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Popular Vote (was Re: FINAL Words on Sodomy Insane)

Carl Moore (cmoore@ARL.ARMY.MIL)
Tue, 17 May 2005 17:05:24 EDT

Danny Burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote in March 2003 about the
2002 World Series (in commenting about the U.S. Electoral College,
noting that the 2000 presidential winner didn't get the most popular
votes):

> Giants: total runs: 44
> Angels: total runs: 41

> Of course, the number that COUNTS is the number of individual games that
> were won. And there, the score was:

> Giants: 3
> Angels: 4

I don't mean to go on a sports tangent, but even more dramatic was the
1960 World Series. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the NY Yankees 4
games to 3, but scored only 27 runs compared to NY Yankees' 55 runs!

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