Ameritocracy

Let’s go [insert local team name here]!!!!

We love politics. And we love baseball. And we love the absurdity of political campaigns.

So we couldn’t help but feature this quote on the homepage this afternoon.

Seemingly out of angles of attack, McCain appears to have attempted a Hail Mary play (<—- see what I did there?) tapping into the deepest fear of the American electorate: that the man they are electing president does not, in fact, support their favored sports team as he claims to.

Barack Obama throwing out the first pitch for his ACTUAL favorite team, the Chicago White Sox, who as recently as 100 years ago were involved in a massive scoring-fraud scandal.

This would be a tenuous argument anyway, considering the Rays (for whom McCain suggests Obama is only pretending to root, having expressed his goodwill toward the Phillies as well) have only had fans for the last 3 or 4 weeks, when Tampa Bay residents were informed a) they have a major league baseball team and b) that major league baseball team was headed for the playoffs (and now the World Series).  Quickly, TB residents learned how to say things like “Longoria”, “sacrifice fly”, “bullpen”, and “Carl Crawford”, who, it turns out had been playing baseball in the Tampa Bay area for some time, patiently awaiting the day the locals would express curiosity over his status as an “All-Star”.

Alas, just ths past July, McCain decided a story he wrote about in his autobiography concerned the Pittsburgh Steelers (possibly due to him having been speaking to the press in Pittsburgh) and not the Green Bay Packers, despite evidence (flimsy stuff, like him having said so in writing) to the contrary.