Kentucky Derby Is Overrated!

I caught the Kentucky Derby on Saturday evening before I had to go to work. Let me tell you, what a disappointment.

The event is hyped as one of the greatest events in sports...all 2 minutes of it. I just don't see how it can be considered one of America's greatest sporting events, when it lasts about as long as it took me to type this paragraph.

And another question, why do TV networks pretend that anyone cares about horse racing? It's not 1932 and Seabiscuit and his jockey Tobey Maguire aren't running wild across front pages. I have literally met no one who knows anything about horse racing. Look at that for a second...literally no one. So why do I care that some horse named 'Big Brown' is a 2-1 favorite to win the race? I've never heard that name, and at best I'll hear it two more times in my life. (Unless he gets...yikes...the Barbaro Treatment)

I'll also never understand people who like to bet on horse racing. As one 'expert' I heard on the radio said, one of the variables of the race was that the course was sloppy and the horses might get spooked by mud spraying in their faces. Who in their right mind would risk perfectly good money on this when there are about 1000 things that would be more fun, and less a shot-in-the-dark?

Now I'm not hating on attending the event, which I hear is very fun. I like the idea of tradition, big hats and mint juleps but as a sporting event covered by ESPN and NBC? Please.

Give me The Masters, College World Series, NBA All-Star Game, Little League World Series, NCAA Tournament, The Rose Bowl and anything else. Just don't make me listen to any more coverage of the Run for the Roses.