Noteworthy Night for Obama, Bulls’ Rosenberg

November 7, 2012 @ admin → No Comments

Midweek musings: OK, now that the elections are over (they are over, aren’t they?), the next time anyone mentions a right winger, it better have something to do with hockey.

* Some of us actually went to the Chicago Bulls-Orlando Magic game rather than stay home and watch the polls close in various states. By the time the game had ended, the election was close to being over, as well. Which qualifies about as close to a November surprise as anything else.

Elections? How about for Maxim’s Hometown Hotties winner?

* Speaking of the election, President Barack Obama was in Chicago on Tuesday (Nov. 6). You’d think Obama — who played some basketball earlier in the day — might have shown up at the Bulls game. Like he has something better to do?

* Wondering how soon it will be before David Axelrod, a key Obama advisor, will show up at the United Center for a Bulls game. The guy does deserve a day off after Obama was re-elected over Mitt Romney.

* Of note in the presidential elections as the performance of noted stats guy Nate Silver, who started out in the relatively less important world of baseball. He works for the New York Times nowadays and operates on Twitter as @fivethirtyeight. OK. In that case, mister @fivethirtyeight, how many games are the Cubs and White Sox going to win in 2013?

Among the Hometown Hotties finalists is Justine Davis of Chicago.

* Speaking of Twitter and baseball and elections, Kim DeJesus — wife of Cubs outfielder David DeJesus — tweeted after Colorado voters approved a referendum legalizing marijuana: Parents, when your kids all decide they are now going to Colorado for college, just be prepared for lots of care package requests #cheetos

* Still speaking of Twitter and baseball and elections, here is one from Oakland A’s pitcher Brandon McCarthy — @BMCarthy32 — directed to a Missouri senatorial candidate: @ToddAkin any thoughts on where things might have gone wrong? If you don’t understand McCarthy’s tweet, maybe next election cycle you should spend a few minutes reading and/or watching what’s going on in various campaigns around the country.

* St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports columnist Bernie Miklasz — ‏@miklasz — tweeted: Politics as sport: Wolf Blitzer = Chris Berman.

* And one more tweet, from Tim McGinnis — ‏@Aisle424: I’m pretty sure Tim McCarver might actually be a better baseball analyst than any of these people are political analysts.

* As Tuesday evening wore on, some of us (OK, maybe merely me) wondered when Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler was going to endorse Obama over Romney — whom Cutler previously endorsed. Some of us like to think that would have been an audible rather than a flip-flop.

* By the end of the evening, it was tough to tell who was more disappointed: Romney supporters of Bulls fans at the United Center after Joakim Noah missed a free throw and Kirk Hinrich two in the final seconds to deprive the game’s patrons a Big Mac as the Bulls fell short of 100 points in a 99-93 victory over Orlando.

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If things go according to plan (which they occasionally do), there will be additional videos of the Luvabulls in the Nov. 8 edition:

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Speaking of stats guys (and even if we weren’t), Bob Rosenberg reached a milestone at Tuesday’s Bulls-Magic game. It was the longtime official scorer’s 2,000th with the Bulls.