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As every baseball fan in America knows, our beloved Red Sox have finally won the American League pennant and are now in the running to be the World Champions. This win is not only important just because they won but for the fact that the monkey named the Babe Ruth curse is now leaving the backs of the Red Sox.
This was said to be the year of the Red Sox, and it has been. When it was time for the American League Championship Series, people we hoping that the Red Sox would face the Yankees, just so we could prove that the Sox were a better and more deserving team than the Yanks. When New York pulled out a 3-0 lead in the series, people thought that Boston was done. The Bambino had awakened and cursed them, again.
However, something magical happened. The Sox were able to battle their way back and win the last four games of the series to take away the title of American League Champions from the Yankees and bring it home to Boston.
Ever since Harry Frazee traded Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 and a loan, the Red Sox have been able to blame everything that has gone wrong on the curse. When the Red Sox lost the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in 1975 in seven games, they were cursed. When Bucky-bleeping-Dent hit a home run in a single playoff game for the AL East Division to give the Yankees the title, it was the Babe’s fault. When Bill Buckner let that simple ground ball go between his legs and let the Mets get the winning run to tie the 1986 World Series at six games, Ruth was just working his magic. When Aaron F’ing Boone hit a home run off Tim Wakefield in extra innings of game 7 of the 2003 ALCS, they were defiantly screwed over by the Bambino.
With the curse in jeopardy of being lifted, who can the Red Sox blame if it goes wrong?
It won’t seem right not being able to blame the curse of the Bambino for anything that goes wrong anymore. No one will believe in it from now on, since the evil empire has been defeated. Fans have always been able to rely on that for whenever something tragic happens to the Red Sox. It will feel as if a part of our brain that had always used the same excuse over and over again has been removed.
What will happen when something goes wrong for the Red Sox? If they don’t win the World Series, could we start the curse of the Cardinal?
