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11-11-2015, 03:49 PM
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11-12-2015, 05:46 PM
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He better get it. It's a much harder accomplishment and that team will have a shot again next year to win the World Series whereas this is it for Pharoah. Steve Haskin says there are two "winners," the editors' pick and the fan vote. The one who gets the cover is picked by the editors. Ideally that's what we want, but I'm hoping AP wins both.
I was gonna tell the obvious PETA "horse racing is abuse" commenters there about how PETA kills thousands of animals every year but I'm not about to authorize that level of app authorization to SI. Why do they need access to being able to change my profile? If one of you has an account, please tear those losers a new @&$hole.
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11-12-2015, 09:37 PM
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Pharoah is now almost 13,000 votes behind the Kansas City Royals. Boo. I call shenanigans!
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11-13-2015, 10:03 PM
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His claim is the strongest and most significant even in terms of time since the last occurrence. The Royals haven't won a World series in about 30 years I think, but we have them beat at 37 years. There's a whole team of them, Pharoah did it himself and had to be good enough in a tighter timeframe. He couldn't lose any of 3 races, they could lose several times over a season (winning less than 60% of their games which I know is fine in baseball, but that's not the point) and technically even five times in the playoffs and make it. The point is American Pharoah had no room for error. None. 100% wins or nothing to win the Triple Crown. He got it, then spent the rest of the year being an ambassador for sport. The Royals haven't even been in a position to do the same as WS champs for as long, nor do they risk anything now. Their season is over. Pharoah's kept going and he risked both injury and failure to solidify his reputation historically in open company. There's just no contest. The editors have to pick him if the public does not.
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11-16-2015, 01:44 PM
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So Pharoah now has FORTY-SIX of 50 states. The only ones he doesn't have are Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and and Nebraska. Hell, he's even got Canada!
Kansas and Missouri, combined, are over 62,000 votes. Out of almost 228,000 cast. Two states are more than a quarter of the total votes. And, of course, they're both going at about 85 percent each for the Royals. I imagine some sort of extrapolation could be made for this is why the electoral college is still relevant. 
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11-18-2015, 07:28 AM
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case for AP
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11-18-2015, 08:00 AM
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