DANIEL DREZNER distinguishes “Red Sox conservatives” from “Cubs conservatives.”

I was a big Red Sox fan from my childhood days in Boston (the Yaz era) until 1986, at which point I concluded that absent a change in the rules of baseball the Red Sox couldn’t possibly come any closer to winning the World Series while still blowing it. That removed the suspense factor, and I just haven’t been able to get interested since. . . .