Daily Sun misses the boat...
 

Today is one of the biggest days in sports history. It's the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby ! Yeah! It's the longest continuously held sporting event in the world.

Think the Daily Snooze would list the 20 horses in the race and maybe the moring line odds? Nope! Just a quick article they bought from the Associated Press and a local interest story.

Not worth the paper it's printed on.

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Then do not buy it. Simple fix.

They probably needed to run another article praising the developer.

and they printed nothing during the America's Cup - the World's oldest international sporting competition (1851)

I wrote the sports editor last week and asked if you have finally finished your move into your new facility why are the majority of baseball games listed as night games and therefore no box scores are provided even though they were played on the east coast... the response was that the old deadline of midnight was change to 9PM and then to 10PM ... but that the dead line was still an open issue

Not really.
Like the Oscars...........fewer watching every year.
Plenty of online info for you.

Doesn't bother me. In fact I'd prefer less coverage on television and other media of the Derby, America's Cup, Daytona 500 and the Indy 500.

I couldn't care less about any of them. I think that more and more people feel this way.

I think that it's hard to get excited about a sporting event when you have no connection to it. In team sports like baseball, football, basketball and hockey the teams represent a city or region. I know that the players on these teams don't come from the places that they represent but most sports fans feel a connection to their home town team.

It's the same for college sports. You want to see your college team or your kid's or parent's college team do well. You might also feel a connection to a college team from your home town.

But in sports like The Kentucky Derby, unless you've placed a bet, you don't really care who wins. Most people don't care. I look at the internet to see who the winner is but it's not like I really give a hoot.

The only exception it comes to the Belmont Stakes, if the horse has won both the K Derby and the Preakness. Then we're looking a history possibly being made. That's one fo the reasons Tiger Woods was so popular. People who had no interest in golf were suddenly tuning in each week to the "Tiger Show" because they knew they were watching something special. It was something might only happen once in a lifetime. Maybe once ever.

The other exception is if you play a sport or have some other connection to it. Millions of people play golf and tennis and bowling so those sports get an audience.

I spent my life in the golf business so I enjoy watching golf. I watch the majors more than the run of the mill event because, again, history might be being made. Golf's majors and a few other tournaments are very exciting to me but I can understand how they are not to people that have never been involved in the game.

The same goes for tennis. I played a bit in my younger days but never seriously so I really have no interest. But I'm sure that there are millions of tennis players that tune in every week.

But unless you feel some kind of connection to a sport or a team most people have only a passing interest.

A 12-1 shot one this year. I saw that and thought "If only I had put $100,000 on that horse." But that's just a passing fantasy.

A few years back I was working at a club where the members had a Kentucky Derby pool. I was asked to get in and they drew horses. I won, but I didn't even watch the race. I wasn't even all that interested then. It was five or ten bucks and I thought, I'll throw it in and will probably lose.

I'm more interested in how to make a good mint julep.

The villages paper is no different then many other . They assume and and rightly so that everyone interested will look at there phone or whatever they use . I like to gamble especially on football but I always check scores of all sports on my phone , I also have Espn + and the Athletic which gives you lots of stories on any sport your interested in , and FYI I had a $20 exacta on the derby yesterday $503 it wasn’t my only bet . I had $100 total exacta bets but all told a nice investment

100% agree!!!

With news online now I am surprised there are still printed papers. :duck:

Some of us old folks enjoying reading a paper along with breakfast.

When we are gone so are the papers. The tree union will be very happy.

Go on TVG, Twinspires, Daily Racing Form, or any of the networks covering the races. Easy fix

Our paper from Louisville, was coverage from front to back. The paper from Mid Michigan had a blurb page 8. Don’t subscribe to any Ocala horse country paper, wonder what it looked like.

Yesterday's news and weather delivered to your driveway.

Do not know what was in the Ocala paper...

.... but I do remember watching THE 2021 DERBY WINNER sell, at the OBS in Ocala. for $1000 in 2019.

You want them to send a reporter to all 3 Triple Crown races? Not that kind of paper!

Hmmm, midgets cruelly whipping millionaires horses is one if the biggest days in sports history? NOT!

They do get most of their news from the AP so not hard to get it.

Basically, just a shill for the developers, their sales department, and a lot of ads.

