I have no reason to watch playoff baseball any longer. The team that I love that has taken me to the point of so many heart attacks and painful headaches have lost to none other than another team that has waited for ever to be the World Champs, the Chicago White Sox.
Can't say I love or hate the White Sox...quite frankly I just don't care about them that much. I have sat at Chominsky (I mean US Cellular) field and didn't think the fans were all that much but hats off to them and their team for once again proving everyone wrong so far this season.
The problem that I have today doesn't have to do with who we lost to or why we lost for that matter but instead with Bill Buckner. I know, why am I bringing back up the 1986 disaster of a World Series. I am doing it because less than four days ago it happened to us again. How can professionals not know the basics of baseball? Of course I understand being excited and overwhelmed by the game and things happen but still they happen to us and in the same way over and over. I can still hear it: "So the winning run is at second base...with 2 outs, 3 and 2 to Mookie Wilson...little roller up along first, behind the bag! It gets through Buckner! Here comes Knight and the Mets win it!" Vin Scully...it sends chills down my spine. It is beyond frustrating. It is annoying.
Every one of the New England faithful thought that we had finally gotten over being the losers of Major League baseball. We thought that we were done with curses and suffering and lousy playoff loses but I guess we were wrong. The baseball Gods might not have completely forgiven us yet. And on that note I begin to wonder what we will be doing in the off season that maybe just maybe the baseball Gods will finally once and for all forgive us.
Here is to February of next year when pitchers and catchers report...
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5 comments:
Well, to be fair.... Bill Buckner let the winning run of game 6 score when the ball dribbled through his legs. So the game was OVER after his play (if I remember correctly).
This time, Wells still had to toss the hanging curveball to Iguchi - if he'd pitched through it, then the score would have remained at 4-2 Red Sox.
I don't really think it's in the same category of fuckup...
That said, I'm sorry that your season had a disappointing end - I'm not huge on the Red Sox, but I know loads of fans are pretty bummed. Let's all come together now and cheer against the Yankees!
You could cheer for the Cards. Duh.
Ok my friend so it wasn't the exact same thing but I am telling you it felt in my gut like it.
So on that note here is to the Cardinals...my NL team all year long and my only reason to watch the post season...I mean other than hating on the Yankees of course!
You certainly did not lose the series b/c of Tony Graffanino, who by the way, hit a double the next inning, but the Red Sox couldn't score him. No pitching = No championships = the reason the Red Sox lost
I know, I know...we had no pitching staff this year. We missed the Pedro, Schilling, Lowe, Wakefield rotation big time. But come on I am a Red Sox fan...it is my responsibility to blame some sort of curse like activity!
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