All in one go.
From www.overthemonster.com yesterday on actor Ben Affleck, a well-known Boston Red Sox supporter and his birthday
"It's Ben Affleck's birthday, so the Red Sox will probably lose today".
The article begins with the punchline:
"That's been the case the last 13 times they've played on August 15, ever since Good Will Hunting released".
Well now you can make it 14 ..... Losing 2-1 to the Blue Jays in Toronto was not the expected outcome, unless you accept the curse was working.
Quite why, for a rationalist like myself, is difficult to explain. There would be no apparent logical reason.
Of course curses were meant to be broken - the Curse of the Bambino (86 years after the departure of Babe Ruth for the hated Yankees, the Red Sox finally won another World Series in 2004). All sorts of mystic practices were tried to remove the curse. Which one worked, I haven't heard.
I am meanwhile not expecting the Red Sox to win the World Series this year (theoretically the team should not even be top of the AL East at this point of the season - a great example of a well-managed team performing far better than the individual parts), and being caught and overtaken by the Tampa Bay Rays is not out of the question, or maybe the Baltimore Orioles who have the easiest schedule for the remainder of the season for teams in the division. Did I mention the hated Yankees? No ....
I read up a load of pre-season predictions from pundits on ESPN.com earlier this week. So wrong you cannot possibly get. The only team that they all seemed to rate pre-season that are doing really well are the Detroit Tigers. At this point of the season my pick for the World Series would be the Tigers against the LA Dodgers, but you know how good my punditry has been over the years.
And anyway as a non-American not living in the USA what could I possibly know about baseball?
And anyway I might be cursed ....
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