I tend to find that many fans have a tendency to display a fairly pathetic desire to in some way be a part of the game. Witness the noise do-hickies.
I'm wondering: Why don't the broadcasters (or league) come up with a plausible story about the White Sox curse? If they're supposed to handily win this series—and even if they're not—the league should be hyping the handy, compelling story that dates back to 1919 and features Shoeless Joe Jackson, a player who has already appeared as a ghost, in the new modern classic, Field of Dreams (1989).
I imagine that, even at this remove, the league isn't keen to recall its darkest episode (racial issues aside).
Witthelm thinks that's studid, he says. I don't know what's wrong with his fingers.
What's worse for the league: some bad news from eighty years ago, or an unwatched Series?
Are you guys in the same room right now?
We're watching the game and aching for a better Sox Curse storyline. And commenting on blogs. Previously, we cooked chicken. It's a fascinating life.
I think you underestimate the moralism of the American people. The league really can't hype the curse. Anyway, these things have to be more or less organic to be effective. No one in Chicago talks about the curse of the Black Sox (or cares about the White Sox, for that matter).
But you underestimate how truly, truly boring this Series is going to be, and how badly the league needs to come up with a narrative. The league apparently underestimates that, too.
or cares about the White Sox, for that matter
You're from the northern suburbs, correct?
I have no idea why you'd ask that, Weiner.
Look, I agree that the series is going to be boring, but I don't see what choice the league has. To make the Black Sox narrative compelling, they'd really have to explain, in detail, what happened. Cheating! Betrayal! Gambling!
What's worse, not having a curse story or having a lame one? The Red Sox curse story is just plain stupid - it involves an apocryphally pissy Babe Ruth and "No No Nanette." The Cubs have that idiot thing with the goat. Better to just shrug and say "yeah, we suck" than have a curse that's just dumb.
I was amazed at how much the announcers during the Sox-Sox series went on about the inspiring story of the Red Sox, and how crushed they seemed when they lost. I mean, how tragic is it that the defending champions get knocked out early in the playoffs? I'm sure folks in Boston care, but for the rest of us it makes no sense. Barely a word about the Curse of Shoeless Joe, either.
Of course, I was watching with some White Sox fans, so my perspective may have been skewed.
White Sox fans, eh? Must not be from Chicago.
(Take that, Weiner.)
Baseball has been a dreary, dreary sport for about two decades now.
This guy cares about the White Sox.
God, we're getting our ass kicked in the battle of the catchers.
I like the Sox too, but I'm not admitting it officially until this thread is exhausted.
I can't watch baseball or sumo sober.
If they manage to find one hot woman in the stands, I'll post nude pictures of Labs.
Small ball, big boys, bottled beer?
Sometimes a cigar is just a cock on fire.
Well, I'm rooting for the Sox, since they felled my team, but mostly I'm glad that the demon Yankees aren't in the ALCS.
How can we not like baseball at the Mineshaft?
(via LGM.)
Baseball has been a dreary, dreary sport for about two decades now.
Apo, will you have my baby?
To 25, I think that the BUW should become a new standard unit of measurement. ATM, that is.
Apo, will you have my baby?
No, but he'll nurse it.
I'm ashamed that I've looked closely enough to need to ask this, but...is his nipple inverted in some way?
Looks just like it does in real life normal to me.
Watching the game, I find myself rooting for the Angels, even though, based on my usual system for determining who to side with when I don't have a rooting interest, I should be going for the White Sox. It must be some leftover affection from watching them beat the MFYs lastnight.
I'm seen an inverted nipple before. 'S awesome.
As an Oakland As fan transplanted these many years to NYC, I don't really have any good options. Root for the now-bested Yankees, and I'm a traitor; root for the Angels, and I'm a traitor. The White Sox seems a nice, non-confrontational team to root for. I agree that they need to work on their curse, though. Every baseball franchise needs a curse to justify the taxpayer expense, after all.
We're watching the game and aching for a better Sox Curse storyline. And commenting on blogs. Previously, we cooked chicken. It's a fascinating life.
Sounds awesome. Let me know when you need another roommate. (Pluses: I will not make fun of your spelling.)
How unfortunate.....Are you particularly attatched to your things? I mean, if you're not, room could be made.
Babe Ruth's leaving the Red Sox had nothing to do with "No, No, Nanette," that's an urban legend. And MLB might be able to get away with an historical discussion of the Black Sox (they could even have noted Cub fan John Cusack do it) if it weren't for more recent memories of Pete Rose.
I guess you've got a point—damn. "Ladies, Michael says you need to leave to make room for him."
Babe Ruth's leaving the Red Sox had nothing to do with "No, No, Nanette,"
The "Curse of the Bambino" is still pretty stupid, whether you include the musical or not. As a fat, goofy-looking guy in a silly uniform, Babe Ruth does not make a compelling curse character. The Cubs' goat story works better because weird old men with goats are creepy, but is still undeniably stupid. I mean, Jesus, it's just a dumb goat.
The Black Sox make for a real juicy curse story - you have seedy conspiracy, betrayal, and game-rigging. I can't imagine why it hasn't been adopted, but for the fact that White Sox fans are great big fucking pansies. Go back to your fat men and your goats.
41: Wait, y'all are sitting around the appartment full up with ladies, and all of y'all are reading blogs?
That's just how they roll, bitch.
We were, before you made me kick them out.
Well, I feel appreciated, even if I am now less certain about the healthiness of your priorities. But I can stay for free, right?
You have to sleep with the women.
You have to sleep with the women.
And that's not a euphemism.
That's settled. If only someone else were available to pleasure them!
So long as it's not Southern Comfort.
I can provide "Southern Comfort," IYKWIMAITYD.
Think of it this way: once I move in, you and wettam don't have to worry about being hosts to your lady-guests and can blog without care. I'll be providing a service.
Right. I in fact was not referring to the whisky.
True story: I am reading a book about procrastination right now.
If I paid attention to baseball, I surely would have realized that the enitre moniker, "Randy Johnson: the Big Unit," is just one big cock joke.
I nominated him for the official baseballer of Unfogged.
The DH rule must go, if only because it keeps Randy Johnson from swinging his bat.
I know not why that "d" is there after "nominate."
I know not why that "d" is there after "nominate."
Duh, it's to indicate the past tense.
What, is w-lfs-n on holiday or something?
