The Vin Scully of Horseracing Retires

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🗓️ 11 August 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Today on The Gist, Tamara Cofman Wittes of the Brookings Center for Middle East Policy offers insight into the threat of ISIS in Iraq and President Obama's selective humanitarian efforts. Then, famed horserace announcer Tom Durkin takes a partial break from calling a race in Sarasota to reflect on his storied career as a horserace announcer. In honor of Durkin's retirement this month, we'll remember some of his best calls of all time and his appearance on the TV show Match Game. For the Spiel, who gets to speak about women's body image? Get The Gist by email as soon as it's available: slate.com/GistEmail Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/slate…id873667927?mt=2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.8	It's Monday, August 11th, 2014. From Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pesca. I found misused
0:38.6	gambling metaphors on the first page of the New York Times and the last page of the Wall Street
0:43.3	Journal today. Well, I don't know if it was actually the last page. It depends on how you fold
0:47.2	your paper. And since only creaky Spanish American war vets like myself actually get a paper
0:52.3	paper. Any page other than the front pages are relevant. But the journal's gambling metaphor
0:56.6	was on the back page of the B section on the sports page. And since the sports page is
1:01.0	traditionally the back page of the paper. I'm going to say it was on the front page of the
1:03.6	Times, back page of the journal. Let's go to the metaphor all in. Story by Kevin Clark was about
1:09.0	how the Baltimore Ravens and how the Oakland Raiders also last year Seattle Seahawks were all in.
1:14.7	Everyone's talking about being all in Dennis Allen Raiders coach quote, I think you've got to push
1:20.3	the chips all in every year. Problem. All in doesn't mean using all out effort or trying your
1:27.2	utmost. It means betting everything you have. So if you lose which the Raiders probably will do,
1:33.8	you've lost everything. You've got nothing you're out of the game. I don't blame the story.
1:38.8	The story is kind of how stupid it is to use the metaphor for a football team. The story I do
1:44.0	blame and the paper I do blame is the New York Times. Their headline anyway about casino gambling
1:49.3	in New York State, Albany doubling down as casino boom fades. So doubling down in Blackjack is
1:57.4	you double your bet and you get one card and only one card. And it's a terrible analogy for what's
2:02.6	going on with casinos. For one thing, the amount of the bet that New York State is making
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