In 1962, Casey Stengel, watching his Mets during one of the 120 games they would lose that year, asked, “Can’t anybody here play this game?” Since our current government has much in common with the 1962 Mets, I am taking this opportunity to bestow the first annual Casey Awards, for incompetence in government.
The first Casey, the Horace Clark Award, goes to Donald Rumsfeld. From 1965-1974, Horace Clarke played second base for the New York Yankees. This was the longest period of futility in Yankees history and, for many fans, it was the Horace Clarke Era. He was not the worst second baseman of all time, but he symbolized mediocrity.
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