Curse Ball
If baseball is scripted, then the author of the Red Sox's come-from-way-behind win of the ALCS should rack up some awards. But what I am finding most amazing in the aftermath is how the science fiction world has come alive to baseball, with serious discussion and great humor. (Click on that second one for sure. It's worth it.) Who knew these people were baseball fans, too?
Yes, as a Cub fan, I will be rooting for the Red Sox, of course. Not just because of the curse thing, although I have always felt for the Red Sox fans, just as Boston fans feel for us Cub fans--we are partners in pain. Not just because I don't want to listen to Cardinals fans next year yelling about their WS championship and see Tony LaRussa strutting around like he's won the Nobel Prize for Baseball.
No, I'll be rooting for them because I wrote a short story that turns on the Red Sox being cursed--now that they are not cursed, the story will of course have to be shelved. See, but I also wrote one that depends on the Cubs being cursed. So if this is how it works, it's only a matter of time now . . .
Yes, as a Cub fan, I will be rooting for the Red Sox, of course. Not just because of the curse thing, although I have always felt for the Red Sox fans, just as Boston fans feel for us Cub fans--we are partners in pain. Not just because I don't want to listen to Cardinals fans next year yelling about their WS championship and see Tony LaRussa strutting around like he's won the Nobel Prize for Baseball.
No, I'll be rooting for them because I wrote a short story that turns on the Red Sox being cursed--now that they are not cursed, the story will of course have to be shelved. See, but I also wrote one that depends on the Cubs being cursed. So if this is how it works, it's only a matter of time now . . .
posted by Maines at 10:34 AM
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"now that they are not cursed"
As of this posting, 10/25/04, the curse is very much alive and in place. The sweet victory over the Yankees has in no way ended it, and the upcoming late collapse against the Cards shall only serve to strengthen its hold.
Dear Anonymous,
Probably this is just a big hoax then.
Okay, that link should have worked like this. But now I can add this and even this.
OK Becky, no hoax. But there must have been a nexus point sometime last night where parallel universes diverged, and somehow you and I wound up in the stranger one, where the Sox win the World Series. Is our universe better? I hope so, but I have to admit I haven't liked it very much of late. I think I'd rather live in a universe where the Sox continue to lose and no one thinks pre-emptive war is OK.
Yeah, I checked, and GWB is still president in this universe. Ah well, we can only wait and see what strange and wondrous things happen here in this world. Is it raining doughnuts yet?
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