Len-- I love that you keep quoting a study that took place during the Bush administration (the other Bush), one that the person who conducted it said was flawed, one that took place back back when TG still sold handwritten sheets.
1-- Even if one disregarded the opinion of the guy who did the study and accepted the results, there is no reason to believe that the performance level of your operation, mine, and the others has stayed constant over 15 years-- that almost never happens in any field of endeavor.
2-- Track surfaces and their characteristics have changed dramatically over that time, and you guys have not changed with them.
I have a plane to catch, so I can\'t deal with the rest of that stuff in detail right now. But it is what it always is from you and the posters on your board-- sheer terror at the idea of getting into a situation where results can be compared directly. That\'s why you have ducked a dozen or so challenges from me to a handicapping contest, including a public one in front of 400 people at the Expo. You uttered not a peep in response.
One more thing-- as you well know, we have many times the number of on-line customers you do. Since the study will be conducted on-line, where most of your customers won\'t see it, that means, as a practical matter, I have more to lose and less to gain than you. Which in turn gives an indication of the confidence each of us has in our product.