Mr. Werth hit a walk off home run last night extending the Nats post season play while pointing to his teammates in the dugout – See That Is What $126 Million Buys You!
Thanks but $126 million means you have to do it again tonight.
Don’t worry, if his baseball thing doesn’t work out – you can always get work with GEICO!
Lets Go Nats!
At the risk of either alienating or winning over nearly half of the registered voters out there; 47% of you to be exact 😉 I am going to give you a couple alternative ways for predicting the presidential election this year.
1) A Redskin Victory:
The myth is that if the Washington Redskins win their last home game before the election, the incumbent party stays in power. If the Redskins lose, the challenging party takes the White House.
The Redskins game has correctly predicted 17 of the last 18 presidential elections. They were wrong in 2004, when the ‘Skins lost to the Green Bay Packers, but incumbent President George W. Bush held onto the White House, beating Democratic rival John Kerry the week after the game.
This year, the Redskins will face the Carolina Panthers at home on Nov. 4, the Sunday before the election.
2) World Series:
Which league wins the World Series has long been seen as an indicator of which party makes it to the White House — though the record suggests baseball is not be a perfect predictor of a presidential election outcome. The myth has an imperfect record, correctly predicting 16 elections since 1920 and getting it wrong seven times.
Legend has it, that if an American League baseball team wins the World Series, a Republican will win the White House. If a National League team wins, Democrats will take the top spot.
In 2004, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., the Democratic presidential candidate, dismissed the myth and rooted for the Boston Red Sox, with his campaign claiming it was “a new century” and a “fresh start.”
The Red Sox won but, true to legend, Kerry lost.
Will President Obama, the former senator from Illinois, make the same mistake? He has predicted his hometown Chicago White Sox, vying to make the playoffs in the American League, would take the trophy this year. But if the American Leaguers win, legend has it Obama, the Democrat, will lose.
So, who do you think will win the Presidential Election?
See some other ways to predict the election here.
This weekend we have:
A Rally for Fear which will occupy approximately 30,000 people and 3 hours of our time.
A Rally for Sanity which will will probably produce the same results as the Fear Rally.
A Marine Corp Marathon which will showcase about another 30,000 people running for another 3 hours.
I don’t want to even mention the nut who happens to be running around with a loaded rifle randomly shooting at military and government buildings and structures.
Halloween which will produce untold amounts of sugar and alcohol highs in kids of all ages.
About 50 or so televised college football games which alone equals more minutes of football than minutes in any given weekend.
A dozen televised NFL games.
A World Series.
Fourteen Hockey Games.
Need I say more? . . .
Yes, I know the original Washington Senators became the Minnesota Twins. But I’m not quite that old (yet) and the Washington Senators I remember are the ones who became the Texas Rangers.
I’m so glad the Damn Yankees lost. (That is my dad’s old Brooklyn Dodger Fan gene coming through)
Well, the two games of this past week had to have been the Vikings Packers game;
And ; The final World Series Game.
So, in tribute to both, courtesy of the Stupid Sports Blog, I present the following…
The Vikings and Packers game had 39 Million Viewers.
Here is the breakdown of the demographics…
19 million — Packers fans
500,000 — Vikings fans
2 million — Guys in Wranglers
300,000 — Gay guys in Wranglers
2 million — Guys in Wranglers who won’t admit they’re gay (overlap group of original Wranglers group)
6 million — People who were hoping Favre would snap a bone or tear a tendon
4 million — People who own Adrian Peterson in fantasy leagues, who were once again disappointed by Favre’s short-yardage TDs
150 — People rooting for Favre who aren’t Vikings fans
150 — People who own Favre in fantasy leagues and their starter on a bye (overlap group)
900,700 — Gunslingers
1 — Cyndi Lauper
1 — Mary Jensen
1 — Peter King
7 million — Lazy people who couldn’t find their remote
A Tribute Song to the World Champs –
Remix BNL “IF I HAD 2 BILLION DOLLARS”…
If I had 2 billion dollars
(If I had 2 billion dollars)
I’d buy you a house
(I would buy you a house)
If I had 2 billion dollars
(If I had 2 billion dollars)
I’d buy you players for your house
(Maybe a nice starting pitcher or first baseman)
And if I had 2 billion dollars
(If I had 2 billion dollars)
Well, I’d buy you a bullpen
(A nice reliant bridge to Mo)
If I had 2 billion dollars I’d buy your title
If I had 2 billion dollars
I’d build $5,000 seats in our yard
If I had 2 billion dollars
You could take out a loan, it wouldn’t be that hard
If I had 2 billion dollars
Maybe we could put like a little tiny monument park in there somewhere
You know, we could just go up there and hang out
Like hang out with the ghosts and stuff
There would be fat guys in zubaz pants already there for us
Wearing jersey T-shirts with names on the back
They have jerseys with names on the back but the uniforms don’t?
Well, can you blame ’em
Uh, yeah
If I had 2 billion dollars
(If I had 2 billion dollars)
Well, I’d buy you Carl Pavano
(But we’d DL him for three years because that’s cruel)
And if I had 2 billion dollars
(If I had 2 billion dollars)
Well, I’d buy you an exotic vet
(Yep, like The Rocket or Abreu)
And if I had 2 billion dollars
(If I had 2 billion dollars)
Well, I’d buy you Gary Sheffield’s remains
(Ooh, all them crazy drug-riddled bones)
And If I had 2 million dollars I’d buy your title
If I had 2 billion dollars
We wouldn’t have to worry about scouting
If I had 2 billion dollars
Now, we’d pay A.J. Burnett a whole lot more
If I had 2 billion dollars
We wouldn’t have a consistent winner
But we would have just one winner
Of course we would, it’s just simple probability
And buy really expensive middle relievers
That’s right, all the fanciest relie….Paul Quantrill!
Mmmmmm, Mmmm-Hmmm
If I had 2 billion dollars
(If I had 2 billion dollars)
Well, I’d buy you a Moose
(But not a real moose, that’s cruel)
And if I had 2 billion dollars
(If I had 2 billion dollars)
Well, I’d buy you a mercenary
(A Giambi or a Mondesi)
If I had 2 billion dollars
(If I had 2 billion dollars)
Well, I’d buy you some steroids
(Haven’t you always wanted some steroids?)
If I had 2 billion dollars
I’d buy your title
If I had 2 billion dollars, If I had 2 billion dollars
If I had 2 billion dollars, If I had 2 billion dollars
If I had 2 billion dollars
I’d be champs
Fumbled Returns 