David Munk's post below adds a new wrinkle to an age-old journalistic debate about sports analogies.
Historically, this has been a gender thing, with women occasionally wondering why male writers insisted on importing to political coverage such concepts as the Hail Mary pass. But now it appears this is one of the unanticipated transatlantic wrinkles of Guardian America. Do we use baseball lingo? Football lingo? Or, you know, football lingo (i.e. soccer)?
I appreciate David's effort even though he got it slightly wrong. There wouldn't of course be "no score" in the bottom of the ninth, but the good guys would be down a run or two. In that spirit, let me observe that I find it vexing that Joe Biden and Chris Dodd, who are very well-qualified candidates, remain mired at mid-table. Did I get that right?
