In a stroke of marketing madness and in an attempt to wed two of America’s favorite pasttimes, Upper Deck has released its “Presidential Predictors” series of baseball cards. Each card depicts one of the current candidates on a baseball card, equating them to a famous baseball player or event.

It seems that someone at Upper Deck is a GOP apologist. Fred Thompson as Babe Ruth, John McCain as Ted Williams and Barack Obama as…Jermaine Dye? What gives? At least he fared better than Senator Clinton, whom Upper Deck portrayed as Morganna, the Kissing Bandit. Yikes! Thankfully, Upper Deck pulled the Hillary / Morganna card before it circulated. But can you imagine how much that baby would fetch on EBay? Move over, Honus.

You know, I had a Michael Dukakis rookie card when I was a kid, but I put it in the spokes of my bike and now it’s worthless.

My question is: what kind of stats do they put on the back? “Last season, Senator Clinton led the league in appropriations for energy and water development. And triples.”