Tuesday, November 4, 2008

I Checked Your Local Listings


While doing your best to ignore meaningless exit polls for the next few hours, you should head over to NBA TV (which you should have for free this week) and check out as meaningful a meaningless early November hoops game as you can find: Celtics versus Rockets. It's the title-bearing Big Three versus the Yao, McGrady & Artest trio from Houston.

Oakely would*....

Vote for Barack Obama Because...

Part 1 of 44 Reasons Oakley Would Choose Obama as the 44th President
Former New York Knickerbocker, NBA Hall of Famer, former Rhodes Scholar, former U.S. Senator and one-time Presidential Candidate, Bill Bradley supports him.



Part 2 of 44 Reasons Oakley Would Choose Obama as the 44th President
While being interviewed by ESPN's Chris Berman for a segment to be aired during last night's Monday Night Football game, Obama said, when asked what he would change about sports, that:
"I think it is about time that we had playoffs in college football. You know, I am fed up with these computer rankings, and this and that and the other. Get eight teams. The top eight teams right at the end. You've got a playoff. Decide on a national champion."
This is change that I can believe in. Yes we can have a playoff!

Part 3 of 44 Reasons Oakley Would Choose Obama as the 44th President
Barack Obama has been endorsed by NJ-native and longtime bard of working-class America Bruce Springsteen,
while John McCain has been endorsed by Ted Nugent, who runs canned hunts on a ranch he owns.
In spite of his current endorsement of McCain, the Nuge once said "John McCain seem[s] to be catering to a growing segment of soulless Americans who could care less what they can do for their country, but whine louder and louder about what their country must do for them. That is both un-American and pathetic." But now they're like BFF.

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*The views of this post, and this entire blog, are not actually the views of Knickerbocker legend Charles Oakley. FYI. In fact, if Oakley has saved up enough money from his playing days then he might side with the other rich folks out there and vote Republican.

Pennsylvania Will Give Obama the White House

The Steelers and the Phillies Won Election for Dems

It's true that I haven't even voted yet. Yet. It's not even lunchtime on Election Day but the race is over. Because the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series last week and the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Washington Redskins on Monday Night Football last night. It's done and done. Obama can stop kissing babies in swing states. McCain can stop scaring babies in swing states.

You see, when a National League team, like the Phillies of the NL East, wins the World Series in an election year then the Democratic candidate wins the presidency. Or at least, this was true from 1952 to 1976. It's been a little screwy as of late, although both W "wins" were accompanied by American League wins in the Fall Classic.

And, when the Washington Redskins lose their final home game before a presidential election then the incumbent party goes on to lose the popular vote and, except in one glaring case, the election. This has held true since the Redskins arrived in DC and has accurately predicted 17 out 17 election results. The one glaring asterisk is the Kerry/Bush face off from 2004. The Skins lost the home game just before the election to the Packers, 28-14, which should have meant a Bush loss as well. With the help of some nefarious doings in Ohio and other places, Bush managed to hold onto the highest office in the land. But, he didn't win the popular vote. Kerry did. Just like the Redskins game predicted.

It's no wonder that Obama was hanging out with Steelers legends earlier in the campaign. He knew that a Pittsburgh win in Washington on Monday Night Football was the key to this whole thing.

Oakley says, "Go Vote"

Because today is Election Day

We've been talking about it for two years, dreading/anticipating it for too long. Now go vote. It'll all be over in the morning. Or, it won't. It'll be even worse. Either way, go vote for president and every other office on the ballot. Each vote does matter. Even if you think you know how your state is going to turn out. And, even if you're voting for the old guy who may have actually killed somebody in a car-wreck in 1964.

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