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2004-10-21 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by OldSpook 2004-10-21 12:01:22 AM|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Link's hosed.

Posted by PBMcL 2004-10-21 12:03:05 AM|| 2004-10-21 12:03:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 No better way to win than doing the impossible against your most hated rival - and pinning the 2004 NY Yankees as the biggest chokers of all time in baseball!

Congrats to the Red Sox - now all you gotta do is win the series....

Posted by OldSpook 2004-10-21 12:03:10 AM|| 2004-10-21 12:03:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 My bad - typo'd the link (htpp vice http)

Posted by OldSpook 2004-10-21 12:08:44 AM|| 2004-10-21 12:08:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 That was definately shocking. Especially with Johnny Damon coming up so big, after having such a lousy series. Congrats to the Red Sox.

Posted by Destro 2004-10-21 12:11:54 AM|| 2004-10-21 12:11:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 The evil empire may be defeated, but the curse isn't lifted till they hoist the World Championship banner over Fenway. I remember 1986 all too well.

Posted by Steve 2004-10-21 12:18:03 AM|| 2004-10-21 12:18:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 What happened that year?

Re: The Curse -- will it be broken if the NCLS winner trounces the Red Sox? (As unlikely as that seems, based on what I've seen.) Or will it simply be a happy memory that, well ...

Seriously, I don't know.

Posted by Edward Yee 2004-10-21 12:43:45 AM|| [http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2004-10-21 12:43:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Steve - yep. The ghost of the Bambino will be angry, and Halloween is almost upon us...

Posted by PBMcL 2004-10-21 12:44:33 AM|| 2004-10-21 12:44:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Too bad the Cubs didn't make it in, the curse would have been broken for sure -- for one team, at least.

Posted by Steve White 2004-10-21 12:45:36 AM|| 2004-10-21 12:45:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 What is this baseball and this curse you speak of?

SPoD runs like hell.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-21 1:47:38 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-10-21 1:47:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 The next task is to break the curse of the Bambino off the Hub once and for & win the World Series.

This winter might be a real cold one in Bean Town, but victory will make Bostonians feel warm through each & every snowstorm.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-10-21 3:11:58 AM|| 2004-10-21 3:11:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Background on the Bambino:

For the Red Sox, it all began in 1920, when then-Sox owner Harry Frazee simply needed money to finance his girlfriend's play. As a result, he sold his best player, George Herman Ruth (aka Babe Ruth), to the New York Yankees for a measly $100,000.

The Yankees had won no Championships prior to acquiring Ruth, while the Sox won four, but since then, the Yanks have won a monumental 26 World Championships, on their way to becoming arguably the greatest franchise in all of professional sports.

As for the Red Sox, they've won a grand total of zero. While it is true that Boston has made four trips to the World Series since the famous transaction, they've lost each of those in the deciding Game Seven.

One side note; Boston's other baseball team until 1952, The Boston Braves, won the World Series in 1914.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-10-21 3:36:22 AM|| 2004-10-21 3:36:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Mark I was kidding! I know what the curse of the Babino is. I hope the Sox win and Kerry loses!

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-21 3:56:22 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-10-21 3:56:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Curse, smersh. Most of the Red Soxes troubles have been self inflicted. The last team in Baseball to intergrate, the continual effort ot build a team that can win in Fenway ignoring the fact that you play half your games somewhere else, suspect pitching staffs, bad managerial decisions. But that siad its been a great post season. Game Seven tonight in St. Louis and I hope the Rocket burns the Red Birds

Posted by Cheaderhead 2004-10-21 6:27:45 AM|| 2004-10-21 6:27:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 Maybe a another Cards Red Sox Series? The last one was still played in daytime. I was sick and had to stay home from school. BTW 18 inches from a 100 watt bulb is the thermal optimum for a Johnson brand mercury thermometer, that'll get you 99.5 F.... just right.

Maybe Bob Gibson can do color or mid relief.

