"Yankee Fan Go Home"--George Will on Mrs. Clinton

Mr. Will might've chosen the headline anyway, but Mrs. Clinton gave him an assist . From his Washington Post column, 5/8/08:

• "Hillary Clinton, 60, Illinois native and Arkansas lawyer, became, retroactively, a lifelong Yankee fan at age 52 when, shopping for a U.S. Senate seat, she adopted New York state as home sweet home. She may think, or at least would argue, that when she was 12 her Yankees really won the 1960 World Series, by standards of "fairness," because they trounced the Pirates in runs scored, 55-27, over seven games, so there.

Unfortunately, baseball's rules -- pesky nuisances, rules -- say it matters how runs are distributed during a World Series. The Pirates won four games, which is the point of the exercise, by a total margin of seven runs, while the Yankees were winning three by a total of 35 runs. You can look it up."....

• "Yankee Fan Go Home," by George Will from his Washington Post column, 5/8/08

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