@skeeter
If it turns out that way, I'm going to exit stage left re: politics, and so is my husband. It will just be a game to which there's no point.
@CatherineofAragon Why watching baseball is better (and less hazardous to the nation's health) than watching politics:
* Baseball has the National League and the American League. Politics has the Republicans and the Democrats.
* Baseball worst commissioner was less dangerous than America's worst president.
* You can't negotiate wins or losses.
* You can't put the outcome of the World Series to a two-thirds majority.
* The worst major league umpire is less hazardous to a baseball game than the least constitutionally-inclined judge.
* An umpire's bad ruling can be overturned on the spot with instant replay. Good luck overturning a judge's bad ruling
as fast as a year.
* The ugliest baseball uniform is more attractive than the stiffest political blue suit.
* Last year's World Series featured the Chicago Cubs vs. the Cleveland Indians, right down to the wire. Last year's presidential
election featured Donaldus Minimus versus Hilarious Rodent Clinton, right down to the wire.
* Nobody wanted to wrap the wire around the necks of either the Cubs or the Indians.
* The worst manager in baseball isn't half the screwup that Speakers of the House and Senate President Pro Tems usually are.
* Baseball scandals by and large tend to come a decade apart. Political scandals by and large tend to come three days apart.
* Casey Stengel's triple-talking "Stengelese" merely amused while amplifying a subtle mind. A politician's triple talk isn't that
amusing and amplifies brain damage.
* Yogi Berra:
It ain't over until it's over. Politician:
It ain't over until you've paid for it.* When baseball owners overspend, misspend, or malspend, at least they're spending their own money.
* A baseball player selling his services to the highest bidder doesn't hurt anyone---except maybe the guys he sent home for
an early winter vacation by hitting the pennant-winning bomb or pitching the pennant-winning wins. If you have to ask
what a politician selling his or her services to the highest bidder is, you probably think K Street was Big Bird's favourite
Sesame Street haunt.
. . . among others . . .
