By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
I am all about giving credit when and where it is due. It is due. I just don't know where because I couldn't find it on the ChicagoTribune.com (where these two pics came from), and I would love to give someone credit for it. I am sorry for not acknowledging a job well done, Trib photographer, but I assure you I am not profiting from your good work.
Those two photos arranged like that is great work.

That's how I roll.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Great Photo of Aramis Ramirez's Walkoff HR by the Chicago Tribune
Monday, May 17, 2010
Cool View From my Plane


By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
I wish this picture had come out better, but my camera phone isn't the highest-powered camera of all time.
It's the Willis (formerly Sears) Tower sticking up through the clouds.
That's how I roll.
How T.R. Got His Preak On
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
My Dad's friend has had Preakness seats for a long time and invited us out. So we went. It was my first time at the Preakness and and Pimlico. Leading up to the race all everyone told me, my Dad's friend included, was to not get my hopes up about Pimlico- it's a dump.
We got there Friday on Black-Eyed Susan Day. Here were our seats.
Yes, that is the finish line right in front of us (and that little booth thing on the bottom right that you can't see all that well is the television camera fixed on the wire). So we got there and I couldn't believe how awesome our seats were and how empty the place was. As you can we were inside and we were on the third level. I had never had such good seats for any race ever, much less on the day of a Grade 2 race like the Black Eyed Susan.
I asked my dad's friend how he got those awesome seats and he had a funny story about them. He said that about 20 years ago he asked a higher-up at the company he worked for if he could help him out with some seats for the Preakness and he told him, "I will get right back to you about that." Upon getting back to him he said, "A trainer by the name of XXX canceled his seats. Call Pimlico race track and tell them you would like them and they are yours." So he called them up and they were his. The next year he received a letter asking him if he would like to renew his seats again for that year's Preakness. That is all it took to get seats on the wire for a triple crown race.
This was the section directly across the aisle from our awesome seats. Oh, this was taken on Preakness day. The seats closest to the camera are right on top of the wire and the furthest seats are just past the wire. As you may be able to ascertain, it wasn't all that crowded. When a huge block of some of the best seats in the stadium, your business could probably do better.
Which brings me to my next point about Pimlico: My complaints.
Pimlico wasn't god awful, but it could very easily be twice as good with a few minor tweaks.
1. We couldn't hear the track announcer from our seats. That's a big problem. The sound was piped in, but was hardly audible. It sucked.
2. Not only could we hardly hear the track announcer, but they never told you when the race was about to start (we would have been able to faintly hear an announcement, but there were none). Post Time was posted on a few different tote boards, but when your nose is buried in your Racing Form, it's nice to have an auditory reminder to go bet. It's good business for the track to announce when the race is about to start because when they say, "4 minutes until Post Time" what they mean is, "Hurry up and get your bets in, everyone.". Pimlico didn't do that and of the four people in our party, someone got shut out at the ticket window about 3 times, costing Pimlico precious money that they can't afford to lose.
Saratoga does a much better job of this and I took it for granted. You hear, "5 minutes until post time", then you'll hear, "It is now Post time." or "The horses have reached the starting gate, they're at the post". Which means, "5 minutes to bet", "hurry up and bet, you're lucky the race hasn't gone off yet." and, "you've got about 30 seconds to get your bet in.", respectively.
3. Obstructed views. Not only couldn't we hear the announcer from our seats, but we can't even see the backstretch due to all of the tents and other stuff- and we were on the third level! It's hard to feel like you are watching the race live when you can't hear see the whole race or hear any of it. I watched most of the races on the television monitors.
4. The tote board. No where was I able to see how much money was in the win, place, show or exacta pools- not on the toteboard itself on the infield, or on any tv monitor that I saw at any part of the track. On the off-chance an informed bettor ever went to Pimlico, I bet they would wish they could see that.
Also stinky about their toteboard is how they display the exacta probable payouts. They display it in the usual way: with the horses numbered vertically down the left-hand margin. It might look something like this for a 9 horse field. Then where it says "exacta will pay 2 and" will eventually scroll to "Exacta will pay 3 and", etc. until they show you every combination over the course of maybe 5 minutes of scrolling through all the choices.
win odds: Exacta will pay 2 and
1. 5-2 35
2. 10-1 X
3. scratched scratched
4. 9-5 22
5. 4-1 45
6. 8-1 75
7. scratched scratched
8. scratched scratched
9. 15-1 155
This is where my complaint comes in. It's customary for the scrolling board to simply skip over the scratched horses. For instance, in this example it would go from showing the probably willpays from the 2 directly to the 4. Since the 3 is scratched, he will not be in the exacta and displaying his will pays would be a waste of everyone's time.
Well, at Pimlico they show you anyway.
So it will say
win odds: Exacta will pay 7 and
1. 5-2 scratched
2. 10-1 scratched
3. scratched scratched
4. 9-5 scratched
5. 4-1 scratched
6. 8-1 scratched
7. scratched X
8. scratched scratched
9. 15-1 scratched
then after it finishes cycling through the 7 willpays, it will go on to show the same thing for the scratched 8 horse. For them to show that is unthinkably irrational.
5. There were no restrooms on the third level.
Those 5 things were exceptionally irritating and would be so easy to fix. Let's step it up a bit Pimlico, but otherwise I had an outstanding time.
That's how I roll.
The Chicago Banksy and a Very Handsome Blogger


