Seabiscuit for Pope

In the spirit of the Iowa Electronic Markets, I give you this.

[Via Jeffrey Tucker.]

Comments

[sage]

Damn, blocked by work filters. Guess I should work instead.

[Mo]

Come on Ortega. Your rise to the papacy would infuriate Castro and reopen Cuba.

[Syd]

I favor Sugarbush Squirrel. After all, he's got the robes.

[Xrlq]

Am I the only one who thinks that "Seabiscuit" sounds like what happens when somoeone goes for a swim in the ocean after consuming too much chili?

[Stretch]

Man, money is just pouring in on Ratzinger. Last I checked he was at 29-1. Good thing I decided to hold off on that bet.

[drf]

time for the next chief brainwasher to be sworn in.

xrlq: LOL. it's like that horse's brother, airbiscuit.

what about george-ringo. ba dum pum.

[tomhynes]

http://www.professorbainbridge.com/ points out that any Catholics who bet on the pope are automatically excommunicated. Are you trying to get all your readers to rot in hell for eternity Jesse?

[Isaac Bartram]

My first reaction was, godamn Brits'll bet on anything. Then I realized everybody'll bet on anything. It's just that on this issue the Brits have rejected the sick prohibitionist attitude we have here, and have allowed people to indulge a normal human pursuit in a relatively unencumbered environment.

Then it occurred to me there was no actual evidence it was a British site at all. But is does have that look of honest, guilt-free British bookmaking.

[Isaac Bartram]

LAST "is" should be "it"

[phocion]

Paddy Power had next-Pope betting for years before JPII even kicked the bucket. For some reason I'm not remotely surprised it was the Irish who decided to combine gambling and Catholicism.

[Jim Walsh]

"Seabiscuit for Pope"

I seem to recall having read a story once about a horse that was made Pope. No, really. Anyone?

[Stevo Darkly]

The Roman emperor Caligula once had a horse made a Senator to express his contempt for the Senate; you may be thinking of that.

By the way, last Sunday I was talking popes with my dad and my brother, and my brother said the guy chosen to be pope by the electing college of cardninals doesn't necessarily have to be a fellow bishop or even a priest. As it turns out, that's technically true -- a guy doesn't have to be a priest at the time he is named a candidate, he just has to be a baptized male. But if named pope, he has to be made a priest, and then a bishop, right away. Source.

(Apologies if this point is already made in the betting link above; I can't access it now.)