Do You Feel A Draft?

I can imagine that many political cartoons are going to be going on that theme over the next couple of days. I'll probably head over to Cagle to see if anyone scored a Yatzee with the Hell freezing over theme.

So we tip our hats to Boston, winners after all this time and eradicators of the curse. Nike even jumped on the bandwagon with an ad showing two young boys sitting in the stands with a counter at the bottom at 1918. Then it started scrolling and you saw the boys progress during the different eras. Finally it stopped at 2004 with them as very old men, sitting with their (great) grandkids. It was an interesting little commercial.

Now the Red Sox can go back to tormenting the Yankees properly with cries of "2000." Not as good as "1918," but with Steinbrenner breathing down the Yankee's necks, it might get some play with the players and cause some amusing stories in the New York papers.

The only real bad thing about the Red Sox breaking the curse is that we now loose the mystique of matching the Cubs and the Red Sox in the world series. It would be a rematch of the 1918 world series, but it lacks the punch when its only one club that's suffering.

The true curse breaker match would be the Cubs vs. the White Sox. The Cubs haven't won the series since 1908 but the White Sox haven't won since 1917. Heck, the Cubs haven't been to a series since 1945 and the White Sox since 1959. I can imagine Chicago would get a lot of mileage out of that series. We already have the Billy Goat curse on the Cubs. We should have the Black Sox curse on the south side boys.

But since we have shown that curses can be broken, its only a matter of time. I'm personally putting money down on the Cubs in 2008. Nothing quite like the 100 year anniversary to bring a good curse to a close.