By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
I checked out the Chicago Banksy today. It was awesome. It's right in the Fulton Market district, which is one of my favorite areas of the city. Thank you to the friendly bystander and fellow Banksy enthusiast for taking these pictures and suggesting the pose in the top picture.
That's how I roll.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Jupiter Lost one if its Rings

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
Seriously. That's kinda awesome. 
That's how I roll.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Free Preakness PP's Available

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
While the entrants are not yet official for the Preakness, the Past Performances of the likely entrants is available at the Daily Racing Form's website. 
That's how I roll.
Cool Bannerhead Logo on the Chicago Tribune Today

I like it.
ChicagoTribune.com
I wouldn't mind if the feathers were hanging from the, "C" in, "Chicago" and the, "T" of, "Tribune" were a Taser. As in "Don't Toews me bro".
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
That's how I roll.
England Being England

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
Regrettably, I was watching CNN's resident drunk driving homicide expert, Rick Sanchez, interview an Englishman about England's new PM, Davide Cameron making strange bedfellows with the Liberal party and their leader, Nick Clegg.
The Englishman effectively said, "These are two unlikely groups to make friends with one another, we will see how long the honeymoon lasts. Some people think this could explode." After he said as much he threw in, "...it is what some people in the English media are calling 'The Poisoned Chalice.'."
You can't always count on England to be awesome, but you can ALWAYS count on England to be England. The country that is, not Lynndie England.
That's how I roll.
Loyal Divide, Vision Vision video
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
This video is weird, then cool, then you realize what's going on, and it's crazy awesome. You may prefer watching it on full screen, which means you'll have to watch it on vimeo.com.
If you don't see what's going on, scroll down to the very bottom after the video, read the spoiler, then re-watch.
hat tip to Tello Real for schoolin me to this one.
Loyal Divide - Vision Vision (Directed by BBGUN) from bbgun on Vimeo.
Spoiler Below:
further below
further
closer
ok: the catch is that the video is just real dudes dressed in black with white stripes on their black clothes. There is very, very, very little animation done.
That's how I roll.
Pin the Tail on the Jackass: Would you Support This Mystery Baseball Team?
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
There is an MLB team that is the following:
3rd in team payroll with $146 mil. (see below, win %age inserted next to team name)
1st in ticket average ticket price ($52.56, SPOILER ALERT IF YOU CLICK THE LINK)
2nd in total cost to take a family of 4 to a game ($329.74, $5 shy of first place)
tied f0r 23rd best record in baseball (out of 30 teams) with a winning %age of .424.
1. Could you make a case for any team's general manager being worse?
2. Would you support this team?
3. (Spoiler alert if you click here) By the way, they have about 2 players worth watching.
4. They haven't won a world series in over 100 years.
5. The sizes of hot dogs at their stadium should be small, medium, large, Prince Fielder's Choice.
6. #5 was just something I threw in that wasn't totally related.
| 2010 Team Payrolls | |||||
| No. | Team Current Win % | Payroll | Average | ||
| 1. | New York Yankees .677 | $206,333,389 | $8,253,336 | ||
| 2. | Boston Red Sox .515 | $162,747,333 | $5,611,977 | ||
| 3. | XXXXXX .424 | $146,859,000 | $5,439,222 | ||
| 4. | Philadelphia Phillies .625 | $141,927,381 | $5,068,835 | ||
| 5. | New York Mets .531 | $132,701,445 | $5,103,902 | ||
| 6. | Detroit Tigers .563 | $122,864,929 | $4,550,553 | ||
| 7. | Chicago White Sox .406 | $108,273,197 | $4,164,354 | ||
