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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

2008 John McCain = The Seattle Pilots

posted by Eli Sanders on October 8 at 12:15 PM

So says Nate Silver, a baseball statistician turned election poll guru who runs one of my current favorite web sites, FiveThirtyEight.com.

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1

As a life-long Brewers fan, this news saddens me, slightly...

Posted by i have a medium penis | October 8, 2008 12:18 PM
2

Dear Medium Penis...

Perhaps the "thing to do"

is not so much "be saddened"

by your loss of 'in"sporting" brews'...

as " to bitch is devine" ....for all....

TRUE JAZZ.....
FANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by d.b.kieneker | October 8, 2008 12:29 PM
3

The reference starts at 4:10, for people who don't want to / can't sit through the entirety of these videos...

Posted by Non | October 8, 2008 12:31 PM
4

DBK: pills. Take your pills.

Posted by Fnarf | October 8, 2008 1:32 PM
5

First, Nate Silver is really cute. Second, I love his metaphor of the state of the campaign: "Bottom of the ninth inning, McCain's down two runs, and Sarah Palin just got picked off first base."

Posted by Bub | October 8, 2008 2:01 PM
6

baseball statiscians are gods. but the rays are not going to win it.


PHILLIES!!!

Posted by SeMe | October 8, 2008 2:26 PM
7

@5. Agreed. I loves me some sexy statistics geeks.

Posted by Julie in Chicago | October 8, 2008 5:53 PM

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