Maybe now Bill Buckner's weary, wandering soul can rest

with a bad commute on the MBTA?

Coaklied or I pulled a Coakley is not to be used for just any "fail" situation. A Coakley is a situation where victory was all but assured but something was done, often in hubris, to cause victory to be lost.

This would be an acceptable Coakley situation if the trains were running on time all morning and the commuter was making great time only to have the train slow down at the very end. I think we need more information to know if this were a true Coakley situation or if it was still just a FAIL or a Buckner (Bill Buckner was a Yankee right?)

Let's say you look up the tracks and see 2 trains running back to back on the B Line. You figure that the front running one is probably going to go express around Packard's Corner and thus get to Government Center faster than the trailing one. So, even though the lagging train would be a much more comfortable ride, you still shove on with the rest of the party goers on the front train and roll the dice. Even if you reconsider, the second train gets redirected back to the BC railyard at the switch track...so you're now riding your only option going forward.

Now, the trouble begins. First, the train idles at Harvard Ave. It feels like you sit there for THREE WEEKS with the doors closed while the traffic signal cycles a few times and the conductor of this crazy train ride doesn't give out ANY announcements. It finally starts to move forward again, slowly, hitting stop signs and pedestrian crossings all the way to Packard's Corner...but hey, at least you're not outside, in the cold, near Fenway Park, shaking your hands (to keep warm).

When the train you're latched into gets you to Packard's Corner, you realize that there's a 57 bus coming from the west (along Brighton Ave). It's cruising. It has an ad for Ford F150 pickup trucks on the side. Your train is packed, but refuses to go express. Every block down the Commonwealth (Ave), your train stops and tries to recycle its power base...but ends up stalling. Meanwhile, the bus pulls up even with your train by around the BU student health clinic. For the past few blocks, people on your train have been jumping off and catching the 57 bus instead...and it's catching up even faster. You give up on the idea of getting to Government Center and just want to beat the 57 bus to Kenmore! As it actually passes you a bit, you notice that there's a furniture store ad on the back selling "Chairs for the People!"...an absurd ad, but you guess it sells.

As you start to head down blindly into the underground, you catch a fading glimpse of the 57 bus pulling into Kenmore.

You've just been Coakley'd.

A lot of people wondered how in the HELL Jar-Jar Binks could become a Senator of the Galactic Senate during the prequel trilogy.

His opponent in the election Coakley'd himself. That's how you get someone as inept as Jar-Jar Binks into the Senate.