(While you're waiting for this Presidential race to unfold, we remind you of when the stakes of Joe Biden's wishes were a lot more light-hearted ... focused on the Red Sox.)
Former Vice-President Biden has undoubtedly done a lot of hoping and praying over the course of this week. Arizona. Pennsylvania. Nevada. Georgia.
Well, back in 2011 his focus was on pulling for the Red Sox.
The life-long Phillies fan had never really rooted for the Sox before that year's pennant race, and even went so far to explain his fandom when visiting Boston in 2014.
“Even though I’m not a Boston fan, I love you guys, man,” Biden said to a crowd during to commemorate the year-anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings.
He added, "I know politicians aren't supposed to say that, that they’re not a Red Sox fan, but where I came from, the neighborhood I was in, if you were a Red Sox fan, you got the living hell kicked out of you – there was a good reason not to be a Red Sox fan."
But three years earlier Biden had good reason to pull for the Red Sox during their run at the postseason. The head of his secret service was a diehard Sox fan.
Describing his airplane's late September descent into Boston, the then Vice-President said, “I said everyone bow their head. We’re going to say a prayer that Boston wins the wild card spot. … I’m worried if in fact they don’t, he’s going to be so damn miserable he will not jump in front of a bullet.”
In that case, of course, Biden's prayers were not answered with the Red Sox punctuating their historic 2011 collapse with a season-ending loss to the Orioles.