I like the Derby, it brings in lots of money to the city, the city gets national recognition for it, there are a lot of fun events to go to, there's usually someone having a derby party and those are fun.......but when I flip on some sports radio in the weeks around derby I want some REAL sports. Yeah, I get it, 20 animals are going to run for 2 minutes in a few days but how does UofL's football and basketball team look for next year? What's going on with the NBA playoffs, any golf tournaments this week?
For me this is the worst sports time of the year and to be honest it is mainly because the derby, which is a big party is actually covered by the sports side of the media when to me, personally this isn't a sport and the regular news times should be covering it. I never listen to any derby talk on sports radio which basically means I just leave the radio off because it is wall to wall horse talk on every show for 3-6 weeks (they'll still be talking about it when the Belmont and Preakness are going on in other cities), and to be honest I don't even understand what there is to discuss for a month. 20 horses (animals.....not humans.....animals) will run 2 minutes around a dirt track. How can this be discussed so long.
Anyway, to me since the fun of the derby is the party, and animals running doesn't seem like it has anything to do with sports, I've always wished this was covered elsewhere, on the first 20 minutes of the news.....the news part of the news and that the sports portion was sports without derby talk and that any derby talk on the radio would happen during......let's say the WHAS talk time......Mandy Connell, Terry Meiners and Tony Cruz shows. (I know Mandy is gone, I don't know who does that show now). When I turn on Jody Demling or Drew Deener I want NFL draft, UofL football, basketball, baseball, NBA, golf etc. I wish horse talk was separate from REAL sports and didn't talke those shows over.
I'm sure many will passionately disagree with me (and since it is an internet board, many will ignore the topic and just start hurling personal insults, because the internet attracts those types) and say they absolutely consider it a real sport and they'll LOVE the horse talk. So, do you consider the derby itself, the 2-minute horse race an actual sport or do you just consider it a social EVENT?
For me this is the worst sports time of the year and to be honest it is mainly because the derby, which is a big party is actually covered by the sports side of the media when to me, personally this isn't a sport and the regular news times should be covering it. I never listen to any derby talk on sports radio which basically means I just leave the radio off because it is wall to wall horse talk on every show for 3-6 weeks (they'll still be talking about it when the Belmont and Preakness are going on in other cities), and to be honest I don't even understand what there is to discuss for a month. 20 horses (animals.....not humans.....animals) will run 2 minutes around a dirt track. How can this be discussed so long.
Anyway, to me since the fun of the derby is the party, and animals running doesn't seem like it has anything to do with sports, I've always wished this was covered elsewhere, on the first 20 minutes of the news.....the news part of the news and that the sports portion was sports without derby talk and that any derby talk on the radio would happen during......let's say the WHAS talk time......Mandy Connell, Terry Meiners and Tony Cruz shows. (I know Mandy is gone, I don't know who does that show now). When I turn on Jody Demling or Drew Deener I want NFL draft, UofL football, basketball, baseball, NBA, golf etc. I wish horse talk was separate from REAL sports and didn't talke those shows over.
I'm sure many will passionately disagree with me (and since it is an internet board, many will ignore the topic and just start hurling personal insults, because the internet attracts those types) and say they absolutely consider it a real sport and they'll LOVE the horse talk. So, do you consider the derby itself, the 2-minute horse race an actual sport or do you just consider it a social EVENT?
