To whom it may concern- focus of this board

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Posted By: leon

This chatboard is focused on pre-wwII baseball cards. Please keep all posting on topic per the forum rules. I don't want to know about all other sports. If it concerns the focus of the board please post it. If you are a regular participant you may post some off topic according to the rules. Thanks for your time....moderator dude....

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Posted By: anonymoushandicapperdude

...who do ya'll like in the Kentucky Derby Saturday?



looks like it could be a real classic.

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Posted By: leon

But I will be at the local racetrack having our annual Kentucky Derby party and eating a buffet....looking at the outrageous hats the ladies will be wearing.....now shut up Dave

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Posted By: Anonymous

Sinister Minister wire to wire with whoever Dominguez is riding completing the exacta.

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Posted By: Paul Moss

Sweetnorthernsaint will be the winner

You read it here first

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

LOve the first card I ever posted (with Runscott's directions):

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Posted By: Bottom of the Ninth

Point Determined

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

Aristedes by a neck.......
I'll be there.....maybe

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Posted By: leonl

This original post had to do with someone posting all kinds of crap and calling us a "blog". I think that post lasted about a minute....we gonna be more pure than that. Now back to the race....actually I have been told to bet on the horse that either pees or goes number 2.....But maybe that strategy is overrated...

edited to change the word "overrated" from one word (correct) to two words (incorrect) and back to one word (correct)....

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Posted By: Cat

The only thing I know abut horse racing is "never bet on the white one".... oh wait a minute that's boxing.

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Posted By: Sean

Leon, peeing is bad, the trick is to feed him/her some water and keep him from peeing before the race. The ponies know they have to run like hell to go...that’s where the saying "I have to pi$$ like a Russian race horse" comes from, but they used clothes pins to stop it over there.

er...anyway it’s gonna be - Storm Treasure


The more you know.
Sean BH

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Posted By: Bill Stone

Barbaro at 4-1 with Edgar Prado up ,coming out of the No. 8 post, ---best bet of the day !

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Posted By: anonymoushandicapperdude

I am leaning towards Barbaro as well.
....but not at 4-1...even with Prado up.

won't be surprised to see Brother Derek win going away down the stretch....even if he is a Cali bred.

...still time to study

where's T-Bob and his crystal ball??.. Lawyer Ron ??

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Posted By: Bob

You betcha! Laying off the pace until the 1/8 pole and flying to the finish. Lawyer Ron, the pride of Arkansas and continuing in the tradition of Smarty Jones and all the others who ran in the Natural State

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Posted By: Jerry

BOB and JOHN, by a Nose

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Posted By: Bob

http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2006/derby_coverage/derby_entrants/lawyer_ron/#top

Here's your winner. In 2004 it was Smarty Jones in the Derby and Preakness and 2nd in the Belmont. In 2005 it was Afleet Alex 3rd in the Derby and winner of the Preakness and Belmont. This year's super horse from the Natural State is Arkansas Derby winner Lawyer Ron. The gutty chesnut can run on the lead, off the pace or come from behind with great closing speed.
Elecutionist, Lil E Tee, Tank's Prospect, Pine Bluff, Smarty Jones, Afleet Alex and now Lawyer Ron.

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

be able to take it out of the gate.........this is shaping up to be a FAST early Derby. 3-4 early speed horses in the race. Can he go the distance with an early lead though? It'll be interesting.

Pretty fun week here in Louisville if you've never been before. It's definitely worth the price of admission. Unfortunately, we won't be regaled by Pamela Anderson this year as the Derby signed on with a sponsor--YUM brands, HQ'ed in Louisville. She's still protesting the whole KY Fried Chicken thing on behalf of PETA.....(People Eating Tasty Animals)

Muhammad Ali is the grand marshall of the Pegasus Parade today....hometown boy also signing autographs today and tomorrow from 11am till 1pm at the newly opened $60M Muhammad Ali Center across the street from the Louisville Slugger Museum.

Couple Saturdays ago was Thunder over Louisville--largest fireworks show in North America for 2006 supposedly and air show with Blue Angels.

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

Blue Angel?

Falling in love again
never wonder who
what am I to do
I can't help it..

Oh yeah, those noisy airplanes..not Marlene Dietrich. Audiences at Dietrich's movies have a strange reaction to her: they all become the opposite sex.

The airplanes don't affect me that way at ALL. This is the ONLY horse I have a picture of, and it ain't going anywhere...

And yes, I'm going to watch the Derby...

