George's team is in fifth, his horse is in seventh....and I'm....

...in heaven! O8)

Do feel bad for Belalmy Road, though--poor horse didn't have a choice as to who its owner was!

Told my Dad the other day Steinbrenner accomplished a miracle. Made me care who wins a horse race. :-)

...wondering if all the bad vibes all us people sent out towards George affected the horse?

good race!

I know nothing about horse racing but always watch the Triple Crown. I do know horses so I watch before the race and then pick who I like the looks of and on the little history they give you.

My #1 was third and the others I don't know where they ended up but pretty low. Usually I do much better than this but like I said, I don't really know anything about racing.

I did really like this race and was glad Seinbrenner's horse did not win because I think he is creepy. Nice horse but would he really have had those odds if it had been your horse or mine? Had he really done that well before?

I do not know why but I always cry at horse races. I love horses so I really do not love racing, it is often cruel. Something about those grand animals and their heart always makes me cry. Silly me.

won the first two legs, but then failed to get the Triple Crown.

Only been to horse racing once--on a trip to kentucky, of course. They really are beautiful animals.

We used to race our Quarter horses for fun out in the pastures and that is the extent of my experience with racing. Whew, it is hard work, really.

I did really well picking last year but I don't remember the year before but I did like the winner of the first two I just can't remember his name lol. There, that is how serious I am about it.

Still, this year was quite a pack. Fast and close. Did you see those aerial shots? I can't imagine doing that. Very exciting race.

I guess neither of us can claim to be real followers of the sport!

but it is always an interesting sport to watch. At least the big 3 for me are.

...I wonder what it would be like at the Derby in person? Probably 6 or 7 hours of drinking, and then hoping you're coherent enough to watch the actual race!

Anyway, I've heard it's sort of like that.

that a box was $260,000.00 for the year? I would imagine being on the ground would be fun but like at a concert you would not see much.

a favored pasttime of the rich...get a load of what some of those people were wearing!

the outfits are something. Southern Belle styles and it creeps me out. I am a female who gave up dresses long ago and can't imagine being in heels and formal wear at a horse race but I guess in the boxes it is just like a party. I do love the hats though, they are lots of fun to look at.

I was in Europe during the recent inbred git festivites, and the papers had tons of photos of the attendees--it was actually quite frightening!

post your pictures? I looked and did not see a post about them.

...do a search and see if they're still there. I also posted a couple times before and didn't get much of a response, so I've been kind of lax...I'll try and post some in the next day or so and send you a pm to alert you!

Gotta go--dinner is calling. Na shledano!

and thanks! I must have just missed them.

Na shledano back at you whatever that means! I hope it is nice, lol.

Man, those are impressive and very, very beautiful. Please do alert me. I have spent no time at all in Europe. A week in Russia is the best I have been able to do across the Atlantic.

trying to connect to a flight to Moscow--like me, we landed in JFk after our international flights were supposed to leave--lots of running and swearing! I barely made mine--not sure if they did!

Moscow and St. Petersburg. My town did the big Tsar exhibit exchange with the Armory museum in Moscow and a relationship was made with a singing group my kids were in in their grade school. We were invited officially and the kids became the first ever group allowed to have a performance in that museum. We got first class treatment from the people so it was very enjoyable. We took the train to St. Petersburg and traveled all around there, the kids did performances all over the place. It was a very wonderful experience.

I did find out that I do not travel East very well. It took me almost the entire week to wake up.

If you ever have the chance to visit I would say that Moscow is amazing, Lenin looks like Lenin jerky in wax and be careful, one false move and they will point those guns at you. Go to the Moscow circus and sit on the front row if you feel suicidal.

St. Petersburg is more international and more comfortable. The Hermitage could take you months to go through if you really wanted to study and the palaces around the area, well, you just have to see them and then drive through the slums.

...The Hermitage is on my list of places to see before I die. Wouldn't mind seeing Lenin. I hear there's a push to just go ahead and bury him somewhere, since he wasn't, well, all that much of a nice guy and they're slightly embarrassed now to be honoring him.

I'm with you--took me over a week to adjust. And around the third night you wake up at like 2 a.m. and can't fall back to sleep!

Moscow was still very tense but not scary. Red Square is just amazing to see in person, so much history and don't miss the Armory Museum there, all the Faberge Eggs were amazing not to mention all the rest.

The Hermitage just goes on forever. I saw my first Michelangelo there, a small pieta and the Rembrandt room will change you forever. I never cared all the much for Rembrandt, respected his work but that room full of his paintings pointed out to me the sheer genius of his work.

The churches are interesting, all the different Icons and the different people praying to them. It reminded me a little of the churches in Mexico for a reason I can't come up with.

Really, you have to experience the Circus. Of course the ballet too. Don't forget the "Chernobyl" ice cream. That was our joke about the green, non refrigerated but cold ice cream. Strange stuff.

I will have to scan my pictures for you someday. Don't hold your breath but if I do it I will PM you.

in Brugge...it is the ONLY work of his to have left Italy during his lifetime! Oh, and you really need to get to Amsterdam and the Rijksmuseum--Rembrandt for days!!!!!!!

Oh, and I'm trying to rotate this--if I can, I'll repost it to you!

Don't worry about rotating it. I am on a laptop and can turn it around with ease!

now I can't find it on photobucket!

but somehow its not gonna be fun to be an employee of the Yankees I get the feeling. Hes already going after the pitching, Torre was defending Stottlemeyer in a newspaper article I read today.

Today's matchup clearly favors the A's, Harden is 2-1 and Brown is 0-4.

player in baseball when the Dodgers took him? And when one of the clauses in his contract was that he got to travel first class, so he essentially didn't travel with the rest of the team!?!

My, how the mighty have fallen. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

I think the A's offense will explode against him so the A's will take 2 of 3 in New York. BTW had they lost yesterday, it would been their worst start after 31 games since 1913, the same year my dad's father was born.

I think kevin set the record, and then A-Rod just exploded it!

but I am not gonna worry until they get to less than 5 games out of first, and the way orioles are playing, I have nothing to worry about. They're not showing any signs of getting better really. Meanwhile, the Orioles are dispelling the myth that they are just a hitting team, the starting pitching has been great as of late and their team ERA is 4.05. This pitching isn't like the pitching that made the team great under Earl but it gets the job done. Sidney Ponson and Daniel Cabrera and Steve Kline need to get their ERAs down a little and every thing will come in to place. Raffy Palmeiro, Gibbons, and Bigbie need to have their bats come to life too.

...I feel the way about the Red Sox the way you do about the Orioles...the picthing needs to improve. But it's a good sign that both teams are doing so well and they're not yet living up to their potential!

the pitching though seems to be getting better though, they're in the top third of the MLB when it comes to pitching, I'd prefer they be in the top 5, because if Chicago White Sox keep up, we're gonna have to beat them with more than just hitting should things go that far.

...but they've been known to fade.

Dontrelle Willis is incredible this year.

them around a bit...