| 8. | Los Angeles Angels .441 | $105,013,667 | $3,621,161 | ||
| 9. | Seattle Mariners .387 | $98,376,667 | $3,513,452 | ||
| 10. | San Francisco Giants .600 | $97,828,833 | $3,493,887 | ||
| 11. | Minnesota Twins .656 | $97,559,167 | $3,484,256 | ||
| 12. | Los Angeles Dodgers .469 | $94,945,517 | $3,651,751 | ||
| 13. | St. Louis Cardinals .625 | $93,540,753 | $3,741,630 | ||
| 14. | Houston Astros .323 | $92,355,500 | $3,298,411 | ||
| 15. | Atlanta Braves .438 | $84,423,667 | $3,126,802 | ||
| 16. | Colorado Rockies .469 | $84,227,000 | $2,904,379 | ||
| 17. | Baltimore Orioles .281 | $81,612,500 | $3,138,942 | ||
| 18. | Milwaukee Brewers .469 | $81,108,279 | $2,796,837 | ||
| 19. | Cincinnati Reds .531 | $72,386,544 | $2,784,098 | ||
| 20. | Kansas City Royals .344 | $72,267,710 | $2,491,990 | ||
| 21. | Tampa Bay Rays .688 | $71,923,471 | $2,663,832 | ||
| 22. | Toronto Blue Jays .559 | $62,689,357 | $2,089,645 | ||
| 23. | Washington Nationals .563 | $61,425,000 | $2,047,500 | ||
| 24. | Cleveland Indians .379 | $61,203,967 | $2,110,482 | ||
| 25. | Arizona Diamondbacks .424 | $60,718,167 | $2,335,314 | ||
| 26. | Florida Marlins .469 | $55,641,500 | $2,060,796 | ||
| 27. | Texas Rangers .563 | $55,250,545 | $1,905,191 | ||
| 28. | Oakland Athletics .531 | $51,654,900 | $1,666,287 | ||
| 29. | San Diego Padres .613 | $37,799,300 | $1,453,819 | ||
| 30. | Pittsburgh Pirates .438 | $34,943,000 | $1,294,185 | ||

That's how I roll.
2 new Banksy pieces


By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
courtesey of Maxwell Colette's Flickr page
And this just days after finding a Blagojevich bomb was put up in Lakeview, presumably done by CRO.
That's how I roll.
I'm Gonna Beat WhereAwesome Happens Investigation: "I'm Gonna Beat the Fu&%$ing Mexican Piss Out of you, Homey. You Feel me?" Edition
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
Click Here and at the 1:13 mark you will hear a Seattle cop tell a hispanic man, "I'm gonna beat the f&%#ing mexican piss outta you, homey. You feel me?". (sadly, I cannot embed the video here in the article, you'll have to open it in a new tab and watch it).
But it gets better, and this is where the investigation comes in. At the 1:21 our whitey news reporter is saying, "....watch what happens when our officer threatens to, quote, beat the effing mexican piss out of you, homey". Let's face it, its awkward/hilarious to hear a reporter say that. Aafter he says that, the reporter pauses for a beat or two before beginning with, "as the uncuffed detainee". It REALLY REALLY REALLY sounds like the reporter is smiling. That might sound weird at first, but you know how you can 'hear' someone smiling- their mouth shape changes the tonal quality of their voice slightly enough that you can detect a difference. when he says, "as the uncuffed" he makes as a 3 syllable word, "a-a-as" almost like it has a "ha ha ha" kinda tone.
Well, I think the reporter has it. To me it sounds like he before the camera started rolling he called his buddies at the bar and said, "Swear to God I am not making this up: I convinced my boss to let me say ON AIR, 'I'm going to beat the effing mexican piss out of you homey'. SWEAR. TO. GOD. Tune in at 11. Make sure everyone at the bar sees it. I gotta go."
Then after he said it on air he thought to himself, "My God I have done it!"
That's how I roll.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Blagojevich Tag Now in Lincoln Park (well Lakeview, technically)!
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
I was walking west on Diversey today (a block west of Clark) and what do I see in an alley but the work of my favorite Chicago graffiti artist?
Here was my view from Diversey
And upon closer inspection:
A little Jailhouse Rock motif for our Elvis-loving-soon-to-be-jailed, ex-governor.
Job well done, Ray. Thanks for bombing where I live! It looks great.
That's how I roll.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Where Are They Now?: Baby from Nirvana's Nevermind Album Cover Edition

