I want Cardinal Dolan, he has an awesome personality amongst other things.
The latest line from an Internet gambling site that I mentioned previously has Cardinal Marc Ouellet as the 7:2 favorite now. Cardinal Turkson is up to 4:1, and Cardinal Arinze is 6:1. Cardinal Dolan is
40:1. Maybe I can convince my wife to put her money where her mouth is . . . literally!
Just some background--the last time I tried this was 10 years ago, when I ran my lab's NCAA Men's Basketball pool. She handed me her sheet, and I looked at her national champion, and shouted out, "
Syracuse? What the
**** did you pick
Syracuse for????" And I had a good laugh.
Fast forward almost three weeks, as the Syracuse Orangemen were beating the Kansas Jayhawks in the title game . . . at the end of that game, I said, "It's a sign of the End Of The World!" My wife let me know that she had picked Syracuse . . . an average of
every hour for the next
three weeks. Remember, there's 24 of those hour thingys in a day. An average of once an hour for 24 times 21 total times. She'd wake me up at night to tell me, "I picked Syracuse!" She'd call me at work--repeatedly throughout the day--and say, "I picked Syracuse!"
I don't think that I'd laugh at her pick now. It's highly unlikely that Cardinal Dolan would ever be elected.