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So … if the Democratic primary was a baseball game between, say, the Yankees and the White Sox, it would look something like this:

Yankees jump out to a large first inning lead, thanks to absentee balloting, four years of momentum and their already-famous manager. Call it 6-0, Yanks, after one.

The Sox play some scrappy ball and chip away with a run in their side of the first and another in the second before both starters find their groove. 6-2, Yankees.

After a couple of scoreless frames pass before the Sox bang out a leadoff double and follow it up with a moonshot of a homer (this would be Iowa and South Carolina) to cut the lead to 6-4.

Let’s say last night’s clusterfuck of a Super Tuesday was the equivalent of a suicide squeeze for the Sox in the bottom of the sixth, since Obama seems to have won more delegates when all is said and done. So it’s 6-5, Yankees heading for the seventh inning.

The Sox have the hotter bats, at the moment (polls show Obama had been making steady gains in all the states Clinton won last night and he’s spent more time in the states that are still up for grabs) and they also appear to have a much deeper bullpen to dip into for the final stretch run.

Would you put money on the Yankees holding onto a one-run lead in crunch time against hot bats and a deep bullpen?

In other news, I’m going to start posting a few fun links every morning that I’m stuck on my computer at work (Sunday-Thursday, most weeks). Since I probably read the equivalent of four or five papers every morning through various websites that provide links, commentary, data and other such nonsense, I figured I’d find an excuse to pass along good reads, inane examples of media hyperbole/hypocrisy and ever-so-sweet nuggets of schadenfreude.

As soon as I figure out a clever name to post them under, I will give them their own post. For now, enjoy:

• “For the love of God, for pity’s sake, somebody shoot this team. Put it down, out if its misery. And if Mats Sundin isn’t saying today, where do I sign, or un-sign, then he’s a sadomasochist, perhaps a fool.” Rosie DiManno — as fair, balanced and undereactionary as ever. This piece, by the way, manages to combine both tasty schadenfreude and media hyperbole. Still, the adolescent boy in me points, giggles and chants “Golf Leafs, Golf!”
• Anytime Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Sean hannity are uniting behind something — even if it is as innocuous as their opinion on Tim Hortons doughnut of the month — I am hauling ass in the other direction. Has unity ever been so divisive? (Newshounds, by the way, is an awesome site for people like me who will never watch Fox but still want  evidence of just how evil they are).
• A quick and dirty look at how the potential presidents swing on technology issues. Except, of course, for the ones who refused to answer or dodged the question. Probably because they believe they ‘don’t have to answer any question that comes from that series of tubes that makes up the internets.’

In closing, anybody who tells you that this Democratic primary is coming down to anything other than the last day of the convention this fall is an idiot. I wonder what a real convention will be like? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one where the leader wasn’t all but acclaimed before it started.