<![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs - Deadspin Comments]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @calmasacucumber:

Speaking of a country club, later that night at Valhalla this was overheard:

Al Czervik: Hey, doll. Could you scare up another round for our table over here? And tell the cook this is low grade dog food. I've had better food at the ballgame, you know? This steak still has marks from where the jockey was hitting it.

How can this have not been posted yet....too soon?

valpo84

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @PeteJayhawk: I'm no PETA member, but I think the horse deserves some respect, considering that she gave her life to entertain us.

Kelvin Sampson's Rollover Minutes

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @Adonis: It's a fucking horse. Get over it.

PeteJayhawk

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @calmasacucumber: No. It's also because the synthetic surfaces (especially one called polytrack) often makes the results of races completely random and impossible to take seriously or handicap. It's a lazy, blanket "solution" to a nuanced problem, and, based on statistics, the difference in fatal breakdowns between synthetic and dirt is negligible.

Kelvin Sampson's Rollover Minutes

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> there is some synthetic turf substance available that some tracks use because it's much less dangerous to the horses...but because of "tradition" most of the prestigious tracks eschew it. so horses die trying to win rich, drug-addled men even more money and prestige in their exclusive little country club of horse racing.

calmasacucumber

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> A 2nd place finish in the Derby definitely qualifies her for Alpo status.

MartinTheMerciless

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> I'l say the same thing I said about Barbaro.

It's a horse. Get over it.

Since85

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @loctastic:

See, now that's too far.

Adonis

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> ankles go pop 5 seconds earlier, loctastic has $500 with a nice exacta. stupid horse racing.

loctastic

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @Brazil Thrill - Hawks Aficionado: I'd better start eating better just in case.

Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> New post up, De La Hoya fight is about to start on HBO.

@Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner: We may see the Knicks returning to relevance* once again within our lifetimes.

*Relevance = Non-losing seasons, never making it past the second round of the playoffs.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> Someone needed to feed that horse some fucking milk.

jwaves2007

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @Brazil Thrill - Hawks Aficionado: Just 23 more years.

Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @StevePerryPsychOut: Isn't Manny throwing out a runner one of the signs of the apocalypse?

Bed Bath and Jihad

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @ManuteBol: No way, the Knicks 19-year rebuilding plan is right on schedule.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @ManuteBol: I sincerely hope so.

Chad Sexington

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> Manute Ask: Any chance James Dolan can be euthanized?

ManuteBol

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @longefellowes: PHUCKING PHLYERS, I cannot believe they've made it this far.
/Bitter Devils Fan

The Leonard Leap

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> WAIT. Manny threw someone out at the plate? What the hell?

StevePerryPsychOut

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> Goal! Looks like there's one Philly that doesn't want to be put down today...

Sculptor?!?I_just_met_her!

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @StevePerryPsychOut: +1 Thank you for identifying "meat by-product"

Sculptor?!?I_just_met_her!

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @MrRedDevil: TMI

The Leonard Leap

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> nibbles

MrRedDevil

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @StevePerryPsychOut: subtle, very subtle

MrRedDevil

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> I would have stopped by sooner, but I had to feed my dog. The upside is that the price of his food dropped like a rock this evening...

StevePerryPsychOut

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> Is Buzz Bissinger already hard at work penning the tome?

FiddlingWhileJimRomeBurns

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @racistmascot_inc: to be fair, hoof hangnails are a bitch

SuperFrankieLampard

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> "I think if the horses knew what happens when they break a leg, there would be some mighty careful stepping coming down the home stretch."

"Eaaasy now, guys. You win, I'll place, he'll show. It's all the same oatbag."

/Seinfeld

blastitbiggs

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @MrRedDevil: Good point. He doesn't need a stepping stool for those.

@Chad Sexington: Butbloggingisharditsnoteasywearenottryingtobemean.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> 40 Yr old Virgin on USA...now.

MrRedDevil

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> There's no way the Magic win this series. 1 game, maybe 2...but that's it.

MrRedDevil

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> Buzz likes the ponies.

What up peeps?

MrRedDevil

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> I still remember when Nancy Lieberman had to be euthanized after trying out for the Pacers.

Innings Eater

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> We've reached the end of the 3rd quarter in this semi-finals matchup

I don't know who this play-by-play announcer is for TNT, but he kind of sucks.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @Brazil Thrill - Hawks Aficionado: I think you're full of shit.

/fails to sit in a seat like an adult.

Chad Sexington

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> on the plus side she was denied from buzz's greedy clutches.

SideAngleSide

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @racistmascot_inc: Chipper Jones is batting over .400 banged half of Atlanta *and* he trained the Debry runner-up?

