Assessing the Candidates' Baseball Bonafides

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Assessing the Candidates' Baseball Bonafides
ccalcaterra ccalcaterra posted 8/22/2007 from shysterball.blogspot.com [flag]
There are seventeen candidates for president. At some point, all of them will claim to be huge baseball fans in order to pander for votes. Which ones are true fans, and which ones are pretenders? Shysterball provides this handy guide to help you sniff out the baloney. [link]

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  • Jason Jason
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    We apparently could have used this kind of baseball-centric analysis back in 2000 ...
    Posted 8/22/2007 [reply] [flag]
    • ccalcaterra ccalcaterra
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      Jason -- as I wrote this, I was wondering how Bush would have fit into it.  If I included him here it may not have been pretty given (a) the Sosa trade; (b) presiding over the team that looks like it was ground zero for steroid use in the 90s; and (c) trading Sosa.

      You can't imagine how hard it was to keep my own politics out of this thing . . .

      Posted 8/22/2007 [reply] [flag]
  • Erin Erin
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    Great stuff. And how did I not see the Hillary cleavage connection to Barry Bonds before?
    Posted 8/22/2007 [reply] [flag]

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Shysterball: Calcaterra: The Candidates’ Baseball Bonafides
Published 8/22/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Shysterball: Calcaterra: The Candidates ...

Baseball Today: Friday, August 24
Published 8/24/2007 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... THE REAL ISSUES: The blog ShysterBall researches the favorite baseball team of the presidential candidates. Sox fans include Mitt Romney, Christopher Dodd and, in a strange way, Bill Richardson, who claims to be both a Sox and Yankee fan (the logic of which, ShysterBall points out, ''Abraham Lincoln identified the flaw with . . . 149 years ago''). Rudy Guiliani and, perhaps, Hillary Rodham Clinton are Yankee fans. ...