All right, all right, ya’ ex-colonists! Take it easy! Your friendly fellow-humans from The Philippines are pretty much twice-over subjects: originally by Spain, then by the U.S. So that’s why we have a little more Western savvy (especially as regards Christianity & the English tongue) than other Far Easterners. Yet all that overlordship did not translate to an overstimulation of the gene pool, and your typical Pilipino fellow-human is going to be stuck on the short side of things.
Indeed, our beneficent American controllers coined a seemingly innocuous acronym for us Filipinos: FLIP. Nope, it wasn’t in the sense of ‘glib’ or devil-may-care. Rather, it stood for ‘F—in’ Little Island People’! America! U-S-A! U-S-A!
So, yes, we are little, still diminutive in a world growing more largely populated by giants, and this is precisely the type of athletic endeavor — gymnastics — you might give us half-a-hope in. Not basketball or volleyball or discus or long-jump, but, yup, gymnastics. And maybe boxing, since you have weight-classes in that sport that allow for the average Pilipino pugilist to be able to survive the bout without giving away a 50- or 60- (or even 100-pound!) weight advantage to the bigger guy. Maybe tennis, though that seems more and more unlikely with each passing day.
So, yeah, when the athletes actually have an advantage by being lower-to-the-ground, less-heavy, then those Pilipinos have a nonzero probability of success. And so it was for Mistah Carlos Yulo here. Yea, verily, it took more than 100 years for the Pilipinas to leverage that bite-sized edge to a gold medal, but now we can say that our FLIP brohams are off the gold-medal schneid.
Good job, Mistah Carlos Yulo. Salute to yourself and your small-statured nation. Sige!
Gratuitous Horse Racing Tweet of Your Day:
Um, yo, SpireSpire, it’s ‘Waves’. ‘Waves of Mischief’. Thank you.
BestLine Racing Society Recap:
One post-press-time connection to report from last night’s (Saturday’s) late action: At Opelousas, La., the finale, which numerically was Race 10 on this card, saw #8 Styling Hook (.318 Win Prob / 2.14-1 Fair Odds / 2.77-1 Premium Odds) reel-in the win at $14.40.
As for today (Sunday), some of the races went like this…
In Race 2 from Shakopee, Minn., #7 Ann Alee (.237 / 3.22 / 4.06) was gone without the wind (or else won it for that cheekily subversive peach emoji!) at $10.60.
#12 Somethinabouther (.470 / 1.13 / 1.55) scored the sorry-not-sorry victory in a lousy-with-first-timers Race 3 at Henderson, Ky., at $6.52. In Race 9, #3 Waves of Mischief (.168 / 4.95 / 6.14) sank his competitors at $16.68.
At Auburn, Wash., #3 Decimate (.273 / 2.66 / 3.40) was at least one-tenth better than his Race 2 foes at $9.28. Next race there, #1 Owhatarush (.201 / 3.98 / 5.97) hurried sufficiently to win at $20.94; your winning $118.94 daily double had a premium price of $61.33.
To Hallandale Beach, Fla., for Race 4, in which #4 Shez Speightful (.208 / 3.81 / 5.73) and #1 Marthamaywhovier (.233 / 3.29 / 5.01) combined on your winning $76.80 exacta whose premium price was $68.87.
The Laurel, Md., Race 9 finale found #7 El Mayo (.481 / 1.08 / 1.49) being extra-spicy at $8.20; completing your winning $36.60 exacta was #5 Fear Nothing (.324 / 2.09 / 2.70), with the premium price on that comboa (comboa!) being $11.02.
Swampatoga Spgs., N.Y., was not impaired in any way today by inclement weather, and that included Race 8, which was won by the aptly named #4 Clear the Air (.160 / 5.25 / 7.75) at $25.60; completing your winning $97-even exacta was #6 Billal (.317 / 2.15 / 2.79), with the premium price on that comboa (comboa!) being $58.74.
#2 Liberty Wolf (.339 / 1.95 / 2.54) was the solo lobo in the winner’s circle for your opener on the Santa Rosa/Williams-Sonoma programme at $17.60. In Race 4, #2 Pineapple Cruise (.469 / 1.13 / 1.56) won it for Del Monte-Dole duopoly at $5.40.
Last stop was Etobicoke Int’l., where Race 8 saw #1 J P Hellish (.274 / 2.65 / 3.38) getting the W at $9.10.
BestLine Racing Society Nightcap:
Some from Prairie, since Mountain sucker-punched us with an earlier post this time!
Strongshots
Longshots
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