About the Sox
It sucked, but it could have been worse. At least it was short, and they didn’t bother getting our hopes up.
The irony is that the only team still in it that I have any feeling for is the one that just handed us our still-beating hearts, the other Sox.
October 8th, 2005 at 11:44 am
I’m glad to hear you say that, ‘coz it makes me feel less disloyal. One problem with me trying to become a sportsfan is that I lack a real killer instinct. Now that the spectre of The Curse has been laid to rest, the other long-standing championship droughts feel like injustices that deserve redress. There was no question about which Sox I was rooting for, but now that we’re out of it, I’m inclined to pull for Chicago. I suppose it’s even theoretically possible that if the Damn Yanks went winless long enough (and if I lived long enough to witness it, because it would take several decades) I might even conceive a sympathy for them.
October 10th, 2005 at 12:52 pm
Burn Summervillain! Hertetic! Burn!
October 10th, 2005 at 12:56 pm
That business out of the way, this playoff loss feels a lot like the 88 drubbing at the hands of the A’s. A lack of pitching. A sense, unlike ‘86, that destiny was out having a smoke and admiring the California light (is that a premonition?).
October 12th, 2005 at 11:17 am
Now, now. No heretic burning on this blog.
I have to say, though, if I were to estimate how long I’d have to live to feel sympathy for the Yankees…. I’d say I’d probably have to live to be about 160. And that’s not like 130 years of close calls: I think there would have to be about 80 purifying years of being utterly craptacular, during which the schadenfreude slowly, slowly gave way to pity.
October 12th, 2005 at 6:12 pm
Sad to say, but you’re a bigger man than I am. Although 80 years of NYY crapaciousness would be pretty fun to experience!
October 12th, 2005 at 6:21 pm
I’m going with a solid century of crapitude, minimum. The stretch of crapitude has to be longer than The Curse, after all.