Who needs Nate Silver...

When You've Got Matt Drudge?
I trust Drudge's poll of readers is a fair sampling:

**DRUDGE SUPER POLL** WHO IS YOUR PICK FOR PRESIDENT?

SANDERS  32.66%  (335,933 votes)  

 

TRUMP  31.66%  (325,584 votes)  

 

CRUZ  19.96%  (205,280 votes)  

 

RUBIO  5.15%  (53,010 votes)  

 

PAUL  3.38%  (34,800 votes)  

 

CARSON  1.48%  (15,262 votes)  

 

KASICH  1.38%  (14,215 votes)  

 

FIORINA  1.07%  (10,975 votes)  

 

CHRISTIE  1.06%  (10,896 votes)  

 

BUSH  0.94%  (9,636 votes)  

 

CLINTON  0.92%  (9,499 votes)  

 

SANTORUM  0.21%  (2,123 votes)  

 

O'MALLEY  0.13%  (1,287 votes)   

Lots of living to do between now and next Halloween... which is when election season really starts to crank up in these parts, the year of a presidential election. 

Autumn is election season. 
We're not in Iowa.

Never really did support the idea of concentrating on one season, year round, and dropping all your other sports to over-compensate.  Life is too short to miss out on baseball in the spring and summer because you've got ice-time year-round, say.  Conversely, it can burn out summer players who live in a climate where they're expected to compete year-round. Younger athletes can find it harder to find life balance by specializing so intensely they miss out on other opportunities in other games.

More and more, I think of life as a long-term race, not a sprint, you just have to know when to accelerate to pass.

"Who can go the distance?

We'll find out, in the long run.

We can handle some resistance

if our love is a strong one.

Scared? But we ain't shakin'.

Kinda bent, but we ain't breakin'

IN the long run..."