Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers won the first MLB Triple Crown in 45 years yesterday
His name will forever be said in the same breath as other baseball greats like Carl Yastrzemski, Frank Robinson, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams and Lou Gehrig. A heady neighborhood, indeed.
During this 2012 season, Cabrera hit six sacrifice flies, which did nothing to improve upon his top record of home runs, runs batted in and batting percentage.
Yet, in the long run, those six sac flies were there to help him and the Tigers win the American League Central division championship.
It was his overall performance, both at home plate and out in the field… Over the long run of the season, that did the trick. After he struck out ninety-eight times this season, so one said that those strike out were going to make him a loser. Nor the twenty-eight times he hit into a double play out.
No, in the long run, he won with overall consistency. One bad game didn't stop him from be the victor that he is today.
The lesson here is that President Barack Obama has also shown the same penchant for consistent achievement, in spite of the occasional bad time at bat. Look at the way he's led in the overall polls in most of the swing states. Look at each and every time he prevailed in spite of Republican intransigence. He has shown to be a consistent winner, no one can dispute this.
Last night's debate performance by the President, to me, can best be likened to a sac fly to right field at the bottom of the ninth inning of a tied game, with a runner on third base and no one out… Sure, hitting that ball out there won't do favors to his batting average and when that ball is caught it's going to mean that the batter is out.
But the runner's gonna tag and make a break for home, and you know what? He's going to score and we're going to win the game, people. Yet Mitt Romney has caught that sac fly getting the batter out, but he's taking a victory lap merely because he caught the ball. People are forgetting that by doing that, he's lost the game.
Romney is going to take all of the lies that won him the debate last night and those lies are going to paint him into a corner that he can't get out of.
Think outside the box, folks. There's no reason to panic. We've got a ways to go and last night will definitely turn out to be part of Mitt's eventually downfall.
Because in the words of the great Yogi Berra, "It ain't over 'till it's over."
