Tom DeLay is indicted, the Red Sox lose, and the Yankees retake first place…on the same day. Coincidence? I think not.

Humor me, if you would, while I make a modest suggestion.

One of the many reasons I dislike the Sox is that, although they play in leftie Massachusetts, they are actually a Red State team. They have the most evangelical Christians of any team in baseball, even as they date college students (she’s a freshman?) and marry strippers. They are proudly anti-intellectual, calling themselves “the idiots.” They campaign for George W. Bush.

So isn’t it just possible that the fate of the Sox and the fate of the Republican Party are linked? And that the heavens have turned against both?

I know the season isn’t over. I know anything can happen, and overconfidence is a recipe for disaster. But I can still hope, right? Hope that just maybe this time, for once, God is on our side.