Friday, August 24, 2007

Curses, Rivalries, and Realizations

I hate Texas as much as the next Sooner fan. I feel the same as former Sooner tight end (and soon-to-be sideline reporter) Trent Smith: "I don't like orange." And we know the feeling is mutual...I especially like how they refer to Bob Stoops as "The Evil One".

But this is going too far. You just don't mess with another man's manhood, for any reason.


I posted the other day about how our neighborhood is almost like a ghetto, with all the crime issues we've been having. I realized today, though, after last night's thunderstorms resulted in this story, that our neighborhood isn't a ghetto, it's just cursed.


Speaking of curses, we've seen quite a few fall over the last few years. First the Red Sox won the World Series and broke the "Curse of the Bambino" in 2004, then the White Sox won it in 2005 to break the "Curse of the Black Sox" and end their then 88-year-long drought (their last Series win was in 1917). Last year the Detroit Tigers made it but couldn't pull off the victory. This year, the Cubs are full of hope, after 99 years of futility (the longest streak without a championship for any existing pro team in any major sport). The Cubs, of course, have their own curse: "The Curse of the Billy Goat." I'm not much of a Cubs fan, but since we've seen curses fall like crazy the last few years, maybe this is the year for the Cubs to break theirs.


ONLY EIGHT DAYS LEFT UNTIL THE OPENER!!! BOOMER SOONER!!! Thanks for reading along.

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