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Friday, October 22, 2004

The Curse: It’s Just a Meme?

Steve the Llama Butcher deconstructs the Curse of the Bambino for the meme that it is. He’s put together an excellent history of how the Curse was born. My favorite part:

The point here is that “The Curse” was something that is not 86 years old (since the Sawx last won the Series with Ruth on the mound in 1918) but only 14, since Dan Shaughnessy, a notorious Boston Globe sportswriter, coined a term and decided to drive an entire region of the country into the loving arms of Mother Paxil.

Here’s Shaughnessy in today’s Globe:

    Let’s get one thing straight: the Curse of the Bambino has not been lifted. The job is not yet done.
Let’s get one thing straight: Dan Shaughnessy needs to shuthispiehole. He created “The Curse” and it would kill him if it were “lifted.” It would be as if The Donald could no longer fire anybody.
Heh. Run along to read the whole thing now. Posted by at 06:59 PM
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