Re: Be Very Afraid New York race fans (1114 Views)
Posted by:
phil45 (IP Logged)
Date: May 18, 2004 09:17PM
STB, thanks for a great post. I think everyone is exactly right about this guy. As a Canadian I've seen what a self promoter this huckster is.
I think the one hope racing has is that he hangs himself with his own words. How could anyone, ever the blind fools in Albany, have watched his attempted takeover of the post Preakness celebration on live tv and come away thinking this guy is anything but an absolute arrogant blowhard.
And I'd like to commend Bob Costas for realizing this and basically just cutting Frank off. There are not too many sports reporters that would have had the balls to do this, but Costas is smart enough and experienced enough (see his fine history of interviews on the Later program and now HBO) to smell a rat even when it's going on live with chaos surrounding him. To me, his ability to quickly cut away from Frank was one of the highlights of Preakness day.
Most other reporters in the sports industry (such as almost all the fools/hacks working for ESPN) would have just let Frank go right on talking.
Let's just hope that Frank, given enough rope, hangs himself with his own words.
But as many have pointed out this is unlikely. If I were a betting man... (lol)...I'd set the odds as follows
MEC at least partially involved in NYRA within 2 years:
YES-180
NO +160
Hope we're all wrong about this though, as clearly he is just about the worst possible thing that could happen to New York racing.