Day: October 17, 2003

Issue #15 is out. What’d’ja think?

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And so the world can continue to turn peacefully on its axis, with no imminent threat of any so-called curses being broken. Let us consider the following:

1) By blowing the 7th game, the Sox spared us the sadness of watching them go to a Cub-less World Series. It would have been like arriving at the Prom and discovering your date had a flat tire and never made it. Here, it’s more like you and your date were driving along, had a blowout which sent you plummeting off a cliff to a fiery doom and thus never made it to the prom.

2) Had the Sox made to the Series, they likely would have lost. Losing to the Cubs would have been a big deal because, y’know, the Cubs would’ve won. Losing to the Marlins…who cares? The only way history would have been made in a Sox/Marlins game is if the Sox had won the first three games and everyone would have been saying, “Well, that’s it, no team has ever come back from a three-game deficit in a best-of-seven Series, it’s a lock,” at which point the Sox could have been the first team to blow a three game advantage. That would’ve been kind of cool.

3) If it had been a Cubs/Sox game…one of the teams would have lost their mystique. I mean, one of the things that’s so legendary about them is their constant inability to win. If one of them had won, they would have been reduced in status to a team that wins on rare occasions, and we’ve got a bunch of those. This way, parity remains between the AL and NL.

4) If it had been Cubs/Yankees, I would have felt compelled to watch, and thus suffer through another twenty showings per game of that dámņëd Visa Check cashing card commercial. Since it’s Yankees/Marlins, I can skip it and thus not have to be badgered by it anymore.

Thus ends the baseball blog entries for the year 2003.

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