It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network.

Hello again, everybody and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the Bed Rivers Network.

We come to you on this Friday morning, the first day of May.

May is my favorite month of the year, always has been.

One of the reasons is the Derby, which is tomorrow, which is we'll get to in a minute.

But the other one is,

you wait and wait for summer. I've always been a summer person. Most people are, I think, but I have always loved summer. And May is such a harbinger thing as to come. The weather

finally starts to turn for real in the next 10 days where you know every day it's nice.

And there's a lot going on. more than that it's just about you know that summer's coming and that means all the good

things that summer has always meant you know including Saratoga which is right around the

corner again so hey anytime you're looking ahead

towards saratoga uh the belmont will be in saratoga this year again for the last time

it's a long saratoga meet and as i tell you all the time and i've told people forever and i can't

tell you how many people have come up to me in saratoga through the years as I walk through the grandstand.

And everyone's in there, you know, their picnic tables and their chairs and everything else.

And, you know, they stop and say hello.

And I can't tell you how many countless people have said to me, we took your advice.

We came up for a weekend, and now we come every year.

And it's just one of those places that no matter who you meet,

I met someone recently, and the guy said to me, my dad was in horse racing and he said I never got involved

he's a successful businessman and he said but every year I loved loved going to Saratoga

and you know it's just it's just a happy place it really It's, and it's a really special place. And like I said, uh, if you need to go away for a summer weekend, maybe playing fares are going to be a lot more expensive than your thought because of what's going on in the world. And you decide the vacation's a little steep. Well, hop in your car. You don't have to stay in Saratoga proper. They soak you for the hotel rooms. They kill you. Once the meat's open, they kill you. Okay. They triple the prices or quadruple the prices. I don't even know. You can stay along the north way. You can stay in Albany. It's only a half hour from Albany.

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