Which shouldn’t bother me, I guess, since I’m for Barack Obama. But it is kind of weird how the Clinton campaign continues to plod along acting like she is the inevitable nominee, just as the Mets sleepwalked through last season — .500 ball after June, followed by The Collapse in September. We were the favorites and supposed to win the division and make it all the way to the World Series. This was supposed to make up for 2006, when we lost game 7 of the NLCS. Now we have to make up for 2006 AND 2007.
Memo to Hillary and the 2008 Mets: There is no “inevitable.”
I hope the Mets don’t fall into the same trap this season. The team is confident, as all teams are in February, which is fine. But they’d better not get over-confident. The “We’re the team to beat” talk has already begun. Me, I’m the old-fashioned type who believes that talk is cheap. I hope that our guys won’t be eating humble pie come October.
Having Johan Santana (“the best pitcher on the planet”) has given the Mets the chance to do very well this season, but the adoration being heaped upon him is obsessive. Kind of like what Obama has been experiencing:
Many talented politicians attract devoted throngs — but with Obama, the fervency of his following borders on the messianic …
– Obamamania verges on obsession, by Lisa Lerer
I like having Johan on the Mets and I’d like for Obama to be president, but I know that neither can walk on water. It’ll be interesting to see how Mets fans react when Johan stumbles. (Hey, he’s human. He’s going to stumble.) Ditto Obama. How will his fans/supporters react when he doesn’t live up to the image that they have created?
