Back in 1961, a couple of Babe Ruth's records were broken within two weeks.  The first was Roger Maris hitting #61 on the last day of the season.  The second was Whitey Ford breaking the Babe's postseason scoreless innings streak.  It led Whitey Ford to say it was a bad year for the Babe.     Well, it was a bad year for the experts in 2016, from the Cubs to Mr. Trump winning the presidency. The experts were not just wrong about the election result.  They missed a bunch of other things, as Michael Barone wrote: The Trump campaign seems to have had a pretty good idea of what its Republican opponents and the Clinton campaign were up to, but the reverse was clearly not true. In post-election interviews Clinton campaign operatives were blaming their defeat on racism, the FBI director, the Russians. Mature adults would be seeking to understand how they had missed out on how the rules were changing. In the end, spending a ton of...(Read Full Post)