McCain Deals Another Blow to Local Sports Fans

As the Slog pointed out yesterday, giant baseball nerd (God bless those of us that are left) Nate Silver uses some sort of math (snore) to project what he claims is non-biased polling data.

Recently on the Colbert Report, he was asked to compare the candidates to baseball teams. He called Barack Obama the Tampa Bay Rays, not because of their all-secret Muslim infield, rather, because of his status as an up-and-coming power house. However, John McCain was compared to the Seattle Pilots.

As a local sports fan watching a historic amount of crappy teams, we are now taking heat for a team that left town eight years before we were born. Come on Silver, there are plenty of other failed franchises out there to compare to the McCain campaign. Please, leave us with what little dignity we have left.

Not that any of this matters anyway.

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Math is what's going to win this election. You can sleep through it if you want but that seems a little ignorant to me. Being innumerate is cool!

I am addicted to fivethirtyeight, but your comment is right.

Why compare McCain to our beloved Pilots, when in reality his campaign compares more favorably to our current Mariners franchise, which, like the McCain campaign is run by inept, old white men who don't like it when gay people kiss.

@gasstationdogs: Understanding humor is also cool.

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Admiralzing! Comment of the year!

Admiralzing, that was brilliant.

@Audrey: Yeah, you're right. And since seattlest is a bastion of humor this is where I will do my internship in appreciating humor.

He called Barack Obama the Tampa Bay Rays...because of his status as an up-and-coming power house.

So if the "up-and-coming power house" loses to the venerated, old school team from Boston, does that bode poorly for Mr. Obama?

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