Quick Hits – May 3

This post sponsored by Sportsbetting.com, the best place for sports betting online. Kentucky Derby So my Derby picks weren’t so great, yet again.  I focused too much on wins, and not enough on the fact that Super Saver was getting better and better with each race.  I really can’t stand Calvin Borel, though.  The overwrought emotionalism and homespun Cajun charm are just a bit too much.  I’m sure he’s a perfectly nice guy, but his public person is tailor-made for soft-focus NBC puff pieces before races.  Todd Pletcher, on the other hand, just seems like an a-hole. I can’t wait to watch Ice Box in the Preakness and/or the Belmont.  That horse was closing with a purpose at the end of the race, and if he hadn’t been boxed in and bumped for so much of the race, the final result would have been much different. Orioles What happened to the Orioles this weekend?  Four wins all season and then a 3-game sweep of the Red Sox?  Two extra-innin...