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Thursday, October 19, 2006
The Mets lose
Well, they had a good year, and Oliver Perez apparently pitched well in Game 7, and the new Cardinal closer, Wainwright, has an absolutely vicious curveball.
What fascinates me is that the Mets won the Sixth Game (as in 1986) but lost the Seventh, while the Cardinals-Tigers series followed the exactly same pattern as 1968 . . . until the Tigers failed to rally in Game Five and lost. This shows that history does not always repeat itself. What this proves, I'm not sure, but somehow it is comforting.
I am the Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation at New York University Law School. My research mainly emphasizes tax policy, government transfers, budgetary measures, social insurance, and entitlements reform. My most recent books are (1) Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009) and (2) Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Toward Bankruptcy (2006). My other books include Do Deficits Matter? (1997), When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity (2000), Making Sense of Social Security Reform (2000), Who Should Pay for Medicare? (2004), Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Towards Bankruptcy (2006), Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009), and Fixing the U.S. International Tax Rules (forthcoming). I am also the author of a novel, Getting It. I am married with two children (boys aged 24 and 21) as well as three cats. For my wife Pat's quilting blog, see Patwig’s Blog.
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What fascinates me is that the Mets won the Sixth Game (as in 1986) but lost the Seventh, while the Cardinals-Tigers series followed the exactly same pattern as 1968 . . . until the Tigers failed to rally in Game Five and lost. This shows that history does not always repeat itself. What this proves, I'm not sure, but somehow it is comforting.
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