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knoxvol52 said:
You're right I'm a troll that doesn't know ****...
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I didn't call you that. Don't put words in my mouth.

I just don't believe that a midweek game playing backup pitchers and backups in half the lineup is that consequential. Baseball people know this. It doesn't mean nothing, but it also isn't a serious indictment on the quality of the team.

What the people who do the rankings probably think is more important is the 7 straight SEC series wins and run-ruling Florida in Gainesville to secure the series.

Being #1 or #3 right now is also pretty much nothing but bragging rights anyway. We get to host Regions and Supers either way.
 
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Orange. said:
Kentucky has a midweek loss to Samford.
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Alabama lost to Southern Miss, South Alabama, and UAB. Vandy needed extra innings to beat TTU 11-10, and squeaked by UTM 5-4. Ole Miss lost twice to Hawaii, Arkansas State at home, High Point at home, and Memphis. LSU lost to Stony Brook at home and Southern at home.

Hard to find teams that don't drop early season or midweek games against lesser competition. Especially instate sister-schools who see it as a grand opportunity to build a resume and/or earn bragging rights while big brother is looking towards the next league series and playing backups. It happens.
 
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OGbabyaviVol said:
Not trying to argue, just trying to help yall understand how special that horse was. If it was steroids that caused him to be so elite and destroy that field, he would have done it at the Derby and Preakness. However, as the length of the races got longer, he won by more. Then the Belmont comes and is the longest race of the 3, on top of being the last leg in a very short time period for 3 races to occur against the top competition. Thoroughbreds aren’t made to race that frequently against the best of the best. It’s why it is so hard to win all 3. You have to legit be the best of the best to overcome increasing distances and fatigue. When other horses got tired with each race, Secretriat got stronger. Complete athletic freak…speed and endurance combined into 1 horse!! The only illegal substance that could have helped him do that would be if they were shooting horses up with Epogen (synthetic erythropoietin), which caused them to produce more red blood cells which carry more oxygen, which allows them to not fatigue as fast. I’m not sure that was around in the 70s. It was in the early 2000s, and maybe 90s.
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Epogen came out in the mid 80s, but still too late for Secretariat.
 
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Orange. said:
Agree it would have been more fun to win. But we've had 1 midweek loss for three straight years. That's remarkably low, actually, from what I gather. I wouldn't worry about that.
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I'm not worrying about it, I'm done with everything.
 
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feathersax said:
Visited Secretariat's grave at Claiborne Farms in Lexington a few years ago. Don't follow horse racing, but this was a magnificent creature.
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I hate what the "sport" has become, but appreciate the athleticism of these noble beasts. My daughter loves horses, she started researching and turned me onto it. The race horse circuit is a meat grinder, almost literally, they kill many horses working then out and pushing their limits...... You'd be amazed how many of these horses are disappeared. They are doping horses to the verge of their hearts exploding and beyond. "Milkshakes" are given to almost all of the contenders. Vets, Owners, Managers and trainers are all on the take and obstructing as best they can the public from finding out what they're doing.

As lover of animals if they were all drug out and shot I wouldn't have a huge problem with it. Among the worst of humanity IMO. I wouldn't spit on them if they were on fire.
 
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I dont follow or know enough about baseball, so this may sound like a smart-a$$ question, but it’s a legit question: why do we bother playing the midweek games if they dont even matter for anything? And if they do, then dont the losses matter a lot more?
 
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