Excellent New Yorker article:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?040920ta_talk_mcgrath

Yet another reason to hate the Yankees...

Do people still watch baseball?

As if these people really represent sports talent of the cities and areas that bear the name of their teams.

Where before teams (and I'm talking all pro sport) played for their towns, they now instead play for their corporate masters and the almighty dollar.

Yes, people still watch baseball.

True, corporate interests and the "almighty dollar" now define the game. Why is this so? The Yankees. Why is this also so in politics? The Republicans. That was one of the points of the article.

Don't be nasty about things you are clueless about.

Another strange but true is the Washington Redskins last home game before the election. If Washington wins, the party that is in the White House stays. If Washington loses, the party that is in the White House goes.

The last home game before the election is Sunday Oct. 31st against Green Bay.

Too bad it's not at "Lambert Field."

http://www.cfl.ca/

The whole thing was so absurdly improbable, that, even as the final chips fell into place, there was this weird feeling of lingering disbelief...

Was I thinking of the 2000 election or last night's game?

So far so good. Fantastic, in fact. Let's hope the Democrats/Red Sox vs. Republicans/Yankees analogy mentioned in the Nyer article holds true for the 2004 election.

Let's not.

Try tarot card reading or using a magic 8 ball for more fun..

Idiot.

Oops. "Idiot" isn't the best word to use this year to dismiss the Red Sox vibrations and their obvious relevance to the election.

http://redsox.bostonherald.com/redSox/view.bg?articleid=48346

"When you have idiots on the team, like Kevin and myself, we're kind of like hang-loose, happy-go-lucky kind of guys. We weren't panicking at all,'' Damon said.

More scientific data:
"George W. Bush" + "idiot" = 64,200 Google matches
"John Kerry" + "idiot" = 68,400 Google matches