﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--RSS generated by Belmont Stakes at Tue, 21 May 2013 21:21:43 GMT--><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"><channel><title>RSS - Ernie Munick Blog Feed</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com</link><description>RSS Ernie Munick Blog Feed</description><copyright /><generator>Belmont Stakes</generator><item><title>Twice, I've Been Chased by Mr. Peanut</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2013/5/16/twice,-ive-been-chased-by-mr.-peanut/</link><description><![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. ]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 04:18:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Belmont Crossword</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2012/6/2/a-belmont-crossword/</link><description><![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.]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 21:42:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>No Exclamation Points for "Another" 15 Days</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2012/5/25/no-exclamation-points-for-another-15-days/</link><description><![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...]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 22:12:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Preakness Picks with the Bartender's Trick</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2012/5/17/preakness-picks-with-the-bartenders-trick/</link><description><![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...]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 04:29:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>From Worst to First: Derby Picks 2012</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2012/5/3/from-worst-to-first-derby-picks-2012/</link><description><![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.]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 04:21:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Wahhhh Too Much Time Between Races Wahhh</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2011/6/10/wahhhh-too-much-time-between-races-wahhh/</link><description><![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:]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:45:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Drosselmeyer in 2:31</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2011/6/3/drosselmeyer-in-231/</link><description><![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. ]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:29:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Preakness Eve and I've Quit Writing</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2011/5/20/preakness-eve-and-ive-quit-writing/</link><description><![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. ]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 21:33:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Baltimoreans</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2011/5/12/baltimoreans/</link><description><![CDATA[Click to view image]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 16:58:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The BSE (Best System Ever)</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2011/5/5/the-bse-best-system-ever/</link><description><![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.]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 23:53:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Way Way Woo Woo? What Think You?</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2011/4/28/way-way-woo-woo-what-think-you/</link><description><![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. ]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:34:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>These Five were BIG Money</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2010/6/4/these-five-were-big-money/</link><description><![CDATA[[Video] These Five were BIG Money]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:20:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Charted Territories: My 38 Belmonts</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2010/5/28/charted-territories-my-38-belmonts/</link><description><![CDATA[Charted Territories: My 38 Belmonts]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 20:28:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Tis the Season, Woody Stephens</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2010/5/21/tis-the-season,-woody-stephens/</link><description><![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.]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 21:02:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>I Guarantee...</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2010/5/14/i-guarantee.../</link><description><![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.]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 17:35:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Heads Up to the Fellas</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2010/5/6/a-heads-up-to-the-fellas/</link><description><![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.]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 22:28:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Worst Kentucky Derby Handicapper in History</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2010/4/29/the-worst-kentucky-derby-handicapper-in-history/</link><description><![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.]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:18:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Eskendereya Faces the Immortal Court</title><link>http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/ernie-munick/2010/4/21/eskendereya-faces-the-immortal-court/</link><description><![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.]]></description><dc:creator>Belmont Stakes</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:06:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>