Herman Cain Uses Numerology to Court Key Baseball
Fan Demographic

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Will numerology send Mitt Romney into second place? (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain has resorted to one of the oldest divine arts, numerology, in his attempt to claim the White House in 2012. Cain's widely discussed 9-9-9 plan, while superficially having something to do with taxes, has given his campaign a boost thanks to the symbolic power of the numbers involved. By tapping into the psyche of baseball fans, Cain has vaulted to the top of the polls.

Consider:

Baseball games have nine innings.
Baseball teams have nine players in the field.
Baseball teams have nine players in the lineup.
9-9-9 = 9+9+9 = The number of outs in a baseball game.
9-9-9 gives you an outfield trio of Ted Williams, Reggie Jackson, and Roger Maris, all number 9s.
Roy Hobbs was number nine.
Cain's surge has coincided with the dramatic final week of the season and the beginning of the postseason.

Did somebody just open a window? Because I just felt a chill.

The simplicity of the 9-9-9 message has had an incantatory effect on seamheads. They don't consciously understand the appeal, but they feel the pull. As baseball interest reaches a crescendo with the World Series later this month, expect Cain's surge to continue. While this interest may fade as fall turns to winter, 9-9-9 could be a game-changer in the fall of 2012, should Cain win the GOP nomination. The 2012 pennant races and postseason will lead nearly all the way to November's Election Day.

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Greinke keeps quiet ahead of Game 5 (AP)

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Zack Greinke apparently is done providing bulletin-board material. Greinke rekindled some animosity between Milwaukee and St. Louis before the NL championship series with comments about Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter, saying his Brewers teammates don’t much like the 2005 NL Cy Young Award winner. “They think his presence, his attitude out there sometimes is like a [...]

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Greinke keeping quiet ahead of Game 5 (AP)

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Zack Greinke apparently is done providing bulletin-board material. Greinke rekindled some animosity between Milwaukee and St. Louis before the NL championship series with comments about Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter, saying his Brewers teammates don’t much like the 2005 NL Cy Young Award winner. “They think his presence, his attitude out there sometimes is like a [...]

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Time To Re-Focus.

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Time To Re-Focus. As a collector of baseball cards and a lover of the sport, I am still as excited about the sport of baseball and the hobby of baseball card collecting today as I was as a ten-year old … Continue reading →

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Tigers force Game 6 in ALCS with 7-5 win (AP)

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Justin Verlander helped save Detroit’s season with a gutsy effort and the Tigers hit for a sudden cycle to break away from Texas in a 7-5 victory Thursday that cut the Rangers’ lead to 3-2 in the AL championship series. Delmon Young hit two of Detroit’s four homers and Miguel Cabrera had a tiebreaking double [...]

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Rangers ace Wilson roughed up in Game 5 (AP)

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Cases of celebratory beverages were loaded onto a truck Thursday night outside the Texas Rangers’ clubhouse. The bottles will have to stay on ice for a while. C.J. Wilson had a lot to do with that. The Texas lefty was tagged for six runs in another poor postseason start and the Detroit Tigers won 7-5, [...]

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Rumor: Rangers Prepared to Make Significant Bid
for CC Sabathia

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Reggie Jackson 2004 Donruss Classics Legendary
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Reggie Jackson 2004 Donruss Classics – Legendary Jerseys It’s not often that you find a modern card that stars Reggie Jackson in which he is not wearing the uniform of either the Oakland A’s or New York Yankees. So, when … Continue reading →

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LCS Doubleheader Open Thread

Root for the Tigers I guess...

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Yankees Shuffle Their 40-Man Roster

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