I'm not much for baseball, unless it's our local farm club team, which I've been known to go and watch in the summers.They play in a ratty stadium, and they're not too good, but that's not what going to the game's about. Of course, if the Washington Senators arise from the mists of history, I might start caring about the majors again, but until then, this'll have to do.

Meanwhile, I'm subjected to the fanatical devotions of the NRO crowd to the New York Yankees. Rich Lowry, I'm talking to you. Yeah, I'm not big on baseball, but I loathe the Yankees. Why? Is it because they're from the city of New York? Possibly. Is it because they're named Yankees? Very good chance. Or is it because, like the Atlanta Braves or the Dallas Cowboys in the 1990s, you're being told that a team whose home is a single city, is somehow "America's Team"? We have a winner, folks. I really resent being instructed as to who "my" team is.

As a result, the application of Nixonian geopolitical principles to something other than geopolitics leads to a whacked-out result. In this case, I'm in the ranks with Doris Kearns Goodwin and a lot of other noxious liberal types, by liking, for sheer spite on the part of Lowry and others, the Boston Red Sox.

Shannen Coffin, an NRO contributor, is somewhat in the same bucket, although he's an authentic Boston fan. Read his article, the piece that spurred me to write this vituperative jag, by clicking here.

Shannen, another East Coast conservative stands beside you. Even if he has to be told what's going on on the field.

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