The Pint at the End of the Journey
I confess that my crystal ball is more like a pint glass, so it is fitting that fellow MA political blogger Left Center Left and I have wagered a pint and a road trip on an aspect of the unfolding gubernatorial campaign here in Massachusetts.
It all started when I predicted that "Deval Patrick's race for governor of Massachusetts will be one of the most talked about, reported on and influential races for any office anywhere in the United States in 2006."
Left Center Left felt that this was either brilliantly prescient or an absurd overstatement -- but apparently leaned to the latter. He countered with the prediction that "no race in Massachusetts this time around will be influential, talked about or heavily reported on outside our borders."
So yesterday, I proposed that whomever's prediction turns out to have more reality to it receive a pint at the establishment of their choosing, and that we allow our fellow political bloggers to judge. Left Center Left has graciously accepted. If he wins, I will travel to an exotic neighborhood in Boston and serve him a pint of Boddington's at the Brendan Behan. If I win, he will head west to Northampton, and provide me with a pint of Berkshire Brewing Company's Steel Rail at Packard's.
So far, I see that bloggers Michael Wilcox, Nohomissives, Charley on the MTA and Left in Lowell are in for the judging or the drinking or both. But all are welcome to join in the discussion and the pint at the end of the journey.
Admittedly, the standard by which to measure whose prediction has more reality to it, could be a bit subjective. But I think that both of our predictions are strongly stated enough for others to say who was mostly right or mostly wrong on this. (Thanks to various search engines and Google News, we are rarely more than a few keystrokes away from knowing quite a bit about what the news media and the blogosphere is doing and saying.)
So as Left Center Left wrote today, "Bet's on."
It all started when I predicted that "Deval Patrick's race for governor of Massachusetts will be one of the most talked about, reported on and influential races for any office anywhere in the United States in 2006."
Left Center Left felt that this was either brilliantly prescient or an absurd overstatement -- but apparently leaned to the latter. He countered with the prediction that "no race in Massachusetts this time around will be influential, talked about or heavily reported on outside our borders."
So yesterday, I proposed that whomever's prediction turns out to have more reality to it receive a pint at the establishment of their choosing, and that we allow our fellow political bloggers to judge. Left Center Left has graciously accepted. If he wins, I will travel to an exotic neighborhood in Boston and serve him a pint of Boddington's at the Brendan Behan. If I win, he will head west to Northampton, and provide me with a pint of Berkshire Brewing Company's Steel Rail at Packard's.
So far, I see that bloggers Michael Wilcox, Nohomissives, Charley on the MTA and Left in Lowell are in for the judging or the drinking or both. But all are welcome to join in the discussion and the pint at the end of the journey.
Admittedly, the standard by which to measure whose prediction has more reality to it, could be a bit subjective. But I think that both of our predictions are strongly stated enough for others to say who was mostly right or mostly wrong on this. (Thanks to various search engines and Google News, we are rarely more than a few keystrokes away from knowing quite a bit about what the news media and the blogosphere is doing and saying.)
So as Left Center Left wrote today, "Bet's on."
posted by Frederick Clarkson at 4:34 PM
1 Comments:
Oh you can definitely count me in as a drinker/judge/hailfellowwell met or any other category that allows me to attend the final payoff of the bet.
As I commented in my own blog tonight though, we have a lot of people who need to hear about DP before this race has a national impact.....
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