Hillary Clinton: Not Just Salting Wild Bill's Game Anymore

Hey everyone, A Friend of Mr. Glass here with a minor morning update for you before today's posts about the El Duque trade and the game last night.

I was sent an article this morning by loyal Y2K reader Pootsum, in which New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton vociferously denied the charge that she was a Mets fan.

"I cannot let stand that I have ever, ever been a Mets fan: Let's set the record straight," Clinton said at the National Press Club on Tuesday.

Think about her phraseology there, particularly the repition of 'ever'. Saying it once dismisses the idea, saying it twice mocks it. "No, I have never been a Mets fan -- do you even have to ask that? What kind of jackass do you take me for?" she seems to be asking.

"The Cubs and the Yankees -- those were my teams and remained my teams growing up and now in my mature years," she insisted.

She was there, man! She's not your typical Midwestern transplant-turned-Yankee-fan. She was there as a youngster, living and dying with every pinstriped swing of the bat as she grew up in... Chicago.

Hey, makes enough sense to me.

- A.F.O.M.G.

(Thanks also to Shabasito for sending word of this story along. If you want to read the article that these quotes come from, check it out here: http://www.amny.com/news/politics/am-hill0524,0,7592933.story?coll=am-topheadlines)