So I walked into the office Thursday and one of my colleagues, Aaron Suttles, said, "Hey, did you see Stewart Mandel stole your idea about sending a book to the President-elect?"What?
Really?
Here's what he wrote for the SI.com mailbag (the link is at the bottom):
I have requested that my publisher send you a copy of my 2007 book, "Bowls, Polls and Tattered Souls: Tackling the Chaos and Controversy That Reign Over College Football." (Incidentally, if anyone from the Obama staff is reading this, we could sure use your help with an appropriate mailing address.) The first chapter describes in detail the deeply entrenched stalemate that exists among college football's various power-brokers, resulting in the current, admittedly flawed BCS system. It is a situation with which you are presumably all too familiar.
In the book, I compare college football's eternal postseason debate to "... the political stalemates of Capitol Hill. You have your congressmen (the conference commissioners and athletic directors), your senators (university presidents and chancellors), your lobbyists (the bowl games, the smaller-conference schools), and your fundraisers (the television networks), each exercising their respective influence on the decision-making process while at the same time seeking to protect their own best interests."
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/stewart_mandel/11/19/cfb.mailbag/index.html
What can I say, great minds think alike.
Stewart, if any of your people are reading this, here's what you do: Send it to his Senate office, which will remain open for another month or so and aid with the transition. The address is: United States Senate, 713 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington DC 20510-1305.
I encourage you to mail it yourself if for no other reason the look you'll get at the post office for sending something addressed to "President-elect Barack Obama."
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