It Is Now Post Time.
We're Off.... Say good-bye today, to an old friend, and a Burgerville icon..Jersey Joe Ferraro, (R.I.P.)..To CJ and Stacey, and the Ferraro, family he is in a better place and is in our prayers...
Little known fact, back in the old days, that is what we used too say before, back in the day became vogue...Jersey joined the Army. Now that I think of it, I think everybody that hung at BurgerVille was in the service Jersey was sent to boot camp at Fort Dix, New Jersey, came home on leave and was sent to his duty station in Clementon, New Jersey..for the next three years he was up BurgerVille more than the civilians..Thus the name Jersey Joe, he was in the Army for three years and never left New Jersey...LOL!! See you on the clouds Jersey..
Marching, into April, and here came Miss May..already rolling along here, for KENTUCKY DERBY DAY!! Doing this today, because I have a little bit of time, which I don't usually have unless I am hiding somewhere..We have 2 days 9 hours and 1 minute till post, so we better get ready....because if you are not ready, you can't be ready.. My favorite bet on Derby Day was the 2.00 Superfecta Box and the 2.00, 4 horse tri-fecta box..let me explain.. When you bet a superfecta you have to pick four horses they have to come in 1,2,3,4.. now you box them that means which ever way they finish you win..that bet for 2.00 is 48.00 you would get the whole payout..Now if you did it for a dollar it would be 24.00 and you would get half the payout..OK, now the caveat..If you bet a four horse superfecta box..you have too take those same 4 horses and bet them in a trifecta box...Why?? what if three of them come in and you don't have it, and it pays 48,000.00 need I say more.. So, what you do is take your four picks and get a 2.00 or 1.00 trifecta box..Both of these bets combines would be either 48.00 or 96.00....48.00 would get you half the payoff...96.00 would get you the whole price.. Not everyone will agree with me on this, but in this particular race the payouts usually justify this type of bet.....I don't know for sure but they may have .10 superfecta's I will find out because in this race they would be justified..I know a lot of my friends are gagging on that one, me talking about .10 superfecta's LOL!! they pay back 10% and only cost 2.40 to box 4 horses, hell I will take 10% of 180,000.00 right about now...They do not have .10 trifecta boxes..
Movin on, I have a picture on the bunker wall of Churchill Downs, the inscription reads, The Kentucky Derby the most exciting two minutes of your life with your clothes on....Now, that is pretty significant because it is certainly exciting, especially if you have those four horse up front in the stretch, but I have to take exception to the two minute theory, as SECRETARIAT!! ran it in under two minutes....!! that is incredible. I don't think that will ever happen again..Remember these horses are three years old, never ran a mile and a quarter, and it is a crowd at 20 horses....Pick some Supers, then invest a little money on your favorite numbers, the Kentucky Derby is the hardest horse race of the year to handicap, better off playing birthdays..LOL!!! Talk too you later....A-Z anything Kentucky...
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B.Betting, read above..of course that is one mans theory on betting this race, and don't forget that man is a Simpleton.
C-Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, and the second oldest race track in America.. Anybody know the oldest?? Anybody know the third oldest?? Plain anybody...and don't look it up..I didn't get the oldest but I got the next two..2nd. Churchill Downs, 3rd?? where are ya Plain.. whacking off again...
D-Down Under, when I went to the Kentucky Derby, I rode in a bus with 50 other people all friends and family, now this was in the seventies, and I had coolers full of Miller High Life..Well before we even got on the Turnpike I was upfront with the bus driver, I had a guitar and the microphone from the bus..I was slipping him beers and he was singing his heart out with me...Yep, Frank the bus driver...When we finally get to Pittsburgh, his relief driver is trying to get on the bus, but he tells them he is going with us...Yep, took the bus driver too the Derby with us...Get too Cincinnati and it is 6AM they tell me we are stopping for breakfast, so the people start departing the bus when the Simpleton, realizes they will all be in front of him and Frank his new found friend the bus driver and I am starving, so I grab him and off the bus we go, fuckin AIRBORNE,,Hit the ground and a friend of mine who was the head of the largest law firm in New Jersey and a fighter pilot during WW II one Art Montanna. (R.I.P.) my friend, comes running over, Ernie you ok...I got the bus driver on my back, I think I broke my fuckin leg broken beer bottle, and yell, DO I LOOK OK ART!! I digress..anyway Down Under, is the part of Churchill where they laid the bricks to build the original track, it is under the stands (thus down under) well let me tell ya baby that is where the party is...Sooo, I find down under and the ladies with the hats on the mint juleps, in other words I find the Kentucky Derby...Now, we have an owners box with 12 seats that cost 12,000.00 each..I take a look at it sit down and ask Kirk Douglas and John Wayne if they want to go to the real party..then proceed to ask them if they want a taste of my mint julep or do they just want to eat the sprig...Wifey has had it with the Simpleton by then (You believe that) Soooo back under I go...Now, I can't find anybody so I just join the next group of revelers and get a few more juleps, and a few more songs, and and and I hear the call It Is Now Post Time..and everyone down under starts running to wherever they are going to watch the race..Well, and this is a good one, I somehow get turned around and as they are playing my Old Kentucky Home I am surrounded by horses and jockeys and lead ponies, yep I am in the post parade, and don't realize it, until I walk out onto the track.. I start waving and yelling to everybody in the box...Wifey puts her head down, and John Wayne and Kirkie boy are pointing and waving...Ladies and Gentlemen if I am not a lunatic the word does not exist... by the way I met another friend on the bus, one Larry McMullen, reporter from the daily news (R.I.P.) my friend...and he wrote about the Simpletons adventures in the Daily News the next day..LOL!!
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Great story........You are lucky, because there is not much in this life you missed out on. Your Guardian Angel is working and has been working overtime and that works for you. Keep up your lunacy, like My Lady GaGa says, " I was Born This Way".. Proud to have you as a friend...
Back at ya McFinn. As you well know I could do a story a day here at the Ville, if not about me, then about my friends either growing up or now..It is just, that once people started reading those adventures, they would say he is making that up...What they don't realize is nobody can make that up...LOL!!
MMMMMMMM Simple ding dong your wrong!!!!!!! The Fairgrounds in N.O. is the oldest Track in the country, thennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Saratoga thennnnnnnnnnnnnnn Plimbclo and Monmouth that both opened in 1870 thennnnnnnnnnnnnnnn churchill Downs that opened in 1875, nods and walks away.
impleI said the Fairgrounds is the oldest you incorrigable fuck..Phew the shit I gotta put up with around here. Yes Monmouth and Pimlico are old but were not considered race tracks right away.. In fact in Elmont New York there was a race track (Later Belmont) in 1689, but it was for the gentry only, and was a straight mile run. Nods and runs the fuck away.
More Derby coming some wondrous picks, and easy money to be had..GAG!!
Stay Out Of Harms Way My Friends.
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