Hillary Clinton's odds of winning the Democratic presidential nomination are akin to the improbable run of the Colorado Rockies into the World Series last year.

That's according to a Chicago Tribune story [1] today that used baseball as a metaphor - and quoted a Denver-based consultant - to explain the state of the race between Clinton and Barack Obama.

"The Colorado Rockies won 21 of 22 games last year to claim the National League wild card and roll into the World Series. A Middlebury College professor put the odds of that feat at more than 190,000-1," wrote Jim Tankersley. "Clinton 'is probably facing something of that magnitude' to win the nomination, said Rick Ridder, a Democratic political consultant—and Rockies season-ticket holder—in Denver, who directed Clinton's Arizona primary campaign."