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Barbaro is dead.
So how long until Barbaro’s first confirmed miracle? Katherine Drexel, John Neumann and Barbaro: Three saints from the area.
Okay, time to start chronicling the insanity.
- ESPN has taken down a joke about Barbaro from their morning “AM Jump” post. Thanks to Google, here it is: “Dead Letter Office : Barbaro has taken a turn for the worse and his physicians performed a risky procedure on the Kentucky Derby winner over the weekend. Chief surgeon Dr. Dean Richardson said that if Barbaro’s leg breaks again, ‘I think we’ll quit.’ Want to know who won’t ever quit? Barbaro’s impassioned letter-writers. Although it sounds as though they may soon have to address their letters to: ‘Barbaro c/o Horsey Heaven.’”
- Headline on KYW 1060: Barbaro, Local Sports Hero, Is Dead. Real newspapers become more and more like The Onion every day.
- Hipsters: Also big fans of Barbaro.
- If you want to find reasons to hate humanity, here’s a quick and easy way to do it.
- Anonymous Jersey Resident (this is a different person than “Anonymous Reader” and “Anonymous Metro Staffer”): “My heart DOES break for Dr. richardson, and even for the Jacksons.” Me: “Eh.” AJR: “Come on– the same vet who had to try to keep him alive all these months has to do the deed? that’s some heavy shit.” This is some Shakespearean drama here.
- Philadelphia Livejournal? Not very respectful to Barbaro.
- Seriously, if you haven’t been to the messageboard, you really need to go. “No Horse Left Behind.”
- RJ on the Barbaro message board (via IM): “‘Run free in those fields free from pain-we will meet again at the Rainbow Bridge…’ Rainbow Bridge? Okay, my theological knowledge is slim, but I’ve just gotten to the Asgard level on the Marvel Comics PS2 game and that’s what they call the road Thor takes to Earth to fight with the Avengers.”
Kentucky Derby Winner Barbaro Euthanized [Thoroughbred Times]
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As soon as I saw this on ESPN news, I wondered how long it’d take to be posted here.
Back when all this madness started (When was that? 5…6 years ago? What? Only May?), I was solidly on the “save the horse” side, but it didn’t take very long to start thinking enough already. It’s a HORSE–start throwing that money at a real problem. I do wonder, though, what all those people who post daily on Barbaro’s message board will do now that he’s gone.
I can’t stop crying. No, wait, I meant blinking. I can’t slop blinking. Good thing, too, it keeps my eyes moisturized.
While I don’t have any problems with someone trying to keep their pet alive - it is their own money, after all - what sort of gets me is that they ended up having to do what would have been done immediately in the old days (although I presume they didn’t shoot him).
To the glue factory!!?
bobby, sweet velvet nose. i know there is a reason for this, i just can’t find it right now, but i will keep on with your fights. now they’re your legacies.
hahah my community made PWD!
I’ve e-rrived!