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
According to Shephard Fairey- the baby from the cover is now 19 years old and works for him doing street art:
Now I have a crew of about four art assistants who help me do the murals on the street and everything. One of them was actually the baby on the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind [1991]. He’s 19, and he’s really into drawing and street art and all that stuff.

That's how I roll.
Vote for the Best Tecmo Bowl Players
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
Lawrence Taylor being in the news got me thinking about something: Tecmo Bowl. I was surprised that I couldn't find any lists of the best Tecmo Bowl players except for this respectable video.
I decided to vote for best offensive player and best defensive player. If I leave any players out, let me know in the comments or via email or twitter and I will add them if they belong on the list.
The list is:
Offensive:
Bo Jackson
Jerry Rice
Walter Payton
Herschel Walker
Kevin Mack
Anthony Carter
Webster Slaughter
Defensive:
Lawrence Taylor
Ronnie Lott
Mike Singletary
Hanford Dixon/Frank Minniefield
Darrell Green
Dexter Manley
That's how I roll.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
when news isn't news
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
I think I've posted this before but it bears repeating.
When the world's oldest person dies it is NOT news.
Huffington Post, this is news I cannot use. How are they not the most likely person in the world to die? And it isn't like I knew anything about the old person, either. What the headline really says is, "The most predictible thing imaginable happened on the other side of the world to someone you have never heard of."
It's almost as non-newsy as the headline, "middle east peace talks fail". You know what media? We EXPECT that.
However, there is one circumstance I would find the death of the world's most likely person to die newsworthy: If it was foretold by the death cat!!! Dun Dun dunnnnn!!!!!!
That's how I roll.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Recapping my Abject Derby Humiliation
By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
Yesterday was the KY Derby and had a Floyd Mayweather fight. It reminded me of the article where I said my dream is for Mayweather to fight Manny Pacquiao in the infield of the track while Zenyatta races against Rachel Alexandra.
Yesterday's derby and Mayweather's fight shared two common links yesterday: both were favored and both significantly changed their usual game plans en route to victory. Money Mayweather actually initiated a lot of the action in the later rounds- which is rare for him, and Super Saver sat off the lead, which many horse players had little reason to assume would happen.
After looking at Super Saver's previous races, it would be safe to assume that the horse would again go right to the lead. But when Calvin Borel had Super Saver pinned to the rail about 4 lengths off of a suicidal pace, I had a very bad feeling about the future of the Super Saver-less bets I made. Betting all exactas that excluded SS, I couldn't win if SS finished any better than third. So I decided to watch Borel and SS navigate the rail and not look away until I saw two horses pass him, because I knew he was a good horse who was getting by far the shortest trip around the track. When the horses who set the suicidal pace started to fade, it was SS who reached them first and passed them like they were standing still.
No one passed Super Saver and Borel and I watched him hit the wire first. He ran a race I didn't think he would, or frankly could, and won. Great game plans by trainers Roger Mayweather and Todd Pletcher. And that's probably the first time those guys have been in the same sentence together.
That's how I roll.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Review of Exit Through the Gift Shop

