Posted on 11/02/2010 6:22:27 AM PDT by paul in cape
Now that the Giants have won the World Series, Will Bay Area voters come out of their self-induced marijuana and opium high in time to vote today? If you remember, a few days ago Candlestick Park was engulfed in a haze of pot smoke, to the point that even Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton, a recovering drug abuser, complained about the aroma.
(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com ...
Down toward the end, we have this:
“I’m calling in sick tomorrow - everyone is calling in sick,” said Patrick Steber, 31, as he celebrated on Castro Street.
“And then I’ll vote around noon,” he said. “We have to honor (pitcher) Timmy Lincecum by passing (the measure to legalize marijuana) Proposition 19.”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/01/MNV51G5BSV.DTL&tsp=1
Hey, now. Don't lump us all into one category. Some of us are far-flung across the country. And besides, even among the local Giants fans, I'd be willing to bet most are more red-blooded American than sports-hating liberals.
The Giants do not play at Candlestick, the Niners play there.
Actually, if you want liberal sports-fans, I think you go with the Warriors (assuming that is still a franchise). Giants fans are too hardy to be liberal, even if the team has moved to better climate downtown. And I’m a Giants fan and I voted on Oct 14th, basically the very first chance I had. Straight Pubbie ticket here in North Carolina, so it doesn’t turn into Californication Nation East.
Many lefties love sports....
...and just like in an election, if the lefties team loses, many will say the other side cheated or stole the game.
The San Francisco Giants merit kudos for one thing at least: their ball park was entirely financed by private borrowing. In one fashion or another, almost every other major league professional sports team has their hand in the public till, thus indirectly transferring wealth from the taxpayers to team owners and players.
Well I know nothing about Giants fans, I’m sure there are some. But I saw a couple of World Series games in Oakland and the crowd was totally blase. Not into it at all.
RATS that turn over cars and start fires in the streets will be sleeping in today. Today I am a Giants fan.
...and just like in an election, if the lefties team loses, many will say the other side cheated or stole the game.
Ah, this explains Seattle after SB XL ...
That’s ok. I date myself all the time. Mainly because I can’t get a woman to date me!
i just did another search, and it appears that whoever on twitter is against prop 19 will refer to it as “prop 19”, everyone referring to prop19 is for it. It’s the difference between “prop19” and “prop 19” . It appears that a few drug dealers are worried.
Twitter likes pot, rather than potheads liking twitter. Twitter is pretty popular, and there isn’t too much No on 19 out there in twitterville.
Well, maybe.
There are more potheads than not potheads I guess?
Just trying to figure out how nobody on Twitter is no on 19?
Of course, twitter is young people mostly, and young people are all yes on 19, but the only no on 19 I saw was from street drug dealers worried about income.
Why would that be embarrassing and why would it change minds?
I can see rioting in a Liberal city associated strongly with Democrats would make people associate Democrats with rioting, and most people are against rioting.
Someone did an analysis a while ago on sports fans and political leanings.
They plotted it on a chart that showed NBA fans to the left, NFL fans to the right and MLB fans right in the middle.
This points to a win for prop 19, and likely problems for Fiorina and Whitman.
It doesn’t appear that there’s much of an “enthusiasm gap” in San Fran. All across the country, Dems are demoralized - there’s nothing for them to vote for. Here, they’re honoring the hero pitcher. A reason for them to vote, and instead of working for 8 hours or more, they’re doing nothing but voting.
And, typically, “change” candidates don’t do as well when the home team wins. Winning the World Series “all is well”, not as angry, not wanting change quite as much.
I hope that’s tongue in cheek. It’s so wrong for many reasons:
(1) Many SF Giants fans live outside the bay area - in Reagan country.
(2) Of the fans that are SF libs, what do you care if they vote? They will re-elect Pelosi, who will then resign next year when she loses her gavel.
This is one lifelong Giants fan who already voted the GOP ticket by absentee ballot. And my district arguably has the most competitive House race (Harmer) and competitive state Assembly race (Wilson) in the state.
100% correct. The rest of MLB owners hate the Giants because they did not accept one dime of public funding (SF stupidvisors would be outraged if someone took a dollar away from the homeless people).
One of the biggest crimes of the century is taking money from the working stiffs (via taxation) and transferring it to the benefit of wealthy team owners and players. NFL,NBA,MLB and Hockey are highly profitable enterprises, they can afford to build their own stadiums and sell tickets to pay for them.
You can't smoke cigarettes but you can smoke weed, especially around kids? That is embarrassing. Makes SF look childish. Allot of parents were pissed off I'm sure.
Say what?
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