Years ago, Monday Night Football had a commercial segment thing called, 'You make the call'. Basically, they showed a play from a game archived away, and asked you to make a decision on what you thought the official ruling might be.
This was before Twitter and IM, so there was no feedback or input. You just sat in your La-Z-Boy and bellowed your ignorant, expletive laced diatribe at the screen. After commercial, they gave you the official ruling.
NHL.com, on their videocenter, has a clip of a recent Canucks/Blue Jackets game and a goal scored by CBJ's Antoine Vermette. They ask fans to vote on whether or not they think the puck crossed the line.
What if NTRA put up steward decisions from around the country and asked for input? Not to overrule or change results but just to increase participation? How many hits do you think they might get?
Maybe they should beef up their servers first.
And in the funniest thing I have read today, Steve Munday, on his recent Wireplayer Derby Dozen post, comments on Buddy Saint's FoY:
"Desperate to connect with younger fans, Equibase trip notes for Buddy's Saint in FoY read: 'got pwned'."
03 March 2010
You make the call
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Fascinating suggestion. A few years ago at the Asian Racing Conference, this type of question was asked of racing officials from around the world, showing a series of races where there was an inquiry. The officials couldn't agree on when a DQ was warranted because different countries have different rules of interpretation--some stricter than others.
The U.S. jurisdictions would have similar problems because, for example, rules of thumb or guidelines followed by California stewards may be different than those followed in Florida. Problem is the horseplayer sitting in Illinois and betting on both California and Florida gets thoroughly confused when a DQ is called in California but not in Florida over essentially the same infraction.
Shouldn't that horseplayer expect the same rules to apply no matter where the race is run?
If I'm watching the Bears play the Packers or the Dolphins playing the Jets, the same rules apply.
I'm not sure where this ranks in the list of problems 1-99 that racing has, but it's on that list.
you're a moron
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