Go Sox!

[ellejir]

joywitch wrote:
> Well, as a Mets fan, I have to say that I look back at the infamous 
> Bill Buckner incident with glee. <snip> 

I lived in Boston at the time of that series and there was certainly 
no *glee* there, only horrified disbelief!

joywitch again:
> For the edification of Pip and others who have no idea what we are 
> talking about, I will say only that the Boston Red Sox, know 
> affectionately as the Sox, are the team that never quite wins the 
> World Series, because there is a curse on them.  You see, about 90 
> years ago, the owner of the team sold Babe Ruth, the greatest 
> baseball player of all time, to the New York Yankees, because he 
> needed money to put on a play because he had the hots for some 
> actress.  As a result, some wizard put a curse on the Sox.  They've 
> come very, very close to winning the World Series since then, but 
> never quite made it.

This is affectionately known in Boston as "The Curse of the Bambino", 
and is invoked to explain all losses and bad play by the Bo Sox.


joywitch again:
> In 1986, they came very, very, very close.  So close, that just
> about everyone thought they had won.  They needed one more strike.
> (That means just one more decent throw of the ball.)  In fact, one
>  more strike would have won the game 9 separate times, I think.
>  But, well, with respect to the Sox fans here I won't repeat the
> excruciating details, although I remember them like it was
> yesterday.  Suffice to  say that a series of bad pitches, good
> hitting, and a ball which rolled through the legs of an otherwise
> decent ballplayer named Bill Buckner due to that forgotten wizard's
> curse, caused the Sox to screw up royally, and allowed my team, the
> New York Mets, to win the 1986 World Series.  
> 
> Ah.  What a wonderful moment that was.  Sheer magic.
> 

I, too, remember it like yesterday. (covers face with hands to hide 
sobbing)  And poor old Bill Buckner--talk about the screw up of a 
lifetime!  The joke going around Boston for years was:
"Did you hear that Bill Buckner tried to commit suicide??  He jumped 
in front of a bus, but it went between his legs."

Elle (sniff, sniff)