A truly terrifying conundrum for a Red Sox fan

Posted By Daniel W. Drezner Thursday, October 22, 2009 - 2:11 PM Share

[I]s the sacrifice of 58,000 Americans worth a bad Yankee team?

The answer is obviously yes.

This is a question that could tear apart the nation... Red Sox Nation, that is.

More here. I really don't think this is anything more than a coincidence, and I certainly don't agree with the blogger's estimation of Lyndon Johnson.

Still, if one wanted to develop a completely unsubstantiated hypothesis, however, one could posit that the explanation for this correlation is that under a GOP president, the mercurial owner of the Yankees faced fewer contraints to ~~royally f**k up~~ interfere in the management of the team, resulting in some spectacular flame-outs on the diamond.

It's not true, of course, but it's a more entertaining urban myth than Obama's citizenship status or Bush's role in the 9/11 attacks.

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ERIK LOOMIS

9:10 PM ET

October 22, 2009

I think it should be

I think it should be abundantly clear that I don't actually believe Yankee domination during Democratic administrations anything more than a coincidence and that I don't actually believe that a bad Yankees team is worth 58,000 American lives. But I'm not sure that it is in fact clear that this is only intended to be a humorous post.