In what must have been a happy moment on the eve of a miserable midterm election, President Obama called San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy to congratulate him on the team's improbable World Series victory.
The conversation was no doubt short and perfunctory, but the sports-minded president would have done well for himself to ask the Giants skipper for some advice. Not long ago, Bochy was at an all-time low in San Francisco polls, as fans consistently flooded talk radio and blogs with calls for his huge head (hat size: 10).
Now that he's won the Series and seemed to imbue his every move with a Midas touch, Bochy's massive melon is seen as a sign of genius, which should give hope to the Obamanistas that the prez can get his mojo back as well. The Giants' championship offers up a few other story lines that ought to play well in the White House:
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paring back the 15 Cabinet level Executive Departments and 6 other
non-department administrative agency heads (that have cabinet
level rank), to 12 posts and create 'Obama's Dirty Dozen'. I can hear
the Prez exclaiming: "You look at this cabinet team, we have some
characters here, you know, whether you want to call them castoffs or
misfits, I compare them to the SF Giants Dirty Dozen. That's the way they
play politics. But they've coalesced into a team that goes out there to win."