Comments on: When Politics and Baseball Collide

By: joedee1969

joedee1969 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:22:27 +0000

How about when the truth and a lie collide? This film is amazing:

http://americaspeaksink.com/2009/10/charlie-crist-and-the-film-outrage/

By: This Is Why New York Is A Blue State « Around The Sphere

This Is Why New York Is A Blue State « Around The Sphere — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:00:11 +0000

[...] David Frum at New Majority: All of that changed when my son Nathaniel at age six discovered baseball, and the New York Yankees came into our lives. “Why the Yankees?” is a question to which Nat has never offered a very satisfactory answer. He lived in New York for all of four months, through which entire time he could not walk, let alone handle a remote control. [...]

By: Willems

Willems — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:22:53 +0000

It’s a bit of a mystery where we all get our distinctive abilities and obsessions. Some are inherited and some just … appear.

By: Moderate

Moderate — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:43:52 +0000

From 1936-2000, the final Washington Redskins game prior to the presidential election exactly predicted the election outcome. If the Redskins lost, the incumbent party also lost the White House.

Having accurately predicted 15 consecutive elections, surely there was something to this!

{2004 broke the pattern. The Redskins lost and Bush was re-elected. A trend is a trend, until it isn’t.}

By: When Politics and Baseball Collide « News

When Politics and Baseball Collide « News — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:27:21 +0000

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By: balconesfault

balconesfault — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:33:59 +0000

That stunt abrogating contracts with executives of financial companies alone should knock him down five points.

You think? More likely, the “stunt” will only cost him popularity among people who are already inclined to dislike Obama, and will convince people who have been wondering “what will Obama do to fight for us” that the administration is actually making good on some of what they campaigned for – a change in how government does business.