McCain Town Hall with Curt Schilling

John McCain just confirmed what at least a few people were already thinking about his partner on the stage. Schilling just deftly deflected a question about what would have happened if Alex Rodriguez had come to Boston, first with some humor -- "Is there any New York media here?" -- and then with self-deprecation -- "I've said some things I regret," though that was just the bubble wrap around a point: "No one player on a team will ever be worth the sum of its parts."

Chuckled McCain: "I'm beginning to think Curt has a future in politics."

It didn't take five minutes for someone to follow up with a plea, "Will you be my next senator from Massachusetts?" For the record, he said he's going to win another World Series and then... we'll see.

UPDATE: Just finished up. The possibility of a McCain-Schilling run was really the only piece of news made this evening, though it was, by town hall standards, fairly substantive -- for every, "Between us, will you tell me what planet is Manny really from?" directed to Schilling, there was a "What is the definition of victory in Iraq?" directed to McCain. Sometimes by the same person. And, by the way, the answer to the first question was "The planet of World Series Champions." The answer to the second -- "a continuation of what's succeeding now" -- was less clear-cut.