Hank Scorpio-Steinbrenner

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @cowbell204:

If it were actually Chipper's horse, it would have been put down because of a hangnail.

racistmascot_inc

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @racistmascot_inc:

Big shock it ended up lame

cowbell204

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @Adonis: Heh. You said "taint".

She Blinded Me With Violence

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> Detroit is certainly not sleepwalking through this game... 64-49 with 4 to go on the 3rd.

Is Orlando intentionally keeping the ball away from Dwight Howard's hands? I would think that's the one matchup they'd want to exploit.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @Secret Identity:

Chipper Jones is batting over .400 *and* he trained the Debry runner-up? Geez Chip, you're allowed to take a break every once in a while.

racistmascot_inc

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> What do I know. My horse finished 19th.

NYSportscene

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @longefellowes: In today's equine society, what Bissinger did to Eight Belles does not take away her virgin status.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> My grandparents were once part owners of a filly who had to be put down; she was named Happy Hannah.

I can only hope that Eight Belles will be equally delicious.

racistmascot_inc

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> trainer Larry Jones said, "There was no way to think about even trying to save her. She ran the race of her life."

It's the death every horse dreams of...

Secret Identity

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @DucksOnPondScum: Wait - you forgot me

/Gene Mauch

DucksOnPondScum

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @TattooedMess(iah):
And Elvis...

metalmaniac

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @UkraineNotWeak: Upon realizing this, Buzz is really upset.

Sculptor?!?I_just_met_her!

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> So has anyone found the Eight Belles tribute message board? I haven't had my daily dose of lunacy yet today.

She Blinded Me With Violence

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> Just for the record, I must point out with heavy heart that Eight Belles is in fact the -second- Philly to collapse at the end.

/Mitch Williams

DucksOnPondScum

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @UkraineNotWeak:

Untainted for Barbaro, just the way God intended. He will guide her towards spiritual love-making...

Adonis

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @the-Bored: If so, she went way the hell overboard.

Chad Sexington

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> Pity. She died a virgin.

UkraineNotWeak

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> Do you think, before races, that they tell horses "break a leg" for good luck?

the-Bored

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> Here come the horse jokes again - the dam has broken.

Avoid the Clap, Jimmy Dugan

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> A run for roses,
but gloom and despair,
loom overhead
in the kentucky air

barbaro is gone
our prayers for him unanswered
eight bells ring
but the result leaves us scared

Eight Belles we hardly knew
Eight Belles that hardly grew
Eight Belles with a tear in their eye
Eight Belles join Barbaro in the sky.

Affirmed.

Yellow Tail Swine

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> First one to 80 in the Pistons/Magic game, wins.

UkraineNotWeak

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> My old No Fear t-shirt was right, Second Place is the First Loser.

Deadspin

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> Turkoglu just went coast-to-coast on the Pistons.

@She Blinded Me With Violence: +1, Chris Farley's speech is the first thing that came to mind as I listened to SVG.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> All that Van Gundy halftime speech was missing was "LIVING IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!!!"

She Blinded Me With Violence

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> Wow. Who put the go-juice in the Flyers' water?

Sculptor?!?I_just_met_her!

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> She died doing the very thing she loved most... chasing after boys.

Adonis

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @the-Bored: Don't worry, Jay Leno made a very similar joke last night.

So, to recap: Jay Leno > Deadspin commenters.

Baudolino

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> I just realized I don't have any glue.

How do you spell retard?

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> What has two legs and Eight Belles?

Place.

What Would Kornheiser Do? Presented by Peniston Fuels

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @TattooedMess(iah): Damn, how unoriginal am I? Shows what I get for not reading comments on earlier posts.

the-Bored

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> Affirmed.

/had to be said

being_sven

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @She Blinded Me With Violence: I wouldn't mind making a joke, but I'm having a hard time gluing the pieces together.

Brazil Thrill

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @the-Bored: Aaaand the joke gets made yet again.

TattooedMess(iah)

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @JaysonAych: Don't forget Pat Tillman.

Kelvin Scumpson

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> @JaysonAych: If you're really trying to sell these to the type of rednecks who would buy something like that you're gonna need to include Jesus in there.

TattooedMess(iah)

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> Hmmm, the lone female loses to "Big Brown"? There go Hillary's chances.

the-Bored

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> Tacky knick-knack makers are working frantically to make a poster of Barbaro and Eight Belles playing together in Heaven while Dale Earnhardt and a bald eagle look on against an American flag backdrop.

JaysonAych

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> I'd make a joke but I don't wanna beat a dead horse.

She Blinded Me With Violence

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]> Who knew the internet was located in Georgetown?

twoeightnine

]]> <![CDATA[Death Looms Over Churhill Downs]]>

Little known fact: Hillary Clinton also bet on Maggie Fitzgerald.
[en.wikipedia.org]

(this is a double post).

Kelvin Scumpson

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