Horseplay, Part Deux

 It's remarkable how often people stuck down a hole have to be told to stop digging.

And so the best advice White-Hair Guy (Bob Baffert) could get from his PR flacks right now would be "Bob, stop talking." This is because the more he talks, the weirder and more contemptible he gets.

The latest from Babbling Bob is straight from the Donald John Trump Rich Guy Caught Red-Handed Playbook: Act the aggrieved party being brought down by shadowy forces who are just jealous of your success. Accountability? That's for the little people.

Thus, right on cue, Baffert trotted out the playbook-approved "cancel culture" excuse for his Kentucky Derby-winning horse showing red in a post-race drug test. He's utterly blameless in all this, you see; Medina Spirit flunked the drug test because he'd eaten some hay a groom who'd taken some cough medicine whizzed on.

No, really. That's his story and he's stickin' to it.

Of course, this doesn't explain how four of his other horses have dinged the Drug Meter in the last year. Perhaps that was "cancel culture," too. Or perhaps he just employs a lot of grooms with chest colds and tiny bladders.

"We live in a different world now," Baffert complained to (surprise, surprise) Fox News. "This America is different."

I doubt he meant it this way, but if by "different" he's saying even celebrity trainers are now being held accountable for their actions, he's absolutely right.

Sucks for him.