.

Yesterday’s Activity:

Track (Win Mutuels $20+/Gettable)

Aqueduct (0/0) — Host Islanders edged by Carolina, 5-4, in OT; Josh Bailey had a goal and an assist for The Island.

Chas. Town (0/0) — Wildflower collection returns to Shepherd U. after 64 yrs.

Delta (1/0) — Oberlin police chief facing ethics charge.

Fair Grounds (0/0) — Visiting Pelicans lose at Wash., D.C., 105-91; Anthony Davis led all scorers with 25 pts. for New Orleans.

Golden Gate (4/1½) — Race 2 was contentious, and players of all stripes gave a quick OK to Swift Approval, Fair Odds of 3½-1 and a field-best 91 on the LifeLiner Spread Column analysis; she went gate-to-wire to win by 1¼ at $24.40. In Race 7, only Old-School Champeens had an airing of Dumont, Fair Odds of 2½-1 atop the conventional V6 Betting Line; she won by a clean neck at $30.40. Good work.

Gulf (2/0) — Host Heat cauterize Philalala, 125-102; Hassan Whiteside led all scorers with 30 pts. for Miami.

Sam Houston (1/0) — Anti-Trump Sr. protests capitalize on Super Bowl crowds in Discovery Green.

Laurel (0/0) — Visiting Capitals edge Montreal, 3-2; Nicklas Backstrom’s 15th goal of the season was the gamewinner.

Mahoning (1/0) — Cries of boy, 5, lead authorities to double-overdose in Enon.

Oaklawn (2/1) — Race 4 was contentious, and players of all stripes did not laugh at first-timer Comic Summer, Fair Odds of 4½-1 and with a connection-line/slashline readout of 11pc/19pc/33pc; she raced mane-to-wire to win by 1¼ at $43.40. Good work.

PennNat (2/0) — Host Flyers blanked by La-La Land, 1-nil, in OT; Michal Neuvirth stopped 27 of 28 shots he faced.

Keystone (0/0) — See PennNat commentary.

Santa Anita (0/0) — See PennNat commentary.

Sunland (2/0) — Residents rally at Las Cruces Islamic Center.

Tampa (3/1) — Race 10 was not contentious, but High-Octane Chancers and Progressive-Minded Eggheads channeled their inner Ed McMahon and voiced their support for Here’s Johnny, 85 on the LifeLiner Spread Column analysis; he raced ribcage-to-wire to win by a clean neck at $29.60. Good work.

Turfway (1/0) — NKY frets about stability of its hillsides.

Turf Paradise (0/0) — Visiting Coyotes edge San Jose, 3-2, in shootout; Shane Doan and Ryan White were Arizona’s regulation-time goalscorers.

WMF Report:

Rally
Gulf 7½f (T)
Oaklawn 1 1/16m
Tampa 1 1/16m (T)

Nocturnal Submission: You’re kidding, right? Because 24: Legacy is everything tonight…EVERYTHING.

Thank you. Best wishes. Goodbye. Jay Glazer, what’s his shtick? Why is he even on TV, like Hank Goldberg?