One of the warnings that Glenn Reynolds constantly gives about election 2024 is not to get cocky, reminding people if they want to elect Trump they need to get out there and act.
The best reminder of this I can think of came yesterday in Cincinnati and in Boston.
In Boston the Red Sox were playing their final game against the hapless Chicago White Sox who went into that game needing 9 wins to avoid surpassing the 1962 New York Mets as the worst team since the founding of the American League in 1900 and the World Series Era (1903).
The Redsox are fighting for the last playoff stop in the AL so had every incentive to win but despite this the White Sox surprised a bunch of people by taking the final game of the series at Fenway.
That was a pretty big surprise but not as big as what happened in Cincinnati.
The New England Patriots with a rookie coach opened their season against the Cincinnati Bengals. The Patriots starting quarterback was Jacoby Brisett who earned his Superbowl ring as a backup in New England when Tom Brady engineered the most impossible comeback in the history of the game. The similarities end there. For the last month we have been hearing from every talk radio host in NE that the patriots have one of the worst if not THE worst set of wide receivers and a suspect offensive line. Nobody gave them a chance against the Bengals with an elite QB at the helm.
New England however played ball control football running up a storm and controlling the clock while their defense held Cincy to a mere 10 points on the way to a 16-10 victory. More people in Boston and elsewhere were picking with White Sox over the Red Sox than were picking the pats over the Bengals.
What’s the lesion here? There is a reason why they actually play the game, it’s the same with elections. Don’t assume it’s in the bag, do something about it. The Pats and the White Sox did.
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