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MARKETING POLL/CONTEST #2
#1 – No, I have never been a big sports fan, I can appreciate the hard work and determination it must take to become a top tier athlete but still just don't care for most sports. This Olympics has not changed my mind. I did however have fun playing along with the games as I do enjoy a gamble. If it was down to me I would encourage them to all to take steroids and see how far we can truely push them, you can thank George Carlin for helping me decide that was the best idea.
#2 – Contest #13 JG vs ICE
#1 – No, I have never been a big sports fan, I can appreciate the hard work and determination it must take to become a top tier athlete but still just don't care for most sports. This Olympics has not changed my mind. I did however have fun playing along with the games as I do enjoy a gamble. If it was down to me I would encourage them to all to take steroids and see how far we can truely push them, you can thank George Carlin for helping me decide that was the best idea.
#2 – Contest #13 JG vs ICE
Life has ups and downs, right now I am not up.
Call me inactive and replace my posts as you find them.
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slynch, do you have this book? Now available here at Mobilism.
Great streaks in baseball are idealized versions of the game itself. They combine absolutes of concentration and duration; they exhibit on a continuous basis what one normally expects intermittently; their pace is glacial, and their crucial moments are lightning-quick. The very days of a streak generate all the captivating rhythms associated with baseball: its anticipatory potential, its tensions, its attenuations, its gratifications. And the individual effort required for a personal hitting streak is comparable to what heroic legend calls the aristeia, whereby great energies are gathered for a day, dispensed, and then regenerated for yet another day in an epic wonder of consistency.
No other sustained performance in the history of baseball builds with the drama and explodes with the energy of Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game consecutive hitting streak launched on a hazy Thursday afternoon in New York on May 15, 1941, and grounded on a damp summer night in Cleveland on July 17. Surely, none is more memorable.
The following pages, in prose and pictures, focus on 56 baseball games and on the unforgettable days of a spring and summer in America. There are other books that chronicle the whole DiMaggio saga, including the private marital obsessions that have contributed to Joe DiMaggio’s place in the order of things through the 1950s and 1960s.
I am not charting the biography of a man but the rhythms of a legendary sequence, perhaps the most admired sequence in sports history. To be legendary is to be worthy of written record—that is what legendary means. My intent is to inscribe DiMaggio’s great streak in a context worthy of the memories it evokes
Great streaks in baseball are idealized versions of the game itself. They combine absolutes of concentration and duration; they exhibit on a continuous basis what one normally expects intermittently; their pace is glacial, and their crucial moments are lightning-quick. The very days of a streak generate all the captivating rhythms associated with baseball: its anticipatory potential, its tensions, its attenuations, its gratifications. And the individual effort required for a personal hitting streak is comparable to what heroic legend calls the aristeia, whereby great energies are gathered for a day, dispensed, and then regenerated for yet another day in an epic wonder of consistency.
No other sustained performance in the history of baseball builds with the drama and explodes with the energy of Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game consecutive hitting streak launched on a hazy Thursday afternoon in New York on May 15, 1941, and grounded on a damp summer night in Cleveland on July 17. Surely, none is more memorable.
The following pages, in prose and pictures, focus on 56 baseball games and on the unforgettable days of a spring and summer in America. There are other books that chronicle the whole DiMaggio saga, including the private marital obsessions that have contributed to Joe DiMaggio’s place in the order of things through the 1950s and 1960s.
I am not charting the biography of a man but the rhythms of a legendary sequence, perhaps the most admired sequence in sports history. To be legendary is to be worthy of written record—that is what legendary means. My intent is to inscribe DiMaggio’s great streak in a context worthy of the memories it evokes
But this rose is an extra. - A. Conan Doyle
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HORSE RACING – THE SPORT OF KINGS
Well now, it’s our sport as well. Trifecta means picking the top three horses in the exact order that they will finish.
For those that don’t know:
WIN = Finish First
PLACE = Finish Second
SHOW = Finish Third
So your job will be to pick 3 horses out of the 8 horses in the race and predict the exact order they will finish. Yeah, it sounds tough, and it is. But we will make it easy to win.
If the first horse you pick finishes in the top three, you will share the 1000 WRZ$ pool
If two of your horses finish in the top 3, you will earn a 25 WRZ$ bonus
If all three of your horses finish in the top 3, you will earn a 100 WRZ$ bonus
If you can actually predict the 3 winning horses in the exact order of finish, you will earn a 500 WRZ$ bonus
INFORMATION – DAILY RACING FORM
What is it?
You have to pick three horses. You will earn WRZ$ based on the outcome of the race.
How do you play?
To enter this contest, you will need to post the following:
TRIFECTA CONTEST
And pick three horses from the above list. The order that you type the name will be the order that you think they will finish
EXAMPLE POST
TRIFECTA CONTEST
Tohotoevenspeak
We Did
Calculated Risker
Rules:
Just pick three horses
Only 1 post per person for this specific contest, anymore and all of your posts will be disallowed.
You can earn a bonus based on how the horses finish in the race
ALL PICKS MUST BE MADE PRIOR TO THE FOLLOWING TIMES:
Friday 3:50 PM Chicago (UTC -6)
Friday 9:50 PM GMT (UTC +0)
Or - about 26 and 1/2 hours from the time of this post.
Any picks made after this deadline will simply be ignored.
Any edits after this deadline, and your post will be disallowed.
Reward:
If the first horse you pick finishes in the top three, you will share the 1000 WRZ$ pool
If two of your horses finish in the top 3, you will earn a 25 WRZ$ bonus
If all three of your horses finish in the top 3, you will earn a 100 WRZ$ bonus
If you can actually predict the 3 winning horses in the exact order of finish, you will earn a 500 WRZ$ bonus
FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS
We kind of like the concept of this contest. Plus, the ponies do run just about every day of the year, so plan on seeing some more of these. And with that in mind, after we and you have gotten a little experience with these, our plan is to set up a long term contest incorporating the results of the individual Trifectas into a longer running separate contest with more prizes. We still have the details to work out, and we might have to make some changes as we learn more. But hopefully, you will hear more about this in the future. Stay Tuned!
So... you don’t have a lot of time to make your picks for the first Trifecta
Make your picks.
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TRIFECTA CONTEST
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Prophet's Cat
How can I pass up a horse with the name Prophet's Cat
(NOTE: While the top 3 horses predicted usually do well, if it was this easy to make picks, everybody would win money at the track)
Tohotoevenspeak
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Prophet's Cat
How can I pass up a horse with the name Prophet's Cat
(NOTE: While the top 3 horses predicted usually do well, if it was this easy to make picks, everybody would win money at the track)
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TRIFECTA CONTEST
Toohottoevenspeak
We Did
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I could not pass the third with such a name
That's me to a T
I really like the concept too
And thank you for the explanation of win/place/show
Least but not last, a recommandation for my fellow readers : Dick Francis wrote lots of wonderful books in the world of horses (from different point of view : jockeys, trainers...) If you have never read his thrillers, go and enjoy them
Toohottoevenspeak
We Did
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I could not pass the third with such a name
That's me to a T I really like the concept too
And thank you for the explanation of win/place/show
Least but not last, a recommandation for my fellow readers : Dick Francis wrote lots of wonderful books in the world of horses (from different point of view : jockeys, trainers...) If you have never read his thrillers, go and enjoy them
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We Did
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We Did
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We Did
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We Did
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Prophet's Cat
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Prophet's Cat
