OK. I finally think I'm back to normal. It took a while and I still get the shakes....
Was having a conversation with Peter Chapman (a refugee from Red Sox nation) today about the differing fortunes of Dusty and Grady Little.
Consider this - they were both five outs from the World Series. They both blew it, basically, by leaving their star pitcher in the game too long.
The difference is that Little was almost fired on his way to the team bus, whereas Dusty virtually has the key to the city of Chicago.
(OK, the other difference is that the Red Sox were legitimate World Championship contenders this year, while the Cubs overachieved in what was essentially a rebuilding year....)
Chapman and I agreed that if the two teams had, in fact, met in the Series; the fans would have conspired to somehow share the championship - in something like the endless ballgame in WP Kinsella's "Iowa Baseball Conspiracy".
Who knows?
Anyway - back in the real world... a new book by USA Today's Walter Shapiro sounds like a nice read.
It's called "One-Car Caravan: On the Road with the 2004 Democrats Before America Tunes In". Here's an extract.
Kate O'Connor, the governor's only traveling aide, handed the folded, envelope-sized ''Dean for America'' flier to the candidate for inspection. Dean scrutinized it with the intensity of a president reading a memorandum from his national security adviser. After noting several typos, the trim, buttoned-down Dean pointed to a photograph of himself on the inside flap and complained, ''This picture makes me look like Dick Cheney. Like I have Bell's palsy.''
Was having a conversation with Peter Chapman (a refugee from Red Sox nation) today about the differing fortunes of Dusty and Grady Little.
Consider this - they were both five outs from the World Series. They both blew it, basically, by leaving their star pitcher in the game too long.
The difference is that Little was almost fired on his way to the team bus, whereas Dusty virtually has the key to the city of Chicago.
(OK, the other difference is that the Red Sox were legitimate World Championship contenders this year, while the Cubs overachieved in what was essentially a rebuilding year....)
Chapman and I agreed that if the two teams had, in fact, met in the Series; the fans would have conspired to somehow share the championship - in something like the endless ballgame in WP Kinsella's "Iowa Baseball Conspiracy".
Who knows?
Anyway - back in the real world... a new book by USA Today's Walter Shapiro sounds like a nice read.
It's called "One-Car Caravan: On the Road with the 2004 Democrats Before America Tunes In". Here's an extract.
Kate O'Connor, the governor's only traveling aide, handed the folded, envelope-sized ''Dean for America'' flier to the candidate for inspection. Dean scrutinized it with the intensity of a president reading a memorandum from his national security adviser. After noting several typos, the trim, buttoned-down Dean pointed to a photograph of himself on the inside flap and complained, ''This picture makes me look like Dick Cheney. Like I have Bell's palsy.''
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