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
(photos courtesy of the author)
First of all, I didn't know that the dude that was doing the filming was Mr. Brainwash.
Exit Through the Gift Shop came out at my local theater today and I couldn't wait to check it out. What I knew going into it was that it was a documentary of one French guy trying to film my favorite artist Banksy (whose identity is known to only a handful of people in the world and no one in the media) but Banksy turns the tables on him and films him. That didn't seem wildly intriguing, but I was going to see it anyway since it was about Banksy and by Banksy.
It turns out that the turning of the tables catches the infancy of a meteoric rise to art stardom by Thierry, the film maker, who becomes Mr. Brainwash essentially overnight. Banksy is the undisputed king of graffiti art and Shepard Fairey is honorable runner up. They are like the Tony Hawk of graffiti art- unquestionably put it on the map, and by doing so can be construed by the most arduent pursits[read: poor] as selling out.
So what makes this film so interesting is that a decade ago this french dude meets Shephard Fairey and films Fairey putting up his nearly ubiquitous in L.A. Obey Giant posters, and even helps out in the graffiti/street art process. Being that street art is so ephemeral Fairey and his street art cronies become fast friends with this passionate film making guy who could eternalize their slaved-over art with his video camera. They spend so much time, money and effort, not to mention the risk of it being illegal, on their art that it's a shame that they have to put it up at night then run away as fast as they can without having time to stop and admire it. Sometimes their work gets covered up before they get a chance to come back to see it, so having it all documented was awesome for them.
So Thierry, the film maker (who will become Mr. Brainwash) becomes fascinated with this culture and grows to be wildly passionate about capturing important street art being created and installed. He films all the best street artists except the best, Banksy. He tries everywhere to get any info on him he can.
Long (but amusing and fun to watch in the movie) story short, he eventually meets Banksy and Banksy allows him to film him on a few conditions- it's never of Banksy's face (at first) and Banksy will be the owner of all recordings of him (or at least have access to his personal archives). So their mutualistic symbiotic relationship flowers and they become friends. Eventually for some reason Thierry gets the itch to start doing his own art. So he does and it's pretty decent, and his addictive and passionate personality kicks in again and he becomes entranced in his own work, tirelessly tagging buildings and putting up his stickers. The art that Thierry created wasn't blowing away any graffiti purists- it's a bit trite and looks like a guy trying to copy Banksy.
Eventually Banksy suggests that he put on his own show of his art work because if Thierry wasn't around to bug Banksy, Banksy could finally rifle through all the taped footage on his own to make a documentary in peace and quiet. Thierry and Mr. Brainwash, now one and the same, take the advice. To the Nth degree. If N = a lot.
Mr. Brainwash isn't all that adept at creating his own visual art, but his creative mind can churn out ideas with German-like efficiency. It's kinda like a composer composing a Symphony- they may not be able to play all the instruments, but the music essentially comes from them. Another way to think of it would be like a fashion house- Dior or Chanel or Tom Ford. Well, this is an art house called Mr. Brainwash. In order for the artist to combat not being actually artistic, he hires a team of creative kids, maybe art school grads, to execute his plans. They make a freaking crap ton of art in a short while and rent out a huge, huge, huge, huge (15k feet maybe? I forget) abandoned office BUILDING for the show. It's total pop overkill, the likes of which maybe haven't been seen since Warhol was running the show, just pumping out enough artsy widgets to stay famous.
So Mr. Brainwash has the show and it was a huge success, if sorta gaudy to some critics . Huge. He had close to a $1m in sales for a show that lasted three weeks, after being scheduled for only one (or one weekend maybe, I forgot). Now he's sold all over the world, and his prices command a high price point. So he is now one of the very few members of the fraternity of street artists who have officially cashed in from graffiti. However, he hasn't spent a decade illegally honing his craft. He doesn't even make his own art. He just copied his friends' style and now has a ton of notoriety for some reason.
This film would be like if the kid from Almost Famous grew up to be the founding member of Spinal Tap, even though he was still friends with Led Zeppelin and all the guys in Sweetwater (was that their name?). Another analogy I thought of was that maybe that's why Banksy made the documentary about Mr. Brainwash. Originally Banksy was gonna make it about himself, and while he was getting the footage ready (when he told Thierry to just make himself busy by planning a crapass art show) that's when Mr. Brainwash started to blow up. So Banksy made his documentary essentially, then turned it over to being about Mr. Brainwash and the last part is about him, complete with some ribbing about him cashing in already. So the analogy was that maybe this film is Banksy's film version of Tupac's Hit 'em Up, which was the loudest Fuck You to a group of people ever sold on record. I don't think Banksy made this film mean spiritedly, but I'm sure he didn't mind taking a few deserved, and in good fun, jabs at THE Mr. Brainwash.
This film was fast-paced, fucking hilarious, visually arresting with all the awesome art, and a glimpse inside a world I have been DYING to see since learning about Banksy a couple of years ago. I didn't cover every detail of the movie (even though with the length of this posting, I am sure you are surprised) and the stuff I omitted was as dope as the stuff I included (again, that may surprise you if it didn't sound very dope in the first place).
If you like art, this movie will be to you, what Scarface is to black people.
That's how I roll.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
My 2010 Ky Derby Analysis

