Will, Hill and reimagining the Democratic primaries
8 May 2008 by Robert SchlesingerCasual readers of even my writings here know that I’m not the type to often agree with conservative George F. Will, but even I’ve gotta love his entry today:
Hillary Clinton … may think, or at least would argue, that when she was 12 her Yankees really won the 1960 World Series, by standards of “fairness,” because they trounced the Pirates in runs scored, 55-27, over seven games, so there.
Unfortunately, baseball’s rules — pesky nuisances, rules — say it matters how runs are distributed during a World Series. The Pirates won four games, which is the point of the exercise, by a total margin of seven runs, while the Yankees were winning three by a total of 35 runs. You can look it up.
Tee hee. Two reasons I like this (and more or less the rest of the article). The first is that he’s correct. The second is that it’s the same logic I used over at Robert Emmet almost six weeks ago. To wit:
So it turns out that the Super Bowl was a tie.
Bear with me here. Look, it’s true that the Giants scored more points than the New England Patriots if one chooses to follow the traditional rules of football. But if you only count touchdowns, the game ended in a tie.
Hey — I didn’t invent this kind of logic. Bill Clinton did.
What can I say? Great minds think alike. And wear bow ties.