Where's the issue?
With all the things to debate in this great wide wacky world of ours, the hot button topic in these parts, at least if you're a Mets fan, is who do you root for if it is a Phillies/Yankees World Series? (The really obnoxious part is the media's assuption that it's going to be the Yankees. I'm so glad the Angels won last night.) In my mind, the answer is a no-brainer. You don't root for anyone. When your enemy plays your enemy, you root against someone. And when the Yankees are involved, the basic law of nature says you always, always, always root against the Yankees. Yet evidently the Mets fans, those remaining, are divided. Yes, it hurts that the Phillies won the division the last several years and kicked dirt in our collective faces while doing so. Yes, the Mets had epic collapses to enable those Phillies wins. But the Phillies were better and wanted it more. So when Jimmy Rollins said the Phillies, not the Mets, were the team to beat... he was right! And when Cole Hamels called the Mets choke artists.... he was right! Can't hate them for telling the truth. The Yankees, on the other hand, I can hate til the cows come home. I encounter Phillies fans every now and then. I have to put up with Yankees fans every damn day. Their superiority complex. Those damnable logos everywhere I turn, on every head, on every car. The comparison of our miserable first season in an overpriced new stadium to their glorious first season in their even more overpriced new stadium. The Yankees never go away. The Phillies, even with my close proximity to their city, do. It's a no-brainer, kids, you root against the Yankees. They are your mortal enemy. Even better, while they're still breathing, you root for the Angels. Root hard!
Almost as important as baseball teams is our down-to-the-wire race for governor, which the polls say is currently a dead heat. Here, New Jerseyians must employ a similar strategy to avoid humiliation. Forget taxes, health care, jobs. The real question to be asked is which man has a greater chance of being indicted while a sitting governor? I think that honor has to go to Chris Christie, therefore I must vote against him and side with Corzine, who after all wasn't driving when his state car was going 100 mph and ran off the road, breaking both his legs. He just wasn't wearing his seat belt.
And that is the coin-flipping wisdom I have for today.
Almost as important as baseball teams is our down-to-the-wire race for governor, which the polls say is currently a dead heat. Here, New Jerseyians must employ a similar strategy to avoid humiliation. Forget taxes, health care, jobs. The real question to be asked is which man has a greater chance of being indicted while a sitting governor? I think that honor has to go to Chris Christie, therefore I must vote against him and side with Corzine, who after all wasn't driving when his state car was going 100 mph and ran off the road, breaking both his legs. He just wasn't wearing his seat belt.
And that is the coin-flipping wisdom I have for today.