You might want to leave the figure making to those who do it full time.

I'm not concerned about your swipes at me, and I can handle the Raggies. But I don't want the tone on this board to be what it becomes when you are trying to boost your ego. If you make posts about handicapping and pedigree and not about yourself (example above, "string 3 straight derbies"), then things will calm down. If not, I'll calm them down.