What the Democrats and the Detroit Tigers Have In Common

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Monday October 16, 2006 · 8:47 AM PDT

2006/10/16 · 08:47

If there's anything I love more than politics, it's baseball. And, being a Detroit Tigers fan since, oh, the Kennedy administration, you'll excuse me a bit of baseball triumphalism. (BTW, I have posted the video of Ordonez' fairy tale home run over at Bless You Boys, Kos' baseball blog devoted to the Tigers).

That said, I was amused to find the following tidbit in this morning's edition of The Note, wherein they float one of their too-cute, fictional memos to make a point about what the Democrats should do between now and November 7.

It's "from" Begala, Carville, Greenberg, et. al. and is addressed to "Leader Pelosi:"

Let's keep our candidates focused ("like a laser beam") on the national "meta" narrative of this campaign -- change v. more of the same. [...]

Play offense every hour of every day for the next three weeks. [...]

Act like winners. [...]

Not bad advice, actually. Then -- surprise! -- they close with this nugget:

Let's follow the trajectory of the Detroit Tigers . . . given up for dead last year . . . surprising everyone with a great summer . . . An early fall swoon . . . followed by a late autumn charge to the World Series . . . good pitching beats good hitting . . . let's keep throwing the high heat at their heads.

Right -- keep them from crowding the plate; make them think twice about digging in. I like it! Now all we have to do is make it happen.

Oh, and the Democrats have to win, too.

I'm just saying.

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