The Popcorn Stand: Sanders is like that losing coach who won’t give up

This may offend some (but not all) Bernie Sanders supporters, but in my time as a sports guy I would enter the gym hoping to time my entrance perfectly just as the varsity basketball game was beginning. But to my dismay, the junior varsity game would still be going on with one team down by 20 points with less than a minute to go. And with everybody waiting for the varsity game, the coach of the JV team down by 20 points would call timeout. Sanders is that JV coach.

Hillary Clinton has become the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, but Sanders has called timeout, still playing in a game he should know he can’t win. To be fair, Sanders is showing some signs of bowing out.

I know some (but not all) Sanders supporters would say the game was rigged. The commissioner, Debbie Wasserman Schulz, supported Clinton. Uh, yeah.

Debbie Wasserman Schulz has been Don King and Clinton has been her Muhammad Ali. But Ken Norton knew when he fought Ali in a close fight, the decision would be given to Ali.

Sanders isn’t Norton. He’s Chuck Wepner.

The consensus is Sanders is going to realize the Democratic Party race has just been the junior varsity game and he should move aside to make way for the varsity game between Clinton and Donald Trump — the general election. The question is when.

— Charles Whisnand