Shot in the Dark

I Don’t Make The Rules

There is no Berg’s Law I want more to repeal than the Fourth. 

To wit:

A Minnesota sports team may be a contender until the moment the local media (and political class) actually believes they will be contenders. At that moment – be it spring training, late November in the NFL season, or week 72 of the NHL playoffs – the season will fall irredeemably apart.

But…well, you know where this is going, right?

For the past week, the Minnesota media has been yammering away, not merely that the Timberwolves had potential to go all the way to the NBA Championship, but that it seemed likely.   

On top of that, sports pundits also predicted the Minnesota Frost women’s pro hockey team was likely to get a repeat championship.  

Is anyone seeing a problem, here, yet? Anyone but me?

Yes, I know.  They were just the first games of five game series.   The Twolves and Frost can still pull it out.

Hypothetically.

And only if the entire Twin Cities media figures out that they’re dealing with forces they can not comprehend.  

I don’t make the rules.  Berg’s Law does. 

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3 responses to “I Don’t Make The Rules”

  1. Pig Bodine Avatar
    Pig Bodine

    Berg’s Law 4(b) should read:

    Minnesota GOP campaigns may be ontenders until the moment the local media (and political class) actually believes they will win the majority of local, state, or federal elective offices. At that moment the campaign will fall irredeemably apart.
    Happens with frightening regularity!

  2. Mitch Berg Avatar
    Mitch Berg

    PB,

    A friend who worked on a number of Quixotic GOP campaigns put it more like this: “there comes a moment, a month or so before the election, when you actually start to think we are gonna pull this off!. And then election night comes, and you’ve gort 46%.

    I remember one CD5 Congressional candidate who had that same feeling – and was visibly stunned, completely destroyed, on election night when Ilhan Omar got 80+% of the vote. He’s actually believed that feeling.

    I mean, if you don’t believe in miracles, what’s the point of being a conservative in the city?

    So it’s not so much the media – they’re never going to encourage the GOP.

    But it’s when insiders start actually thinking this might work.

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