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Thank God Barbaro is Dead

I was so starting to get sick of that genitically engineered and altered horse. He or she, what ever it is more like a heshe, has more steriods and chemicals than does Barry Bonds or Shawn "Lights Out" Merriman. It was ridiculous they should have put it down earlier and ease its suffering.

It is ridiculous how greedy we are. There has been more money spent saving that horse's life than to save people lives in Darfur or any other African country.

More people have probably donated and sent get well cards to that horse than the soliders in Iraq. Its a joke and how that horse became a circus after it got hurt.

They should have put it out of its missery a long time ago.

But since we are "humane" and "caring" we won't let it die. The real reason is because of the breeding purposes. If that happens to any old farm horse its put down right on the spot.

The irony in this is we are trying to be humane while at the same time people race and make millions of these horses.

Kind of just like college football players.

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Seriously dhab, you spend too much of your time posting stuff here when you should be getting your own credit for your intelligent, witty and incisive commentary.

Start your own blog, and I promise I will visit every once in a while.  Think about it...

So take that.

by Kahuna on Jan 29, 2007 6:51 PM CST reply actions  

Kahuna
Nice.

I couldn't disagree more with this particular incisive commentary, but doubt it's worth the time to spend in a heated web argument.

by Jason Mayer on Jan 29, 2007 7:00 PM CST reply actions  

Not that riled up...
...but equally mystified about why people were so caught up in the fate of a horse that was bred to be like a race-car -- explosively fast but ultimately fragile.  Because ultimately, it's a horse.

by DC Trojan on Jan 29, 2007 8:59 PM CST reply actions  

sorry to be self-referential
but this is a pretty good post by someone who did care, and I thought that others might find it interesting.

by DC Trojan on Jan 29, 2007 9:08 PM CST up reply actions  

thanks
Thanks for the link Trojan.  It echoes a lot of the sentiments I have regarding Barbaro, although I'm not a "horse guy" like him.  

The story may have been a little overexposed (thus, the inevitable backlash), but it was still compelling and, ultimately, tragic.  Especially after it looked like he was going to recover from the injury.

by Jason Mayer on Jan 29, 2007 10:19 PM CST up reply actions  

DV
Deadspin scooped you by about 6 months on this one.

http://tags.deadspin.com/sports/barbaro/

by Wells on Jan 30, 2007 11:21 AM CST reply actions  

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