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October 26, 2004
Kerry In Five?
Spotted at the intersection of E. Poplar and W. Main Street in Carrboro:
A nice spin on the Kerry/Red Sox confluence....because those of us in the reality-based community don't believe in curses anyway, right?
I was initially amused by the idea of the Houston Astros winning the NL pennant and turning this year's World Series into a proxy Bush/Kerry battle...but that would have received way more media hype than even the Red Sox/Kerry thing is getting. So in retrospect, I'm glad it didn't happen. Plus, we already had that Carolina/New England Super Bowl while Edwards and Kerry were duking it out as Democratic primary foes.
Just for kicks, some more sports/politics trivia:
Q: Before 2004, when was the last (election) year that a state simultaneously had one of its baseball teams in the World Series and one of its residents as the presidential nominee of a major political party?
A: Only twenty years ago in 1984, when Reagan was running for re-election against Walter Mondale while the San Diego Padres were going up against the far superior Detroit Tigers in the World Series. Unfortunately, the Upper-Midwest-slaughters-Southern-California outcome of the World Series was reversed 180 degrees for the 1984 presidential election. The last time a state had a winning World Series team and a winning nominee? Again, the state was California - in 1972 with Nixon and the Oakland A's. This is about to change, however.
Posted by Tim at October 26, 2004 05:06 PM
Comments
If the Series has three rain delays and were to go seven games, the final would be played in Fenway on election night, less than a mile from Kerry's extravaganza in front of the Boston Public Library. Fortunately I think the Charles would keep the fires from reaching my house, but you can never be sure.
Posted by: Nate at October 27, 2004 03:19 PM
i had the year right, but for some reason I thought it was the Hershiser-fueled Dodgers. Guess that was '88.
Johnny Damon had a bizarre quote in the Globe this morning about how he hopes we don't see a spike in the ambulance calls in the next week (i think this may have been misread as a knock on Boston's finest in response to last week's tragic death). I personally know quite a few elderly people who've been quoted over the years as saying that they'd like to live just long enough to see what may actually be a reality this time tomorrow (chills just writing that). Add to that the enormous relief the nation (lower-case 'n'; not the R.S. Nation) will feel as it wakes up from this awful collective nightmare of the past 4 years, and it all may be too much to take. There just may be a drastic population drop in the blue, blue Bay State in early November.
Posted by: jesse at October 27, 2004 04:56 PM