Rant for a Monday Morning

A brief rant for a Monday morning. First of all I think the City of Boston and her beloved Red Sox should thank Fox Television and Major League Baseball for assisting in their World Series win. It used to be if you went 7 games in a League championship series you had 1 maybe 2 days off before the World Series. This schedule made sense. There should be some benefit to ending the LCS early. The last two years have shown that this idea is now backwards. You are better off taking 7 games to win your LCS, particularly if your eventual opponent sweeps their LCS. Enough of baseball, it is now officially the "off-season".

On to politics. Listening to Morning Edition on the way to work I heard that both parties in Iowa have now officially moved their caucuses to January 3rd. Is it me or have things gotten really silly. The Republican nominating process will be almost exactly 8 months long. Other democracies will run an entire election in less than 8 weeks. If the delegate selection process is starting so early why is the convention so late? Granted the Democrats aren't much better holding their convention the week before. Does anybody really believe there will be any mystery to the outcome of either convention? So for almost 6 months we will be in what amounts to the general election campaign but it won't be official until September 4th. If there is any mystery about the outcomes of the conventions I promise to link back to this post and say I
was a complete idiot.