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2016 MLB Season - Curses, foiled again?

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joecct said:
Don't blame Red Sox fans who died with team in the decades prior to 2004. Blame the &%&$%5/%#!!!$## Pink Hats and the nouveau fans who think it is cool to root for the Sox while immersed in their cell phone.
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Everybody has those people, I don't even call them "fans."

I entered Boston in 1988 with great affection for the city, the Bruins, and the Red Sox. By the time I left it in 1993 the population of Boston had fallen below Philly as far as I was concerned.

I've mellowed a little since then, I mean, how can you completely hate a fanbase that has roots in college hockey? So now they're above Philly in my estimation. But good god, the "second city" mentality of Boston is so painfully irritating I can't imagine what Chicago did to steal that title from them. You can't wax rhapsodic about what in the end amounts to a bunch of racist morons in Southie.
 
Kepler said:
Everybody has those people, I don't even call them "fans."

I entered Boston in 1988 with great affection for the city, the Bruins, and the Red Sox. By the time I left it in 1993 the population of Boston had fallen below Philly as far as I was concerned.

I've mellowed a little since then, I mean, how can you completely hate a fanbase that has roots in college hockey? So now they're above Philly in my estimation. But good god, the "second city" mentality of Boston is so painfully irritating I can't imagine what Chicago did to steal that title from them. You can't wax rhapsodic about what in the end amounts to a bunch of racist morons in Southie.
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Dad moved the business from NYC to Westwood, MA in 1979. He was considered an outsider until one day when they noticed that my Mom was Irish and Dad was Fordham '40 & '52 (JD). Then he was "one of them". Horsebleep. He was Mrs. Yawkey's hired gun from NY and it never changed.

Boston may say they're liberal, but underneath the veneer is a very parochial narrow minded mindset, where outsiders are not to be trusted and shrines to Louise Day Hicks are common.
 
ShirtlessBob said:
Happy Anniversary, Steve Bartman. 13 years ago today, you and Moises Alou went for the same foul ball.
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I refuse to believe that an inconsequential play like that caused the Cubs to completely sh*t their pants for the rest of the inning.

Had Alex Gonzalez not duffed a routine double play two batters later, the Cubs, would have *at a minimum* made the force out of Pudge at second to make the inning 3-1 Cubs, 2 Outs, Runners at the corners. Lee doubles it's now 3-2 with Miggy at third. Farnsworth can still walk Lowell to out runners at the corners to get to Conine. Conine pops out to end the inning. Cubs escape the eighth with a 3-2 lead.

And even if you don't accept Alex Gonzalez making his boneheaded play, the Cubs had a whole game to play still the next night!!

The Cubs weren't cursed. They were just inept. The curse was a cutesy marketing gimmick after a while.
 
aparch said:
I refuse to believe that an inconsequential play like that caused the Cubs to completely sh*t their pants for the rest of the inning.

Had Alex Gonzalez not duffed a routine double play two batters later, the Cubs, would have *at a minimum* made the force out of Pudge at second to make the inning 3-1 Cubs, 2 Outs, Runners at the corners. Lee doubles it's now 3-2 with Miggy at third. Farnsworth can still walk Lowell to out runners at the corners to get to Conine. Conine pops out to end the inning. Cubs escape the eighth with a 3-2 lead.

And even if you don't accept Alex Gonzalez making his boneheaded play, the Cubs had a whole game to play still the next night!!

The Cubs weren't cursed. They were just inept. The curse was a cutesy marketing gimmick after a while.
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What I remember is Alou throwing a tantrum after the Bartman play.
 
aparch said:
And even if you don't accept Alex Gonzalez making his boneheaded play, the Cubs had a whole game to play still the next night!!

The Cubs weren't cursed. They were just inept. The curse was a cutesy marketing gimmick after a while.
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I think this part gets lost in history, at least to me. I forgot until the Bartman 30 for 30 that the Bartman game wasn't game 7.
 
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French Rage said:
That ignores cities with no wins in anything, right? (I.e. San Diego IIRC)
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It says that there has to be a professional team in "two or more" of the four major sports, but I think they really meant three or more as they said Buffalo didn't qualify even though it has both the Bills and Sabres. And they left off the Wild when listing Minneapolis-St. Paul at #2 on the list, not that it would've changed the outcome, but they were clearly focused on Minneapolis teams only for our situation.
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
I think this part gets lost in history, at least to me. I forgot until the Bartman 30 for 30 that the Bartman game wasn't game 7.
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Just as, especially prior to 2004, many Red Sox fans forgot that Bill Buckner's error was in game 6.

St. Clown said:
It says that there has to be a professional team in "two or more" of the four major sports, but I think they really meant three or more as they said Buffalo didn't qualify even though it has both the Bills and Sabres. And they left off the Wild when listing Minneapolis-St. Paul at #2 on the list, not that it would've changed the outcome, but they were clearly focused on Minneapolis teams only for our situation.
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If I'm reading the article correctly, Buffalo doesn't qualify because they've never won (didn't they win an AFL championship?). Which seems like an odd qualifier. I'd think that not having won something for a long time is better than never having won at all. But I also think that "more than two" is a fairer qualifier.
 
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Sigh...

Cavs win the NBA. Tigers miss the playoffs. MSU football is doing awful. MSU hockey is awful. Wings starting slow. And now the Indians and Cubs may both be in the World Series.
 
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Joe Buck called Montero the "Game One hero"... As much as I want Buck to eat his words, I don't think it'll happen...
 
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