Fair Karma Fan
I was born in Missouri. I should be pulling for the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, but I'm not.
And it isn't because I have some deep seated interest in the Cardinals losing. I actually like the Cardinals. Were this any other match up, I likely would be pulling for the boys of my home state, but not this year.
It is the BoSox year. If any team deserves to win the Series, it is the Boston Red Sox. Here is a team that came back from an impossible situation against the New York Yankees and managed to salvage themselves.
In fact, I think we're all feeling that the World Series itself is a little anticlimactic after the series between the Yanks and the boys from Beantown.
I guess I'm a sucker for an underdog, but I am Red Sox fan now. I think my fate was surely sealed in that area when a rather nasty man made some nasty remarks to my husband at the grocery store yesterday.
The hub had his BoSox cap on in anticipation of last night's first game and as he was grabbing some fruit in the produce aisle, this jerk comes up and says, "I hope 1918 holds up," and sneered at the hub proud of his remark.
The hub simply smiled and said, "You must be a bitter Yankees fan. I understand. It must be real hard to watch your team fall completely apart after they practically had the series wrapped up."
The man huffed and walked off.
It brought home for both the hub and I that the Yanks, and their fans, have been resting on the curse of the Bambino and that they will always win against their dread rivals the Red Sox because fate and destiny have determined their success.
Ah, but clearly fate is a fickle thing. I'll be the first to say I'd rather be lucky as good any day of the week. But even though good luck is welcome, it isn't as sure a thing as hard work and skill. And most of us have control over that.
We won't know if the curse of the Bambino is gone for good until the end of the Fall Classic. One thing is for sure, that said curse is definitely teetering. The boys from Beantown have it set in their minds they're going to banish that curse if it is the last thing they do.
And if it helps, this fair karma fan will be wearing a BoSox cap until its all over.
And it isn't because I have some deep seated interest in the Cardinals losing. I actually like the Cardinals. Were this any other match up, I likely would be pulling for the boys of my home state, but not this year.
It is the BoSox year. If any team deserves to win the Series, it is the Boston Red Sox. Here is a team that came back from an impossible situation against the New York Yankees and managed to salvage themselves.
In fact, I think we're all feeling that the World Series itself is a little anticlimactic after the series between the Yanks and the boys from Beantown.
I guess I'm a sucker for an underdog, but I am Red Sox fan now. I think my fate was surely sealed in that area when a rather nasty man made some nasty remarks to my husband at the grocery store yesterday.
The hub had his BoSox cap on in anticipation of last night's first game and as he was grabbing some fruit in the produce aisle, this jerk comes up and says, "I hope 1918 holds up," and sneered at the hub proud of his remark.
The hub simply smiled and said, "You must be a bitter Yankees fan. I understand. It must be real hard to watch your team fall completely apart after they practically had the series wrapped up."
The man huffed and walked off.
It brought home for both the hub and I that the Yanks, and their fans, have been resting on the curse of the Bambino and that they will always win against their dread rivals the Red Sox because fate and destiny have determined their success.
Ah, but clearly fate is a fickle thing. I'll be the first to say I'd rather be lucky as good any day of the week. But even though good luck is welcome, it isn't as sure a thing as hard work and skill. And most of us have control over that.
We won't know if the curse of the Bambino is gone for good until the end of the Fall Classic. One thing is for sure, that said curse is definitely teetering. The boys from Beantown have it set in their minds they're going to banish that curse if it is the last thing they do.
And if it helps, this fair karma fan will be wearing a BoSox cap until its all over.
posted by A.McSholty at 11:01 AM
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