Posted by Shipman 2004-10-21 7:36:36 AM|| 2004-10-21 7:36:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 What happened that year?

The 1986 Red Sox, led by a fireballing righthander from Texas named Roger Clemens, came within one strike of winning the World Series but lost Game 6 after a stunning series of events. This included first baseman Bill Buckner having the winning run score on a ball hit right to him, which he let go through his legs. Buckner endured years of taunts and harassment as a result of the error, and eventually was given so much grief in Boston that he moved his family to Idaho.

Posted by Steve 2004-10-21 8:15:48 AM|| 2004-10-21 8:15:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 My neighbor's from Boston, says the curse is lifted. Doesn't matter what they do in the series. Greatest comeback in sports history imho. Even beats my Tigers in '68 coming back from 3-1 against the St.Louis Cards w/the dreaded Bob Gibson. Even Bucky F'n Dent throwing out the first pitch couldn't help the Yanks this time.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-10-21 9:14:49 AM|| 2004-10-21 9:14:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 May 10,000 shrieking demons follow George & Co around for the next year.

Posted by Whoop Ass 2004-10-21 9:16:15 AM|| 2004-10-21 9:16:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 Too bad the Cubs didn't make it in, the curse would have been broken for sure -- for one team, at least.

Are you mad!? Do you want the world to end?

Posted by Charles 2004-10-21 9:19:43 AM|| 2004-10-21 9:19:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 WS Prediction: Sox lose and Boston becomes Jonestown II

Posted by Frank G 2004-10-21 9:41:58 AM|| 2004-10-21 9:41:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#20 Frank, was that prediction for the World Series or for last night's game?

Posted by Jarhead 2004-10-21 9:44:58 AM|| 2004-10-21 9:44:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#21 WS - World Series. They're too high emotionally now and will be spent after that many extra-inning games...the curse still lives!

Posted by Frank G 2004-10-21 9:50:19 AM|| 2004-10-21 9:50:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#22 Consider this -- like the presidential election, this could be Texas vs Mass. ----

Being from Texas, I, of course, have favorites in both!

Posted by Sherry 2004-10-21 10:00:42 AM|| 2004-10-21 10:00:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#23 Sox lose and Boston becomes Jonestown II

Nah. After watching them for 40 years, you learn to deal with it. Best part of last night was seeing the Yankee fans in the stands with "the look". It beat seeing it in the mirror for once.
I'm hoping this is the team. I like their chances, mainly because they appear too goofy to be intimidated by anybody. I'm half expecting Manny to show up at Yankee Stadium tonight for the eighth game.

Posted by tu3031 2004-10-21 10:28:45 AM|| 2004-10-21 10:28:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#24 lol! fair enough, tu!

Posted by Frank G 2004-10-21 10:32:11 AM|| 2004-10-21 10:32:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#25 I was hoping NY would lose. Just to prove that spending a huge wad of cash to buy the priciest players is no guarantee that the end result will be achieved.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-10-21 10:48:10 AM|| 2004-10-21 10:48:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#26 B-A-R, I think the Detroit Pistons already proved that against the Chokers, er, I mean Lakers.

Frank, WS prediction a little early imho, considering we don't know who the Sox are going to face yet and that the NLCS has been emotional and going 7 games as well.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-10-21 11:04:03 AM|| 2004-10-21 11:04:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#27 Speaking of baseball...NHL players are on strike. Yeah, I didn't think you cared either :)

Posted by Rafael 2004-10-21 11:04:27 AM|| 2004-10-21 11:04:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#28 Raf, lucky for the networks that both series went 7 and were so dramatic. Hockey's not an issue, yet.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-10-21 11:10:24 AM|| 2004-10-21 11:10:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#29 Sooooooooo, the Yankees have now become the only baseball team in history to blow a 3 - 0 lead in post season. Truly there is some justice in the universe.

