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The World Turned Upside Down

Life in a post-Yankees universe.

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It reminds me of conversations I've had with an old atheist friend of mine. He has often quibbled with those who express the well-worn sentiment that "Everything happens for a reason." He doesn't believe things happen for any reason, and neither do I, though I am no atheist.

"But if you don't believe there is any reason for anything," he asks me, "how to believe in God?"

"Because God," I say, wincing through my Catholicism, "is mostly indifferent, I think."

Neither Red Sox nor Yankees fans have ever believed such a thing. But they both may have to start getting used to the idea.

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Paul Beston is associate editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal.

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