Series Backdrop Comes in Red and Blue

[HuckleB]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/sports/baseball/27mayors.html?_r=1&hp

"The men who manage the metropolises that will be competing when the World Series begins Wednesday night have played a little baseball in their time. In the case of the Dallas mayor, Tom Leppert, it was a few innings on the mound for the junior varsity at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California.

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Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco and a candidate for California lieutenant governor, was more serious about the game, starring at Redwood High School in Larkspur, Calif., and playing for two years at Santa Clara University.

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In keeping with the spirit of the current midterm elections, Leppert, a Republican, said he was a right-handed pitcher when he played and Newsom, a Democrat, proudly stated that he threw and hit from the left.

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There probably is no American city more closely tied to liberal causes than San Francisco, home of the Giants. And the Rangers, who play in Arlington, Tex., but are the newly minted pride of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, were once owned by the man championed as a compassionate conservative, former President George W. Bush, who has remained visible as a fan during the team’s first-ever run to the Series.

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Just sharing. That is all.

:beer: :popcorn:

[Upton]

1. I wish this series didn't have be framed that way..

but I guess it's unavoidable. You've got the most progressive city in America on one side against a team from Texas whose act includes George Bush and a big hitting fundie..

[HuckleB]

4. It's just the press doing what the press does.

It's all entertainment.

:beer:

[El Supremo]

2. Arlington ain't Dallas!

It's not even in the same county. As the former mayor said: "We aren't anybody's suburb." It's always been that way, from the time my great grandparents lived there to when I lived there.

[HuckleB]

3. Who cares who goes off with goofy, false civic pride one liners?

In any metro of that type it now qualifies as a suburb. For pete's sake, the whole D-FW area is just one massive suburb, when it comes down to it.