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Posted By: Howard W. Rosenberg

Cap's 1900 book was written by a Chicago horse racing writer and poet named Richard Cary Jr.

Cary had the pen name of Hyder Ali. Right after the book was published, Cary told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "I really thought when I started that the 'Cap' [sic] would be able to reel off the story of his life about as fast as a nimble man would care to write it. It took me just two days to find that was not the case. A day and a half to get the 'Cap' to sit down and the other half day in egging him on. The story had to be literally dragged out of him. The incidents of his baseball career were apparently fresh in his mind, but when it came to actual dates he was all at sea. When he did give a date nine times out of ten it was wrong and had to be corrected later on." By the way, the New York Times said whether Anson "wrote every word in this volume of reminiscences or not[,] the book reads characteristically. The expression is Ansonian."

For those who may have been inspired by the thread, the foremost horse racing library in Kentucky is in Lexington, at Keeneland. According to the following link, http://www.keeneland.com/faq/, the library is open from 8:30 a.m until 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, except during live racing when the hours change to 8:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. Cary has a file there, of course.

Cary's two other books are Tales of the Turf; and, 'Rank Outsiders' (1891); and Sporting Ballads, and Other Verse (1903). The library has at least one of them; both are mainly about horse racing.

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Posted By: Anonymous

Tom....sounds like a blast, i was gonna head down this year, but too much work has me pinned down.
and remember that many times what looks like a speed duel to the death on paper does not turn out to be such....but watching the race card today, it looks like a speed favoring bias is developing...so it may look like one of Leon's Texas qaurter-horse races down the backstretch.

......maybe Yomass is on to something after all

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Posted By: Bob

Tom- What's the weather like there for Saturday? Hopefully not mud. If it's sloppy I don't have a clue, maybe Steppenwolfer, also from Arkansas, if he drew in.
Bob

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Posted By: Rob NYC

Point Determined

Tri/Super Box:
Point Determined, Sweetnorthernsaint, A.P. Warrior, Brother Derek

Maybe I don't belong here since prewar baseball is the main theme and not other prewar, like so:

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Posted By: anthony aka pete

is that a scene from "brokeback mountain"???? i refuse to watch it, but i heard the women liked it....

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Posted By: Bob

If it's a crappy track tomorrow, box Steppenwolfer for a huge payout.
Otherwise it's Lawyer Ron and Barbaro in that order.

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Posted By: Ryan Christoff

Hit a little too close to home, Pete?

-Ryan

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

"The target audience for this movie is" --I don't know who said this; James Schamus, maybe?--"gay men and straight women." A lot of STRAIGHT men like it, too...

It happens to be a great movie, and won..76 awards. That's leaving out GLAAD!

One sympathetic board member, who shall remain nameless, said to me: nobody has yet explained why grown men collect pictures, engraved, photographed, painted and printed, of handsome ballplayers on little rectangles of cardboard..."

Modified to say what it should have said to begin with...

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

DERBY?

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Posted By: anthony

sorry if i offended you

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Posted By: leon

No more Brokeback Mountain pictures. This board takes a neutral stance on gays. Live and let live but I don't want to see it...No more please..

edited to be kinder and gentler....gays and heterosexuals are fine...just don't want to talk about it on the board...

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Posted By: jay behrens

owww, Leon used a bad work. The Berkeley PC police are gonna come get ya.

Jay

I like to sit outside, drink beer and yell at people. If I did this at home, I would be arrested. So, I go to baseball games and fit right in.

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Posted By: Bob

Mr. Politically Incorrect Moderator
Thanks for the bans on those pictures, you have to wonder what goes on in the minds of anyone posting these on a baseball card website, but to each his own I guess.

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Posted By: JimB

Are there any other groups of people we are hoping to offend and keep away from this list? Why don't we get it all out right now?
JimB

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Posted By: Rick

midgets too

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Posted By: steve f

I saw the movie and consider it a masterpiece, very realistic. It's amazing more frustrated gay folks don't blow their brains out due to society's ignorance. Imagine trying to convince an entire population of rocks that this is an uncontrollable trait. FTR, I'm not homosexual nor did this movie cause me to want to change into one -I'm not strong enough to be gay!.. I apologize for drifting way off topic.

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Posted By: Bob

Personally I could care less who is what and who is not what, gays don't threaten or bother me in the least but I'd like to see pictures of caramel cards here and not men groping each other.

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Posted By: Steve Dawson

I seem to remember there being a one-armed, black dyslexic gay midget who's a board member here!!!!






