Calvin Borel smoked the Kentucky Derby field on  a 50-1 cigar, Mine That Bird, then did what any sane red-blooded American man would do after going all the way on a first date.   He dumped a sure thing in favor of a prettier cocktail waitress, Rachel Alexandra, becoming the first future dog food jockey in over a century to dump his Derby date for a prettier nag in the upcoming Preakness.

I don't have a problem with it at all, I love any sport that tosses anorexic midgets up on giant nervous horses and rockets them around a dirt track wearing lawn ornament clothes while rich people wearing funny hats drink themselves insensible on foo-foo drinks like mint juleps. 

But Borel isn't the first guy to pull a stunt like that, no matter what you read, take a look at some other guys who did the exact same thing and good, bad, or ugly, never admitted they were dumber than a tree stump to have ever even thought it; let alone acted on it.

Paul McCartney leaves the Beatles, a thoroughbred's thoroughbred of a band if ever there was one, for Wings and quite frankly if he hadn't done so the world would have never heard Silly Little Love Songs.  Nevertheless even a drooling idiot can do the math and come up with the correct answer, Beatles great, Wings suck.  The ultimate humiliation comes when Ringo Starr scores more post-Beatles top ten Billboard hits than Wings.

Derek "Turk" Sanderson, NHL pretty boy and great penalty killing center for the Bruins, wins two Stanley Cups for Beantown in 1970 & '72 and then leaves Bobby Orr and Boston behind for $2.6-million dollars to skate for the World Hockey League's Philadelphia Blazers.  Bear in mind Philly is where a fan wrapped a rubber chicken around Sanderson's neck and started a riot featuring the Bruins, sticks swinging, rushing into  the stands to save der Turk.  Sanderson went over like a lead balloon in Philly and his cup of coffee stint in the WHA lasted all of one season.

McLean Stevenson, aka Colonel Blake, leaves the hit TV series M*A*S*H during the third season to star in Hello Larry which viewers said goodbye to faster than Ex-Lax through a goose.  M*A*S*H lasted another eight seasons without Stevenson ending with the highest rated episode in TV history.  In a stunning case of dumb and dumber Gary Burghoff, aka Radar O'Reilly, pulls a McLean Stevenson in the 7th season, inflicting four-seasons of the cross-dressing Corporal Max Klinger on an unsuspecting public.

Mike Ditka trades all the Saints' 1999 draft picks and a 1st and 3rd round pick in 2000 for RB Ricky Williams.  Ditka was outsourced after the 1999 season.  $8-million dollars couldn't get Ricky to abandon his dream of smoking his way out of the NFL.  In 2004 after testing positive for marijuana Williams retired, despite repeated reinstatements Williams could never get the bong away from his face long enough to stick in the NFL.

So if Borel finishes dead last or loses by a whisker to Mine That Bird I won't be surprised, I have two words for him, Art Garfunkel...