I missed this commentary on the Almost-but-not-quite-the-most-boring-sport to watch, Baseball, and the significant World Series event of Late October and Early November.

It marked the end of what I, and others have called, the Hillary Clinton Curse.

The Defending Champion Philadelphia Phillies lost to the New York Yankees, to give the Yankees their first World Series championship in this millennium.

Why is this event so important, in the history of Baseball?

Many have called this slump the Yankee Curse, but what was the cause.
Some suggested that 9/11 was the cause, I disagreed.
Others said it was the addition of A-Rod as Third Baseman. I disagreed.
I agreed with James Taranto on the term of the Hillary Clinton Curse. As she carpetbagged her way into the New York Senate Seat. And now that she has vacated said seat, the Yankees win again. (Coincidence, I think not.)

James Taranto has accepted credit for his prognostication:

The Curse, Reversed
We’re more of a football fan, but still, as a New Yorker we feel as if things have returned to normal. The New York Yankees last night won Game 6 of the World Series to defeat the Philadelphia Female Horses. It’s the first championship for the Yanks since 2000. Of course, just weeks after that series, Hillary Clinton became a senator from New York state, a position in which she served until early this year, when she left to be Barack Obama’s low-profile secretary of state.

Turns out we were right: Mrs. Clinton cursed the Yankees. Though reader Jorge Souss has another theory:

Since the Yankees won their first pennant (1921), every Democratic president except Lyndon Johnson has presided over two or more Yankee world championships. And during the past 50 years, the Yankees have won eight World Series in the 20 years in which a Democrat occupied the White House and have not won a single championship in the 30 years in which a Republican was president. During the past half century, the Yankees have won 40% of the time when a Democrat is president and 0% of the time when a Republican is president.

So it should not have surprised you that the Yankees have not won a World Series since October 2000. As Democrats reminded us every time something wasn’t exactly as we wanted between 2001 and 2009, “It’s Bush’s fault!” I believe that you owe Secretary Clinton an apology. And when the Yankees defeated the Phillies, Arlen Specter had nothing to do with it. President Obama won it for the Yankees merely by showing up (as he did with the Nobel Prize).

C’mon, what could the party in the White House possibly have to do with the Yankees? That’s just superstition!

I don’t expect you will find this factoid in the Sports Almanacs.