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The race is still on between Vinny Blue and Vinny Red to win the job of being the new spokesperson for the New York New York Casino. That race was a literal race this afternoon in the middle of the casino floor, but it was a race on tricycles. Yep, tricycles. The rule was they had to keep their butt on the thing, which appeared to be no easy task.

There were three competitions left to wind up the spokesperson competition and they all took place this afternoon at the casino. First it was the trike race, then the knowledge about New York New York Casino and it wrapped up with seeing which Vinny could get the most people to ride the roller coaster.

I hung around a while to watch the tricycle race.

They started by doing some stretches and general mugging for the onlookers. A crowd started to gather once they were sitting on their tiny bikes. The rules were read to them and then they were off…. slowly, but they were off all the same.

My vote was leaning towards Vinny Red. I don’t know why really, maybe because I see him as more of a New Yorker. Having only been to New York once, I feel I am a very good judge of who is more “New York.” Okay, I was only in Flatbush, never made it to Brooklyn, but whatever. I like Vinny Red.

When I met him this afternoon, I told a couple of the New York New York suits that I was voting for Vinny Red in front of him. “He follows me on twitter,” I said. If someone follows me on twitter, then they should get my vote, you know?

Vinny Red, of course, overhead this and exclaimed, “Is it YOU?” He was being awfully nice about not remembering my name, so that pretty much cemented it for me. He took my hand and cradled it in his and sort of cupped it with his left hand as we talked. What a gentleman. If I wasn’t a foot taller than him, maybe I’d give his wife a run for her money.

So the race was on and they were peddling as fast as they could while actually staying on the little bike. Around and around the center bar they went while the crowd cheered. I don’t know what happened to Vinny Red. There was some sort of commotion on the other side of the bar during round two. I think he might have crashed and burned.

Vinny Blue was declared the winner. Then they both fell down and lay there with their red bikes on top of them, for a little rest. They weren’t given much in the way of rest because it was time to prop them back up on their bikes to be grilled on their knowledge of the New York New York Casino.

“What was the name of the band playing at Fine Nine Irishman during the last competition?” Huh? What? The crowd even groaned. That was too hard! Most of the questions weren’t too terribly hard. They were questions any employee could probably answer, but each stumbled on them here and there. When one of the Vinnys had the answer he honked his horn on his bike and was allowed to answer. Vinny Blue was honking in a lot more than Vinny Red, I’m afraid. I think he was the one who took that competition too.

I needed to move along so I couldn’t hang around to see how many people they got to ride the roller coaster at New York New York Casino. I’m guessing they got a bunch. Maybe one of the Vinnys will pop in here and tell us how it all turned out in the end.

The posters around the casino said that Vinny Blue is ahead in this competition. One of the suits I was talking to said there have been an awful lot of votes already. People are voting with the ballet boxes on the casino floor, the Facebook page they have and also the casino’s website. Monday, November 16th, they will declare the winner. After that day, there will be an official Vinny running around the casino floor helping tourists and pointing them in the general direction of fun and great deals. I hope its Vinny Red. But, may the best Vinny for the tourists win!

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