Dead Sox*
They're going, they're going, they're gone!
My prayers have been answered. The
Sox have been swept by the ChiSox. And the Curse is back.
The latest initiator of the Curse: Red Sox second baseman Tony Graffanino, who, at a key moment in Game Two, flubbed the easiest double play ball ever hit. (Even Bernie Williams would have to try hard to hit a double play ball that easy.) Two batters later, a three-run home run soared over the outfield wall, and the Sox were toast.
More proof of the Curse's return: The pitcher who shut down the Red Sox yesterday with the bases loaded and no outs? Orlando Hernandez...who is, of course, a former Yankee.
Still more proof: Dan Shaughnessy's massive hubris in declaring, back in June, that the Sox were going to run away with the AL East...this invited the wrath of the baseball gods, and is, more than anything else, responsible for Curse, Part II.
Granted, the Yanks are in a hole at the moment, down 2-1 to the Angels, who are very tough. Randy Johnson looked like
Kevin Brown last night, and Robinson Cano is making too many rookie mistakes, leaving the bag too early on a crucial throw to second and then swinging at the first pitch to fly out with the bases loaded and two outs.
Well, it's going to be interesting. I hope the Yanks can come from behind—they've already done it once this season. But we've already won a moral victory in winning the division. And we've outlasted the Sox. Whoo-hoo! I could not ask the baseball gods for anything more...lest they think I'm greedy.
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* Headline thanks to the New York Post....
