Thursday, October 21, 2004

War and sports analogies

We're still waiting to see the first analysis of what went wrong for the New York Yankees in their historic collapse to the Boston Red Sox that blames their catastrophic success in winning the first three games, setting up Boston to win the final four. But maybe sports writers, who unlike political pundits are expected to know their stuff, realise that they'd never get away with such a lame piece of ex post rationalization.

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