Eliot and Hillary in Pinstripes
What baseball analogies best describe the players in this political season (which seems to be ending prematurely)? Jay Gallagher of Gannett News Service solves the mystery!
"Eliot Spitzer is to New York politics what the New York Yankees are to major-league baseball: they're both winning big, but they're taking the fun out of their races."
Hillary Clinton-The Yankees (same as Spitzer)
John Spencer-The Mets"[T]he Mets are running away with their divisional race. But baseball's National League and the New York's Republican Party are clearly the weaker organizations this year, almost sure to meet an unwelcome fate this fall."
Steve Minarik-Casey Stengel
Jeanine Pirro-Frank Thomas"[A}s the Mets manager in 1962 when the Amazins won 40 games and lost 120."
Charlie King-Kansas City Royals Sean Maloney-Tampa Bay Devil Rays"Thomas was the Mets' only respectable hitter in that dreadful year..."
"The Royals and Rays are 35 and a half games and 24 and a half games, respectively, behind in their division races."
No Derek Jeter?
-- Azi Paybarah
Frank Thomas never played for the Mets....I don't think he was even born in 1962...
Different Frank Thomas, genius.
FYI - there was baseball played prior to 1996.