JB,

"If you are asking me whether I have information or belief that MD was moving Da Hoss up, the answer is no to both. And yeah, Michael had his moments, although he was one major pain in the butt to work with."

No, I wasn't. I worded that poorly.


"Some years ago, Len and I used to play in a regular 2 on 2 basketball game after the track, against Andy Berg (who went on to make the sheets for trotters), and an Asian kid who hadn't played much ball. The first few times we killed them, then the games got closer."


JB, I've never seen you, but having spent some time with LF, basketball would have been one of my last guesses. Is any of this on film? In the Archives?

"no one was ever less a racist than Friedman-- he put his ass on the line in the South in the sixties."

Compliments about one's character seldom get any better than this. To hear it from a competitor makes it all the more so.

Just speaking as an interested party here, I give you a lot of credit for making such a statement. In the years I've been associated with,or posting on, both boards( 8-10yrs?)there have been far too few of these(on both boards).

That little basketball vignette was very adeptly put. I, personally, draw much more entertainment value here,and there, from these stories of those "developemental" years which give glimpses of the "man" behind the numbers. Based on the reactions from many posters following the recent telling of the robbery saga, I think many others do, too.

Conversely, I am most put off by the self-serving "ego-spasms" that appear. Again, I suspect from reading the comments of other posters on both boards, that others are just as put off. Thanks again, raz