"I'm becoming a big Knicks fan," the first lady responded, laughing.
"More and more every day, huh?" Couric parried.
And then a sleepy-eyed nation collectively hurled.
Later, Clinton asserted that she'd "always been a Yankees fan." Couric correctly challenged her, saying she thought the first lady, a native of Illinois, was a Chicago Cubs fan.
"I am a Cubs fan," Clinton said. "But I needed an American League team . . . so as a young girl, I became very interested and enamored of the Yankees."
If the first lady's campaign advisers are smart, they will urge her to "distance" herself from the Cubs, who haven't won a World Series since, oh, the Mesozoic Era. Even with spectacular slugger Sammy Sosa, the Cubs seem destined to always be "Lovable Losers"--baseball's equivalent of Hubert Humphrey.