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DEI hire, what a cracker POS to say
Jason Portuondo became a judge. Some nights he's judging the races you're wagering on. He's been at the the track since he was he was a kid. I used to rub one for his uncle, Maurice.DEI hire, what a cracker POS to say
Wow i just read many comments and i can not lie when reading i felt like this site has no real gamblers these days and was very unhappy in things i read and see no hope with these shocking posts that do not deal with issues,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I wanted to read one comment about the late money or computer groups and read zero comments,,,,,,,,,,,,, No one is winning and that number makes it a stupid game and any overlay on the board is dead money and extremely low value horses win way to often,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i think i am wrong after reading this topic because you need hard core players to chime in and this site has none that i see, The way the game is going now might help as everyone i know is quitting and this lets pretend its healthy can not go on forever and that be be good when they all lose their jobs, James and Carmen and the boys are to me all crime bosses who think they are great for the game when they were their tuxedos to the O BRIENS, its a B movie these days and the actors are making A list money.
Randy is fine if he's the colour guy but you have to pair him with a gambler-centric figure. Nobody out there watching gives two fucks if a certain trainer is a good guy. Race office is a complete disaster, they haven't ever had a quality person and that's going back to Barry Hewson. They are just dumb and only got by because things were different from 1970-2005 with thousands of horses and 15 other tracks racing full cards as well. The new kid may be worse than Tony and that's saying something although Tony only took the gig to make ends meet not because he had any passion or thought he could fix the product. McClinchy is another great guy but other than ensuring he's out there every time a major milestone is reached, he's busy making sure nobody says a bad word about the product. The WEG board are invisible and always have been so don't expect that to change anytime soon. The food and beverage is beyond a hard pass. The judges are incompetent and don't give a fuck so there's no integrity which translates to the gambler not being protected. If you don't have that, you have nothing. Again, they are riddled with really nice guys like Dorion, Miller and Mike with Jason and Reid soon to be their replacements but nothing will change. They will just continue to collect their government paycheques. Ditto for Billy O, WEG personal replacement to Jimmy Whelan and basically a conduit to get the horsemen's association to rubber-stamp their agenda. How's that working out for the horsemen? I've been around long enough to known Tom Joy, have lunch with Charles Juravinski and have numerous calls with Flemming. There's an old saying that goes something like this: those that created the problem shouldn't have a seat at the table in trying to fix the problems. Unfortunately that's not the case and it's only going to get worse. Wish I had a more bullish take on things up there as it was always the gold standard for years.
Great insight everyone! Honestly there are lots of great ideas, many should be implemented to help improve the product. I completely agree with shutting off the betting even when the countdown clocks get to 30 seconds, then you can see before the gate folds who’s likely to mess your pick 5 wager on one you left off the ticket. I liked Jason Pirtuondo personally, good guy knows horses. It’s been said before but the horseplayers journal used to be great to read when Middleton Sr did it, Reid did a good job as well. The general public just likes getting more information, the more details the better.
