Breaking The Curse kills again...
Oct. 31st, 2005 12:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
varropdxBefore I comment on George W. Bush's nomination of wingnut Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, I must also comment on a deadly trend: how the breaking of baseball championship curses kills people.
My father-in-law was a Red Sox fan. He went through his entire life seeing debacles like Enos Slaughter racing home from first on a single in 1946 World Series, Bucky Dent hitting a crushing home run in a playoff game against the Yankees in 1978, and Bill Buckner's fumbling of a ground ball a Little Leaguer could have handled in the 1986 World Series.
Lo and behold, the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004, in convincing fashion. The Red Sox won 8 straight games, including the World Series in 4 straight, to win their first championship since 1918.
This was in late October. On December 18, my father-in-law died.
This year, it was the Chicago White Sox winning their first World Series since 1917. Former White Sox manager Al Lopez, 97, saw the Sox sweep the Astros. He died yesterday.
There are many elderly Cub fans and former Cubs who should be very carefully watching their health next year.
My father-in-law was a Red Sox fan. He went through his entire life seeing debacles like Enos Slaughter racing home from first on a single in 1946 World Series, Bucky Dent hitting a crushing home run in a playoff game against the Yankees in 1978, and Bill Buckner's fumbling of a ground ball a Little Leaguer could have handled in the 1986 World Series.
Lo and behold, the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004, in convincing fashion. The Red Sox won 8 straight games, including the World Series in 4 straight, to win their first championship since 1918.
This was in late October. On December 18, my father-in-law died.
This year, it was the Chicago White Sox winning their first World Series since 1917. Former White Sox manager Al Lopez, 97, saw the Sox sweep the Astros. He died yesterday.
There are many elderly Cub fans and former Cubs who should be very carefully watching their health next year.
