This post has something to do with the Derby, but it isn't about it. Well, maybe a little.

Recently read:

NBC analyst Bob Neumeier correctly predicted favorite Big Brown would win. That
prompted NBC handicapper Mike Battaglia, citing confident Big Brown trainer
Richard Dutrow Jr., to say Neumeier "drank the Rick Dutrow Kool-Aid" — with
Neumeier adding "on the rocks." Has everybody forgotten the origin of that
relatively young cliché?

Wait, I'm hardly an alcohol drinker (wouldn't do it even if I was old enough), but aren't "the rocks" just ice? It may be a bit of an off-color, mixed metaphor, and this probably wasn't his intention, but it does seem to work...

(All I have to say about the death of Eight Belles is that, regardless of whether or not horse racing objectively needs to change anything, they need to do something or they could risk becoming absolutely dead, as people will see it as an insensitive sport where deaths of competitors are simply brushed off, even induced in some circumstances. At this point, Big Brown winning the Triple Crown, far from revitalizing horse racing's popularity, could actually crush it, because a big reason for watching the Triple Crown - seeing a horse win it for the first time in 30 years - will be gone.)