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Big surprise, there won't be a Triple Crown winner again this year, after Rachel Alexandra won last week's Preakness Stakes at Pimlico. And I couldn't be happier, because horse racing is dumb. There hasn't been a Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978. Know what was happening in 1978? Serial killer Ted Bundy was captured in Florida and 909 people drank the tainted Kool-Aid in the Jonestown mass suicide...pretty interesting year.

Sorry, I got a bit morbid on you there. Back to the original point...horse racing is overrated, and casual sports fans care about it for all of about five minutes every spring.

If the Kentucky Derby winner doesn't follow up with a win at The Preakness Stakes, it's lights out for horse racing for 99.99% of the population. I'm sure I care if that redneck jockey Calvin Borel gets his own personal Triple Crown, if Rachel Alexandra runs in the Belmont in a few weeks. Borel makes Junkies intern Matt Valdez from Pasadena, MD, look like a Rhodes Scholar, and he's not even graduating with a 3.0 from Garyland, aka The University of Maryland.

And don't even get me started on the debacle that was The Preakness 2009. Pretty smart decision to throw a wet blanket on Maryland's biggest sporting event by banning alcohol from being brought in from the outside. Attendance only plummeted from 112,000+ in 2008, to barely 71,000 in 2009. From the pictures of the event, it looked like a dirty bomb had been detonated at the infield. I'm all about the double bill of Buckcherry and ZZ Top, but the suits that run Pimlico have to rethink the beer policy for 2010. Don't try to sanitize the Preakness infield; it's not a family event - it's drunkenness and debauchery in its purest form.

Last but not least, let's not spare Maryland Governor Martin O' Malley; personally, I'm a much bigger fan of Robert "Gov for Life" Ehrlich, since he never would have pulled off this boneheaded move. As Governor O' Malley is handing the Woodlawn Vase to the owners of Rachel Alexandra, he calls it "the most prestigious trophy in all of sports." What? I guess he's never heard of the Stanley Cup, the Heisman Trophy, or the Lombardi Trophy...