george doesn't have a clue

this is pretty interesting, george bush didn't support one thing that became a wildly successful and profitable endeavour, and now supports an other thing that is becoming wildly unsuccessful and and is costing a lot o f lives and money

does he really have a clue

Wild card turns 10, loses stigma
By Mike Dodd, USA TODAY

When the Boston Red Sox take the field in Anaheim Tuesday, they will begin baseball's 10th postseason in the expanded format, which includes teams that didn't win a division title.

Happy anniversary, wild card.

You've outlasted about half the American marriages from the year of your inception but probably matched them in arguments and disputes.

Major League Baseball's decision in 1993 to realign its leagues into three divisions and include the team with the next-best record in the playoffs was considered heresy by the purists, particularly because it copied a concept from football, of all things.

The only baseball owner to vote against the change, which took effect in 1994 before the postseason was canceled by labor strife, was from Texas.

"I made my arguments and went down in flames. History will prove me right," said then-Rangers owner George W. Bush, whose foresight led him to bigger and better things.

"This is an exercise in folly."

Nine postseasons and three wild-card World Series champions later, the concept promoted by Commissioner Bud Selig is almost universally accepted and unquestionably good for business. Witness the capacity or near-capacity crowds in Chicago, Houston and San Diego last week in what would have been otherwise meaningless series.