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| The future first couple? |
Of course, it was all about fluff. No substance or anything of interest. What the sports-types seem to be focusing on is his belief that the Chicago Cubs should honor him by not allowing any of their other ballplayers to wear his old uniform number “21.”
HE
MIGHT HAVE a point. It is kind of tacky and borderline childish that the Cubs
are refusing that honor. He is, after all, the guy who hit more home runs as a
Cub (545 of his 609 home runs overall) than any other.
But
the part that got me intrigued were the comments about Sosa someday running for
the presidency in the Dominican Republic.
I
never knew that all those strikeouts he accumulated (he would have surpassed
Reggie Jackson for the career lead if his career hadn’t come to a sudden,
rather abrupt, halt) made Sammy an expert on any issue of public policy!
On
the surface, Sosa for president of anything other than the Sammy Sosa Fan Club
(with himself as its sole member) is ridiculous.
BUT
BEFORE WE laugh, let’s not forget how all those Minnesotans managed to put the
professional wrestler Jesse Ventura in their governor’s mansion for one term.
Sammy
and his clownish ballplayer antics would hardly be the biggest joke to ever
fulfill a political prophecy by managing to get themselves elected to office based
on their superficial appeal on something completely irrelevant.
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| Where is he now? |
Meaning
that if the Dominican people seriously want to cast that vote, they will truly
get what they deserve. Although based off his answer, it seems that Sammy envisions a campaign where the people turn out and annoint him, rather than he actually doing any serious work to campaign for public office.
Somehow, I expect Sosa (with his current 12 percent support level) has a better
chance of getting elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame someday than he does in
making wife Sonia a first lady.
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