May 07 2011

The Longest 2 Minutes In Sports

If you want to you can watch Kentucky Derby coverage from 11 am ET (on Vs. where it actually started on Wednesday) until 7 pm (on NBC, where they spare you the pre-race hype until 4).

I suppose this is good thing since you can hardly be expected to follow Horse Racing unless you’re a tout or plunger in one of the few forms of gambling deemed socially acceptable (as opposed to Poker, which is not gambling at all) and 2 year olds don’t have much of a record to handicap.

Ice Cream.  Get your Tutsi Frootsie Ice Cream.

It’s really mostly an excuse to wear hats that would be rejected from a 5th Avenue Easter Parade or Royal Wedding and get tanked up on Bourbon that is best sipped with a soda chaser and not muddled up with mint.

Mint Julep

Ingredients

  • 4 cups bourbon
  • 2 bunches fresh spearmint
  • 1 cup distilled water
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • Powdered sugar

Directions

To prepare mint extract, remove about 40 small mint leaves. Wash and place in a small bowl. Cover with 3 ounces bourbon. Allow the leaves to soak for 15 minutes. Then gather the leaves in paper toweling. Thoroughly wring the mint over the bowl of whisky. Dip the bundle again and repeat the process several times.

To prepare simple syrup, mix 1 cup of granulated sugar and 1 cup of distilled water in a small saucepan. Heat to dissolve sugar. Stir constantly so the sugar does not burn. Set aside to cool.

To prepare mint julep mixture, pour 3 1/2 cups of bourbon into a large glass bowl or glass pitcher. Add 1 cup of the simple syrup to the bourbon.

Now begin adding the mint extract 1 tablespoon at a time to the julep mixture. Each batch of mint extract is different, so you must taste and smell after each tablespoon is added. You are looking for a soft mint aroma and taste-generally about 3 tablespoons. When you think it’s right, pour the whole mixture back into the empty liter bottle and refrigerate it for at least 24 hours to “marry” the flavors.

To serve the julep, fill each glass (preferably a silver mint julep cup) 1/2 full with shaved ice. Insert a spring of mint and then pack in more ice to about 1-inch over the top of the cup. Then, insert a straw that has been cut to 1-inch above the top of the cup so the nose is forced close to the mint when sipping the julep.

When frost forms on the cup, pour the refrigerated julep mixture over the ice and add a sprinkle of powdered sugar to the top of the ice. Serve immediately.

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  2. Predictably boring so far.

    And I’m wearing my Mets cap.

  3. she lost a lot of weight. Not too band on the national war song

  4. just because of the name.

    I think I’ll pay him back by rooting for Lotus just because the Green and Yellow remind me of Green Bay.

  5. will have a New York accent because his regular gig is at Sarasota.

  7. desperate to fill the time

  8. Some people have already lived through 6 and a half hours of this?

    How?

  9. The man is a gentleman and a true sportsman

  10. How pretentious.

    It’s because it’s been around for 137 years you dope.

    What a fucking moron.

  11. each one of these “hardship” cases is a millionaire.

    Underdog my ass.

  12. Costas don’t know squat.

  13. Going Galt is a necessity.

    Selfish pricks.

  14. Everything.

    It’s a celebration of Randian selfishness and the only way for you to make your way into the inner circle is to ride your Trifecta Lotto ticket.

    Sucker.

  15. Slaves.

    And we concentrate on the magnanimity of their owners.

    It’s like watching a pre-bellum buck race.

  16. No ‘Carry Trade’ for the brainless this year.

  17. My Old Kentucky Home.

  21. here they come.

  23. Watching the most interesting man in the world drink crap beer

  24. “We’ve been on the air for 2 and a half hours.  Now we approach the 2 minutes this is all about.”

    So the rest is just gas bagging, right Bob?

  28. Got in the ambulance on his own. Good sign

  29. Stars and Stripes Forever.

    In show business, particularly theater and the circus, this piece is called the Disaster March. It is traditional code signaling a life-threatening emergency. This helps theater personnel to handle events and organize the audience’s exit without panic. Circus bands never play it under any other circumstances. One example of its use was at the Hartford Circus Fire in July 1944.

  30. Mucho Macho Man for show.

    Richard is pleased.

  31. He’ll need surgery but will most likely do well

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