We were taught a footballing lesson by City tonight. Not much more to it than that.
— Patrick Timmons (@PatrickTimmons1) April 26, 2023
And so the 2022-23 English Premiership title chase ended this evening with defending champeens Manchester City routing your visiting No. London Arse, 4-1.
Our teams, the Arse, the La-La Land Los Kings, began the week with much promise. A win tonight against Manchester City could have given the Arse the whip hand in the run-in to the title race; now it’s pretty much just playing out the string of the last five contests. Then the Kings went ahead 3-nil inside the first 20 mins. of Sunday’s game against visiting, villainous Edmonton; if they could hold on, the Los Angelenos would have a 3-1 series stranglehold over the Albertans. Instead, the Oilers fought all the way back to prevail in the overtime, 4-3. Then last night, another Kings loss last night put our ice-hockey heroes on the verge of elimination; no more margin for error. It could be over on Saturday.
So it is for us sports fans. None of this toxic sci-fi/cosplay fandom about who gets cast in what role, who directs whom in the sequel, whether a character is canon or not — all of these are merely one-off spectacles not played out for public consumption, and it’s much frothing and ado about nothing. Nope. For the politics/sportsball fans, their emotions are based on the up-and-down reality of results on the scoreboard, the concrete, not some ginned-up outrage over ridiculous matters. If you are going to have overreactions over something, at least overreactions in the sports/politics realm are tangible and reviewable, meaningful to real-world citizens, whereas overreactions in sci-fi/cosplay are just niche grievances for the droolers, lispers & other assorted sunlight-challenged mopes. Harsh, but probably fair! Maybe…
BestLine Racing Society Recap:
Keystone / Phila. Park / ParXXX & Tampa from before.
In the fifth at the latter, #7 English Bob (.258 Win Prob / 2.88-1 Fair Odds / 3.65-1 Premium Odds) spun into the winner’s circle at $11-even. Next race there, #1 Wow Wish (.183 / 4.46 / 6.65) and #6 Playground Legend (.313 / 2.19 / 2.83) combined for your winning $59.20 exacta whose premium price was $50.93. Finally, in the closer, #10 Sign and Seal (.149 / 5.71 / 8.40) delivered the upset at $29-even.
BestLine Racing Society Nightcap:
Evangeline tonight.
Strongshots
Race 7
#2 Dixie Farmer (.326 / 2.07 / 2.68)
Race 8
#4 Dreamed I Am Fast (.406 / 1.46 / 1.96)
Longshots
Race 3
#6 Forged in Steel (.223 / 3.48 / 4.38)
#3 Bello Creedo (.216 / 3.63 / 4.56)
#2 Wildcard Gold (.208 / 3.81 / 4.77)
#8 Talk to Tokey (.128 / 6.81 / 9.94)
Race 6
#1 Baquero’s Bind (.237 / 3.22 / 4.06)
#5 Itellyouthefacts (.118 / 7.47 / 10.86)
#8 Hope for Change (.112 / 7.93 / 11.50)
#2 General Eisenhower (.111 / 8.01 / 11.61)
#10 Ted Striker (.106 / 8.43 / 12.21)
Nevertheless, Come On You Gunners! #COYG
