[This Just In]

You can’t compare a ball game to a horse race. A horse race is a race. A ball game is a sport in which teams are playing at bats and on the field through 9 or more innings. You have 9 players on the field. The object of the game is to out-pitch, out-bat, outperform and outscore the opposing team. In horse racing, you have a jockey and a racehorse. Whoever crosses the finish line first in each race wins.

Apples and oranges, my friend.

[Aria]

Logically I’m probably off course....but I can see what he is saying.

Honestly, I’m glad all the horses and jockeys are ok and now CC can retire to a life of stud fees and green pasture. It’s still a good story - now tarnished by the sore loser comments.

[Dr. Sivana]

You can’t compare a ball game to a horse race. A horse race is a race. A ball game is a sport in which teams are playing at bats and on the field through 9 or more innings. You have 9 players on the field. The object of the game is to out-pitch, out-bat, outperform and outscore the opposing team.

Most sports have variations on this. For instance, in baseball, a team that has to play a seven game playoff against a weak opponent will not be able to start the World Series with its ace pitcher against the team that drew a weak opponent beaten in four games.

The top two division winners per conference in the NFL get a bye week, even if the next game is against a wild card team with a better record.

Basketball and hockey both have long playoff seasons where teams playing seven games have to play teams that have been waiting after a 4-0 run against a weak opponent.

Oh, and should Man O'War been disqualified from the Belmont Stakes? He skipped the Derby itself.

[trebb]

You can’t compare a ball game to a horse race. A horse race is a race. A ball game is a sport in which teams are playing at bats and on the field through 9 or more innings. You have 9 players on the field. The object of the game is to out-pitch, out-bat, outperform and outscore the opposing team. In horse racing, you have a jockey and a racehorse. Whoever crosses the finish line first in each race wins. Apples and oranges, my friend.

Both sides are acceptable - if the horse was truly spectacular, it might well have won. On the flip side, nobody can tell if the previous race might have taken some small bit out of it and it may have won this race if it hadn't competed in the last race. Apples and oranges are sometimes related.

[vharlow]

I felt California Chrome was whipped by his inside post position, and the jockeys. They do this. They blocked him when he wanted to run. They are always a factor, and they want a cut of that purse for themselves. Today, I saw a picture of a bad cut on Chrome’s foot, so he may very well have also been hurting. Looked like he got slightly bumped coming out of the gate, and that may have hurt his foot. I’m hoping he comes to Saratoga for the Travers, but his owners attitude will probably keep him in California. Pity that.