{"id":200326,"date":"2021-05-10T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/10\/thats-what-i-thought-youd-say-you-dumb-fing-horse-trainer\/"},"modified":"2021-05-10T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T23:03:00","slug":"thats-what-i-thought-youd-say-you-dumb-fing-horse-trainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/05\/10\/thats-what-i-thought-youd-say-you-dumb-fing-horse-trainer\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s What I Thought You&#8217;d Say, You Dumb F%$#ing Horse Trainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/JcA0x.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/JcA0x.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>When an athlete is caught doping, generally I blame the athlete first and foremost.<\/p>\n<p>I make an exception in the case of Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit, because sane people to do not assign the same level of agency that they would to a human athlete.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I do ascribe a level of agency to Bob Baffert, Medina Spirit&#8217;s trainer, and when<a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/horse-racing\/2021\/05\/10\/bob-baffert-medina-spirit-kentucky-derby-cancel-culture\"> he claims that Churchill Downs&#8217; decision to revoke his horses win, and to suspend him is, &#8220;Cancel Culture<\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So says a guy who for Medina Spirit is the, &#8220;fifth horse in 13 months to test positive,&#8221; and before that his, &#8220;Horses have failed 29 drug tests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And he&#8217;s blaming, &#8220;Cancel culture,&#8221; for his juicing horses.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a complete tool, but I am grateful to have the opportunity to adopt one of John Mulaney&#8217;s best known lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an athlete is caught doping, generally I blame the athlete first and foremost. I make an exception in the case of Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit, because sane people to do not assign the same level of agency that they would to a human athlete. On the other hand, I do ascribe a level &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1092,1013,1051,999,978,1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-culture","category-drugs","category-hypocrisy","category-insane","category-politics","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}