Posted by Weird Al 2004-10-21 11:46:44 AM|| 2004-10-21 11:46:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#30 The good news is that this was the Best! ALCS! Ever!

The bad news is that the Kerry crew is going to push the Sox = Kerry, Yankees = Bush meme and try to sell it as the metaphor for the election. If that meme catches on, it will become the solemn duty of the Sox, for the good of the nation and of the civilized world, to lose the Series to the team from Texas in four straight.

(Don't flame me, Sox fans; I live near Cleveland. You think the Curse of the Bambino is something to cry about? It pales in comparison to The Curse of Rocky Colavito!)

Posted by Mike 2004-10-21 11:53:04 AM|| 2004-10-21 11:53:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#31 I had the most fun last year watching the Marlins, who had 1/3 of the payroll of the Yankees, steal the Series. This year is just icing on the cake!

Posted by Dar 2004-10-21 11:53:14 AM|| 2004-10-21 11:53:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#32 I'm a Padres fan so mark my carping down to jealousy, or as in the Sox/Yankee payroll parade, schadenfreude when they lose

Posted by Frank G 2004-10-21 11:57:20 AM|| 2004-10-21 11:57:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#33 NHL players are on strike.

I wish there was a minor league hockey team closer to here than Fresno. Even though I play in a pickup league, I'd like to see a bona fide hockey game in person, if not on the tube. I only watched the last couple of BOS/NY games because I thought there was a good chance that NY could bite it big time. :)

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-10-21 1:23:59 PM|| 2004-10-21 1:23:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#34 PBMcL-
Given the shoddy way the Bambino was treated by the Yankees' front office in his declining years, he's probably sitting back somewhere laughing his ass off. If I was Joe Torre, I'D be concerned about the shade of Lou Gerhig coming back from the Other Side with a Louisville Slugger and an itch to use it on some overpaid idiots.
Aside to Mike from 'Near Cleveland' - I grew up within earshot of Lakefront Stadium. Always believed that someone should have engraved "Wait 'Till NEXT Year!!" on the E. 9th St overpass.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-10-21 2:23:29 PM|| 2004-10-21 2:23:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#35 Thank God the Red Sox won. There can only be ONE "Massacheusetts Miracle" annually, so g'bye sKerry!

Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-10-21 2:26:02 PM|| 2004-10-21 2:26:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#36 It's now the "Curse of the Hildabeast"

from BOTW today (scroll to near botom):
The Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees last night in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series. The Sox will face either the Houston Astros or the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series. But the Yankees, who won the first three games in the series before going to lose four straight, had more runs in the series (45-41), which means the Sox may have a pennant, but they lack a mandate.

The Yanks last won a World Series in 2000, defeating the New York Mets in five games. Since then it's been a series of disappointments:

2001: Lost World Series to Arizona Diamondbacks in seven games.
2002: Lost Division Series to Anaheim Angels in four.
2003: Lost World Series to Florida Marlins in four.
2004: Lost Championship Series to Red Sox in seven.
What happened since the Yankees lost their last World Series? New York elected Hillary Clinton, an Illinois native who had falsely declared herself a "lifelong Yankees fan," to the Senate. After this offense, it seems, even having the Republican Convention in New York was not enough to appease the baseball gods.

Posted by Frank G 2004-10-21 6:11:14 PM|| 2004-10-21 6:11:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#37 Al Leiter - get a job.

Posted by Joe Morgan 2004-10-21 6:17:55 PM|| 2004-10-21 6:17:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#38 I'm sure most of you have visited the MLB home page, but if not, go there! If you have a high-speed connection, there's a trove of great videos of highlights, news, et al. All other major sports should really take a lesson from MLB's site.

Posted by Dar 2004-10-21 6:31:30 PM|| 2004-10-21 6:31:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#39 LOL Frank!

Posted by Shipman 2004-10-21 8:15:29 PM|| 2004-10-21 8:15:29 PM|| Front Page Top

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