Another Reason To Love The Bosox

The photo captures that magical moment in 2004 when they disposed of “The Curse of the Bambino.”

Based on this HuffPo story, it appears that the ownership of the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball team (including Managing General Partner Ken Kendrick and CEO Jeff Moorad) are the biggest contributors to Republican Party presidential candidates among all of Major League Baseball’s owners thus far in the 2008 election.

How appropriate given the fact that the team is named in honor of a snake.

Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, Chairman Thomas C. Werner of the Boston Red Sox has donated $2,300 to John Edwards, $2,500 to Sen. Chris Dodd, and $2,300 to Sen. Barack Obama (sounds like a smart man with his money – asset allocation is truly important in this stuff).

The article notes the other contributors to campaigns among MLB’s owners, though many appear to be hedging their bets at this point (including Chairman Bill Giles of the Phillies, who donated to Dubya in ’04; he’s a Repug capitalist from waaay back, but I have to give him his due a bit for his accomplishments, as long as he’s decided not to participate in player decisions anymore).

It’s serendipitous a bit that I found this story, because we had a family jaunt last night to Citizens Bank Park to watch the Phillies. It is truly a great place – I’ve been to Fenway also, which is another shrine, but the Phillies have done well in building their home; lots of family fun things to do, shopping of course, and great places to eat. It’s worth it just to experience Ashburn Alley where most of this stuff is located.

However, it rained from the third inning on, almost every ball the home team hit seemed to be caught, and they lost to the Florida Marlins 4-2 partly because Wes Helms couldn’t bunt a runner over to second base preceding a wild pitch (and this guy makes more dough that I would see in about 10-15 years…aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!).

Oh well, the Braves are in town for a big series, and we just have to forget the night before. As somebody said, tomorrow is another day.

Oh, and by the way, speaking of the Phillies, it seems that one of their most famous alums has gone around the bend again ("little green doctors," huh? Any luck finding those "strangers"?).