Re: Belmont 9/15 (843 Views)
Posted by:
Alydar in California (IP Logged)
Date: September 24, 2002 06:30PM
Oxford American Dictionary definition of "unfair": "Not impartial, not in accordance with justice." Cheap shots from Friedman do not give you a license to caricature the way Ragozin makes figures. This is not just you against Friedman. If it were, you could justify your comments by citing his comments. The problem is that other people, noncombatants, read this stuff. To the extent that you were suggesting that Ragozin doesn't take rain into consideration, your comments were unfair to THEM.
Here's what you wrote: "I just did Sunday's Belmont figures, and if Ragozin did it the way they usually do (using "objective criteria", which really means making an assumption that the track changes speed either not at all or very little, and therefore using what amounts to an average) there will be some of the most extreme differences you will ever see."
Translation: Ragozin doesn't change his variant even if it starts raining in the middle of the card.
I'll deal with the rest of this later. Should be a lot of fun.