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
update: check out how crazy the odds will be tomorrow when betting opens on derby day
I expect a pace meltdown and the winner to be passing horses later than in most KY Derbys. I am basically taking the horses I feel are, 1. Not speed horses, 2. capable of running a 98-105 Beyer, 3. Have won from off the lead before, 4. Can reasonably assume he/she will like the distance and the possibility of a wet track, and finally, 5. Have done #s 1-4 on a dirt track at some point.
Additionally, as with most KY Derbys, I am not conceding in a 20 horse field a LOT can go wrong for ANY horse and the best horse does not always win. With that in mind, I wanted to use a few different horses to increase my coverage. When you are positive where the fish are, you use a fishing pole, and when you think you have an idea where a few might be you use a net. I am using a net and saying, "I'm not positive who will do what, but my guess is that two of these 6 horses will do something good.".
Is my net of 6 of 20 horses bordering on embarrassingly large? Yeah, kinda.
Handicapping:
That narrowing down left me with 6 horses:
1 Lookin at Lucky
10 Paddy O'Prado (admittedly violates rule #5, but I liked his work over a sloppy Churchill)
13 Jackson Bend
14. Mission Impazible
16. Awesome Act
20. Sidney's Candy
After that I rank them in the Steve Crist-ian way of assigning the horses I think are most likely to win with a category of A, then for horses I find slightly less likely to a win a B, and so on with C.
My A horses were- 1, 14, 16
B 10, 20
C 13
Betting:
27 Straight Exactas using the aforementioned horses.
1 with 10, 13, 14, 16, 20- 5 bets total (AA AA AB AB AC)
10 with 1, 13, 14, 16, 20- 5 bets total (BA BC BA BA BB)
13 with 1, 14, 16 - 3 bets total (CA CA CA)
14 with 1, 10, 13, 16, 20 - 5 bets total (AA AA AB AB AC)
16 with 1, 10, 16, 14, 20 - 5 bets total (AA AA AB AB AC)
20 with 1, 10, 14, 16- 4 bets total (BA BB BA BA)
Horses that I wanted to use but didn't because you can't bet every horse, but omitting them from my bet still frightens me a bit:
Ice Box- loves the distance, and I like his local work on the slop on 4/23 an awful lot, but I think may be a one hit wonder with his FL Derby win. It doesn't take Derby winners four tries to break their maiden.
Stately Victor- seems to be the wiseguy horse as of late. Loved his dad but I also think he may be a one hit wonder. If he were destined to win the KY Derby I wonder why 0 of his last 3 starts were over a dirt surface and two were Allowance races. Most Derby winners have a more impressive resume heading into the derby.
Devil May Care- plenty to like, but there are too many question marks for me: going against boys for the first time- 19 of them, to be precise; she gets blinkers for the first time since she wore them in the Breeder's Cup and got humiliated by a field of 12 females.
Undercard:
I don't think I will wind up playing the undercard any, but I had entertained the idea of playing a few pick 3s. I handicapped the undercard a bit and for the following races I'd use the following:
Race 6: 2
Race 7: 5
Race 8: 2, 3, 6, 10
Race : 7, 12
Race 10: 6,2
That's how I roll.
A Brief MultimediaTreatise on Pharmicaology and Women With Large Buttockses

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter
It's pronounced like "Ass Effects". Call me awesome fashioned, but when I think of ass effects I think of this:
After I peept dat donk ah was all "ohhh maaa gaaa"
That's how I roll.