There’s been a lot of loose pro-Red Sox talk around here. And, frankly, I think it’s galling that it should fall to me to push back on this nonsense. Lowry and McCarthy seem to have succumbed to a sports variant of the no enemies on the right phenomena. For shame. All decent people not living in Massachusetts agree that the curse should never have been lifted. And the fact that Shannen Coffin disagrees is glorious testimony in favor of that proposition.

But even if you dispute that (as impossible as that might be within the bounds of morality and logic), everyone can agree that it was an affront to all that is right and good when the New York Times editorially endorsed the Red Sox over the New York Yankees, as I argued in one of my favorite columns years ago.