Tom Sawyer Wrote:
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> The paradox that the Dr in question has created is
> that by spilling some of the beans to the Jockey
> Club Godfathers he has in effect because one of
> the good guys in their view. His genius lies in
> making himself so desirable that the all ethics
> are tossed out the window in order to ensure that
> his services will be rendered. Parlaying that
> reputation into his Lubrisyn/ReBourne product line
> which is now probably outpacing his direct
> racetrack revenue tenfold he has used larceny to
> his benefit. His maneuvering by which he turned
> the tables on a Jockey Club desperate to obtain
> real life information in their odd fight with
> lasix and trainers in general added to his
> repeated stance against legal medications like
> lasix is nothing short of PR genius. All of a
> sudden the Dr is on the same side as the Jockey
> Club on their pet issue and is seemingly the lone
> racetrack practitioner called for the abolition of
> that lasix stuff and has placed himself to the
> unknowing as a vet with a conscience. That crazy
> dude that is threatening to start World War III in
> North Korea could do worse than hire the Dr to
> shore up his public image and perhaps turn his
> soldiers into Rambo's with his DOJ stuff.

This reminds me of something I read somewhere about Mike Piazza. Basically, everybody knows that he was using back in the day. However, unlike a lot of guys from the same era, he befriended a lot of key reporters and he told them on a strictly off the record that he was using (but not too much). Basically, as a matter of journalistic ethics....because, he had confessed to them but in a strict off the record context, a lot of the important reporters were hamstrung from reporting very much on him. I have no idea whether this is true or not. I have only heard it as hearsay. However, it is potentially an interesting parallel to the Dr. Allday scenario.

Btw, I am sure people have made jokes about it already, but doesn't it even seem like Allday's name is a joke out of an Austin Powers movie? As in, they call me Dr. Allday because my patients run all day!