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CONVENTIONAL WISDOM.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 20-SEP-04

Author: McGrath, Ben
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COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.

This week, the pennant race enters the homestretch, as the underdog Boston Red Sox, with their long hair and their mud-encrusted helmets, come to New York to try to catch the incumbent (and clean-shaven) Yankees. By now, thanks to the Democratic and Republican Conventions in Boston and New York and to the current Major League standings, the political analogies are entrenched, if not altogether precise: the Red Sox are Democrats, and the Yankees the G.O.P. Strictly from a management perspective, the Red Sox are progressives, with a front office resembling an activist judiciary, jettisoning tradition at the recommendation of intellectual elites with little practical hardball...

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