Posted on 11/19/2008 9:39:27 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
I never do this sort of thing...but I would really appreciate y'all's help here.
Do you hate the hive mentality of DailyKos? Would you like to make them squirm?
Do you like baseball? Would you like to reward smart, non-partisan analysis that has influenced the way we all now approach baseball?
One of the greatest baseball bloggers in America, David Cameron of U.S.S. Mariner, is up for this online scholarship award. The people who run it, in their infinite wisdom, have made the contest an INTERNET POLL: the winner gets $10,000 to pay off their educational debts.
Cameron was the early favorite, but some other fellow named David Mauro, who runs a hard-left blog on Texas politics, went to Daily Kos and started diary-bombing the site begging people to run up the vote for them, by hook or by crook. It's turned into something of a war between left-wingers and baseball fans, with the Kos people screaming about how they need to "support one of their own" (even if nobody's heard of the guy Mauro) and that sabermetric blogging is a "commercial sell-out."
We need help. Not only is Cameron one of the smartest, most hard-working, influential baseball thinkers in America (seriously, if you've ever read in-depth on statistical analysis, odds are you've read stuff either written or inspired by him), he's newly married and could really use the money. This is a great guy who has not only changed the way an entire city thinks about sports, but helped influence the entire country. Don't let him lose now because the worker-drones at KOS are smurfing the poll.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
I can’t vote..
I can’t vote either.
Try motor-voter, and if I remember correctly, Wisconsin has same day registration and voting. Go to the ACORN site for more tips.
BTTT.
ping for later
How do you vote?
The page just has their names.
not working?
What in the world are you talking about?
Thomas Peters blog obviously maintains a conservative Catholic worldview. It is not left-wing, it is conservative.
Second to him in this voting is David Mauro, with a left-wing blog, teh Burnt Orange Report.
Your baseball fan guy is in third.
Ummm... you linked to the results page, not the vote page...
Here is the vote page:
http://www.collegescholarships.org/blog/2008/11/06/
I take it back, sorry. David Mauro is neck and neck with your Seattle fan, David Cameron. Thomas Peters is in a distant third.
Thomas Peters is 9000 votes behind Mauro... I’m not sure what numbers you are looking at.
They are not listed in order of vote count.
Thomas Peters
4646
Pamela Aghababian
262
Jonathan Dingel
379
Jennifer Lynn Jordan
284
Gavin Rehkemper
304
Danielle Lee
530
David Mauro
12340
Brian Switek
2139
David Malinowski
269
Thursday Bram
63
Evan Lisull
396
Omar Hossino
434
Kyle de Beausset
107
Shanan Glandz
112
David Cameron
11569
Justin Higgins
654
Michael Snively
2290
Evans Boney
194
Ross Taylor
638
Justin Varner
31
Total Votes: 37641
thanks!
OK, what do you do if you hate baseball AND the DailyKoz? THEN who do you root for?
;)
I figure if the KOS kids are for someone, then that someone must be a bad choice, and if they are against someone, then that person must be a good choice. The enemy of my enemy is at least an ally if not a friend.
I voted for Cameron, but he is trailing with 11614 to Mauro’s 12346.
FReep Alert!
Redstate can F**K off.
I’m betting McCain was their guy. No good losers.
saving
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