Late Innings: Democrats, don those rally caps!

[johnfunk]

It's late in the game and, according to a Washington Post poll, the score is tied (50% want Bush, 50% want the Democratic challenger).

In baseball, when it gets down to the late innings in a tie game, any smart manager (read: NOT Grady Little) plays for the winning run. Even if you have some of the most vaunted power hitters in the game, you still play "small ball." That is, you try to manufacture a run, by drawing a walk or getting hit by a pitch (accidentally on purpose stepping into an inside curveball), then stealing a base, playing hit and run, and taking an extra base against a weak-throwing outfielder.

Once the go-ahead run is on the scoreboard, you go to your bullpen for the closer to nail down the victory.

The Democratic Party currently has two men on first base (Howard Dean, Wesley Clark). Neither seems willing to concede the base to the other but they would make a pretty formidable team, if they played together.

Meanwhile, the Republicans have a candidate who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.It's late in the game and, according to a Washington Post poll, the score is tied (50% want Bush, 50% want the Democratic challenger).

More from the Hartford Advocate's Alan Bisbort in APJ at http://americanpolitics.com/20031010Bisbort.html. And check out the Hartford Advocate while you're at it!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. You should manage the Red Sox next year...

:-)