﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>ATOM - Ernie Munick Blog Feed</title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com" /><updated>2013-05-19T10:04:46Z</updated><author><name>Belmont Stakes</name></author><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Twice, I've Been Chased by Mr. Peanut]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2013/5/16/twice,-ive-been-chased-by-mr.-peanut/" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2013-05-17T04:18:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Twice, I've been chased by Mr. Peanut: first at the 1976 US Open Women's Singles Finals, and second, after the 1982 Preakness. You haven't quite lived until you've been hunted by an eight-foot peanut with white fisted gloves and top hat. This was in Forest Hills at the old stadium. I aged a year that day, my voice changed. But the Preakness was worse. ]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[A Belmont Crossword]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2012/6/2/a-belmont-crossword/" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2012-06-02T21:42:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Here come the cheaters, one by one, clicking "Hint" or "Solve" until my puzzle is done. Call me paranoid but I anticipate a 93% cheating rate. Even I cheated on the puzzle, and I wrote the clues. Barry Manilow wrote the songs and, you know what, I don't trust him, either.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[No Exclamation Points for "Another" 15 Days]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2012/5/25/no-exclamation-points-for-another-15-days/" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2012-05-25T22:12:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Just minutes ago I learned that I am the only winner of the $188 million Mega Millions lottery jackpot.

It's official: Charlize Theron and I are engaged.

Are you ready for this? My dog…he could talk.

Do you notice anything missing at the end of the above sentences?

I am off exclamation points, done - until I'll Have Another crosses the finish line in front on June 9. This means I will not, for the next 15 days, not even once...]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Preakness Picks with the Bartender's Trick]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2012/5/17/preakness-picks-with-the-bartenders-trick/" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2012-05-18T04:29:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The melody of Maryland, My Maryland was borrowed from a German folk song called O Tannenbaum, whose melody was borrowed from Charles M. Schulz’s O Christmas Tree, whose melody was borrowed from the biblical O Finkelstein, whose melody, of course, was borrowed from O Monzonite, that neanderthalic ditty about mist and stones. I asked the Library of Congress if I could borrow the rarest of recordings, and, WOW, its similarity to Maryland, My Maryland...]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[From Worst to First: Derby Picks 2012]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2012/5/3/from-worst-to-first-derby-picks-2012/" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2012-05-04T04:21:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[With the Arc de Triomphe, Grand National, Snake River Canyon and the recently discovered Super Earth dubbed GJ 1214b by NASA as his immediate goals, Trinniberg (20) is the first toss. A red and yellow aircar will be hovering for him about the quarter-pole, and with aviator goggles and a smart trailing scarf he shall Jetson the leaders through the world's most famous stretch.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Wahhhh Too Much Time Between Races Wahhh]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2011/6/10/wahhhh-too-much-time-between-races-wahhh/" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2011-06-10T22:45:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[It's the most important day of the year for New York racing, with the largest crowd spread across the mother of all racetracks, the beauty, the grandeur blah blah blah here's the problem, according to newbies and infrequent players:]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Drosselmeyer in 2:31]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2011/6/3/drosselmeyer-in-231/" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2011-06-03T23:29:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The wheels of the track ambulance gave the railbirds a full-body mud treatment. Here's the story in the time it took Drosselmeyer to capture the 2010 Belmont Stakes. ]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Preakness Eve and I've Quit Writing]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2011/5/20/preakness-eve-and-ive-quit-writing/" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2011-05-20T21:33:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[I hate writing. I'd rather do laundry or go clothes shopping or even parlay the dentist into the proctologist. You think I'm kidding. Writing to me implies severe responsibility; writing means you cannot be hackneyed or ungrammatical. ]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Baltimoreans]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2011/5/12/baltimoreans/" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2011-05-12T16:58:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Click to view image]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[The BSE (Best System Ever)]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2011/5/5/the-bse-best-system-ever/" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2011-05-05T23:53:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[This was the system to end all systems. When this system walked into the saloon, the other systems ducked for cover. Even after the race was over, the other systems cowered under the tables and behind the bar, dead silence, quivering.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Way Way Woo Woo? What Think You?]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2011/4/28/way-way-woo-woo-what-think-you/" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2011-04-28T20:34:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[I debated whether to show you this. I run the risk of coming off kooky and self-indulgent. But neither is new to me, kookiness or self-indulgence. It can't be coincidental that  that my longest relationship was with a girl named Mimi. Every day I found myself saying, "Mimi, I...Mimi, I."  Me me I. ]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[These Five were BIG Money]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2010/6/4/these-five-were-big-money/" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2010-06-05T03:20:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[[Video] These Five were BIG Money]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Charted Territories: My 38 Belmonts]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2010/5/28/charted-territories-my-38-belmonts/" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2010-05-28T20:28:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Charted Territories: My 38 Belmonts]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA['Tis the Season, Woody Stephens]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2010/5/21/tis-the-season,-woody-stephens/" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2010-05-21T21:02:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The painting hangs just inside the clubhouse entrance, four or five lengths to the left. What I usually do is stand within comfortable viewing distance and spend about a minute recalling each event in The Streak. Five minutes in all. Five minutes straight.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[I Guarantee...]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2010/5/14/i-guarantee.../" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2010-05-14T17:35:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA["I cry because I am not less than a man but because I am a man."  NFL legend Bruce Smith, from his Hall of Fame speech.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[A Heads Up to the Fellas]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2010/5/6/a-heads-up-to-the-fellas/" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2010-05-06T22:28:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Here's a heads up to all you fellas out there who sometimes forget the lady who conceived you, weaned you, raised you, glad to, mind you, achoo, bless you, Zyrtec, thank you - where was I - Sunday is Mother's Day.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[The Worst Kentucky Derby Handicapper in History]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2010/4/29/the-worst-kentucky-derby-handicapper-in-history/" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2010-04-29T16:18:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[I had my own tent in the sideshow as The Worst Kentucky Derby Handicapper in History. Half man, half Cheerio…Ernio. They called me Ernio.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html"><![CDATA[Eskendereya Faces the Immortal Court]]></title><link href="http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2010/4/21/eskendereya-faces-the-immortal-court/" /><id>urn:uuid:c5c1e00d-2e36-4aff-bdea-225f89c2ac10</id><updated>2010-04-21T22:06:00Z</updated><summary type="html"><![CDATA[They are summoned from their vast adjoining paddocks, and it doesn't take long for a Triple Crown winner to get to where he needs to go. This is inconsequential and even a wee bit childish but Seattle Slew gets there first.]]></summary></entry></feed>