Whoopsie daisy
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When the April 6, 1987 editions of Sports Illustrated hit newsstands and mailboxes across the country, Joe Carter and Cory Snyder graced the cover in front a Chief Wahoo logo with the words, “Believe it! Cleveland is the best team in the American League.”
For those not old enough to remember that famous SI cover, and arguably the most off-base prediction in sports history, such a claim by the No. 1 sports publication in America 25 years ago was equally shocking and surprising to an Indians fan base starved for a winner.
If ever the so-called SI cover jinx had merit, this was Exhibit A, or least close to it. The 1987 Indians were the magazine’s pick to win the AL pennant, and by the end of the season, the Tribe was a major-league worst 61-101.
General-admission tickets at Cleveland Municipal Stadium were $2 that season, and by the end of it, those tickets couldn’t be given away.
Nine months ago:
(pregnant pause)
Taking into account name recognition, Trump’s net favorability rating (favorable minus unfavorable) of -32 percentage points stands out for its pure terribleness at this point in the campaign. Like his unfavorable rating, it is by far the worst of the 106 presidential candidates since 1980 who are in our database.
For this reason alone, Trump has a better chance of cameoing in another “Home Alone” movie with Macaulay Culkin — or playing in the NBA Finals — than winning the Republican nomination.