NTTAWWT

Steve

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Posted By: Brian C. Daniels

Schwartzy calls me "softy" and I only have 11% body fat!
We live in a country where 70% of all dogs are overweight!
Should I be offended?



Jim! My wife just brought home some groceries and I noticed a box of popcorn.
On the side in large print it stated " No TRANS fats" Should I be offended? I mean,I do live close to San Francisco and all.

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Posted By: Anonymous

are those cowboys from the natural state too?

....Lawyer Ron sure is NOT...He's from Owensboro Kentucky

but at 10-1 now...heck I might even bet him even though he's
only 7 for 14 lifetime and kinda light on the speed figs.
and jockey experience.

speed looks to being wearing down and everything on or near the rail has been dead in the stretch today.

only thing for sure is that there will be no short prices.
Good Luck!

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Posted By: Bottom of the Ninth

Go ahead and post the image I sent you last night of the Arkansas Razorback's.

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Posted By: jay behrens

as long we don't offend the left handed albino midget rastafarian eskimo ninja group, we should be safe.

Jay

I like to sit outside, drink beer and yell at people. If I did this at home, I would be arrested. So, I go to baseball games and fit right in.

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Posted By: Anonymous

Barbaro over bluegrass cat....wahooo!

domingueuz at 28-1...what an exacta play..$587...what a country.

drinks are on me.

edited to add:
I just wish i was brave enought to play trifectas and wise enough to take Tbob's advice on using stepenwolfer on the back end...doh!

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

Guess it's allright for people to defend "Brokeback Mountain," it's just not all right for Julie to post an occasional picture...I also posted pictures of 4 of the greatest ballplayeres that ever lived..

Barbaro it is...

If you can't stand it, you gotta fix it... even if the moderator dude is from Texas.

yeah, I must be out of my mind...fortunately, Steve F isn't.

It IS a magnificent movie. Like it or not.

Leon: the word "Fag" and "queer" are generaslly offensive to gay men 45 or olderr; men younger tend to self-identify with them. It's not excatly as neutral word.

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Posted By: Bob

If it's a crappy track tomorrow, box Steppenwolfer for a huge payout.
Otherwise it's Lawyer Ron and Barbaro in that order.>

Well, Barbaro looked great and Steppenwolfer who Laywer Ron beat in the Rebel and Arkansas Derby ran late as usual and got there for the show. Lawyer Ron had a tough trip from out in the 17th position but his jock got him in contending position but he was impeded and boxed in and finsihed a dismal 12th. Oh well, I broke even and I still think he will be tough in the Preakness where there won't be the cavalry charge.
Murcer- we always adopt as "our own" horses that spend the entire winter and spring in Hot Springs so to us, Ron is our guy. And nope, no gay cowboys in Arkansas they all live in Texas

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Posted By: Anonymous

i certainly would not have pedicted a 7 length victory from
any horse running in that tough field...

...didn't really watch your horses trip, seemed like about as clean a 20 horse race as i've ever seen. I was watching Bluegrass Cat and Dominguez with my fingers and toes crossed.

glad your show bets on stepenwolfer got you even.

have a julip on me

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

What a kick! I love that...(am I still here?). It's even more exciting than a footrace,.

I'm the only one who posted photos of any baseball cards in this whole column.


Leon: So is the world 6000 years old, and the devil planted the dinasaur bones just to fool us? Nobody could "teach it to your kid," You..Good Old Boy...

Nobody is groping anybody in either of those pictures, or in any other picture I posted.

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Posted By: Bill Stone

Gosh --I had to look way back (before the nonsense) to see who said " Barbaro at 4-1 with Edgar Prado up, coming out of the No. 8 post, best bet of the day" hum --good call --nice to cash a ticket !!

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

It's so much less important than who won the Kentucky Derby...great race, by the way...

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Posted By: Anonymous

and naturally you took the flyers on bluegrass cat and steppenwolfer and put a tidy trifecta in the bank ???




good call...you win

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Posted By: leon

No...that's about it.....It was only an "uneducated type" response that was meant as a little humor. Sorry if you didn't take it that way. Down here in da' south we ain't that smart, ya' know?

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Posted By: jay behrens

I'm surprised no busted out the old, There's only 2 things in Texas, steers and queers and I don't see no horns on Leon's head. (not meant to be taken seriously)

Jay

I like to sit outside, drink beer and yell at people. If I did this at home, I would be arrested. So, I go to baseball games and fit right in.