U.K. has had them since the 15th and 16th Century! 👍 Look up Doncaster Racecourse
 

Look up the Doncaster Racecourse on Wikipedia 👍👍

Not everyone likes to look at a computer screen, tablet or phone to see what’s going on in the world and locally.

That's not all they have missed.

And writing lengthy posts.

“Midgets?” Wow! That was nasty.

Missed a canoe maybe. They could fit a year’s worth of news in a single canoe. I once subscribed to wrap fish in until I realized I didn’t fish and I was giving the paper to my neighbor who did.

Nex round of stimulus funding should include a mandatory iPad for old people.

Totally agree. I was disappointed also.

I realize that paper is really just a marketing tool for TV and not a real newspaper, but we still subscribe. We too still like a paper format, even though we are probably “dinosaurs”.

Hopefully they will do better for the next 2 legs of the Triple Crown. These races are a nice diversion from some of the other news in the world today.

Racing horses are abused more than just about any animal "sport". Check and see how many die or are put down. Way too much effort is put into this "sport". Just another way for humans too abuse animals. What are people looking for when they ride these animals to death

Yes, an absolutely simple fix. We did it a couple of years back, haven't missed a thing, and never look back. There is so little in this newspaper....

I don't agree. The Kentucky Derby brings wonderful memories to us. We watched it Saturday with great enjoyment and remember fun times being there.

There is usually one reason for vilifying The Daily Sun. ONE REASON. I think it does a good job and is not The New York Times or The Washington Post or even The Columbus Dispatch years ago.

Spruce buddy. Did you have money on the winner? We don't gamble so there is a huge difference between us and those that are interested in gambling. That may be the reason you were disappointed, but that information is available on TV and on line.

Unfortunately, you are quite right. The"happy news" is not a real newspaper at all. They also took over the old Sumter Shopper and ruined that, too.

There is usually one reason for vilifying The Daily Sun. ONE REASON. I think it does a good job and is not The New York Times or The Washington Post or even The Columbus Dispatch years ago.

Sir/Madam. I have just read all of your previous posts and I see why YOU don't like the Daily Sun. I think you will be more in tune with the Orlando Sentinel. Or The Tampa Bay Times.

Especially when you can get THE REAL NEWS
 

from some guy posting on the internet while living in his mom’s basement

As a born and raised Louisvillan, I view the Derby as an almost religious experience. Your words would be sacrilegious in my hometown. I don't follow sports and in fact I don't care about horse racing other than the triple crown. I did find a printable post position list online that I used for my derby jackpots so I was happy.

watching a defenseless animal get his butt whipped so that he overexerts himself is not sport. It’s cruelty. If life was fair, the horse should mount the person and wupp his arse.

DR. BOOGIE................

I am a Roman Catholic Jewish Match Maker.

YOU had better soften your views. You may have eliminated from your dating pool, all wonderful women from Kentucky and thereabouts. You cannot KNOW just how serious a mistake that would be. Listen to me. You are writing like a dummy and we are never gonna get you a nice suitable girl. Woman. I meant Woman. You know we G's are your fans.

OK. I'll cancel my subscription to The Daily Sun and tell them the people on Talk of The Villages told me to do so. They'll be glad to hear that.

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To me, the Daily Sun is such a wonderful paper and can’t beat the price! Upon returning to the Midwest all we get to read about is killings, doom and gloom and how awful the Republicans are.. little outside news and $2.50 a day.. but still get it just to see a few highlights, comics and puzzles. We did get some statistics on Kentucky Derby which I dearly love!
Be careful what you wish for!

My spouse’s family has a small thoroughbred farm in Lexington, with 135 breeding mares. The Farm in the 60s, had two horses that went to the derby. Neither won, but it was exciting, in the family box to see the event.
Have been present when fouls were born, the trip to register and name the foal in the first 24 hours of birth, for the derby. Attended yearling sales, and those that were kept, watching them being trained, early morning at 4 am. Have witnessed sales, anywhere from $5,000 to over $100,000, for a new foal.
I had never been around a horse until I met my spouse, but am in awe every time I see the first time they break out in a run.

I quickly learned, you never split the pole, when walking.

Agree, the only reason we still get the paper up north is because we need it to start fires in the wood stove.