A few years ago, I was at a conference in Washington DC that had nothing to do with baseball. As the conference ended and I prepared to make my way back to Union Station and then my home in New York, I said goodbye to a colleague from Georgia-the country not the state-and then, because it was pouring outside, zipped up my slicker and put my San Francisco Giants cap on before heading home (I have always been a fan of both the Giants and the Yankees). My colleague saw my cap an