October 30, 200421 yr pretty good stuff by downey in the trib today. http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...cs-home-utility I am announcing the launch of the Curse of Arnold Rothstein. Long overdue, it is time we give the White Sox a way to explain why they can't win a World Series. Babe Ruth is dead; long live a new curse king. Arnold the pig. (I call him this not because Rothstein was a slob like Babe, but because Arnold the pig was a great character on TV's "Green Acres," and because if the Cubs can have a goat, then doggone it, the Sox ought to be able to have a pig.) Join me in giving props where they are due. To the evil gambler who fixed the 1919 World Series and sent our fair city into a Dante-like descent into baseball hell. Just like the Red Sox, the White Sox are about to enter their 86th year without a title. If the crimson hose can do it, so can the pale. Rothstein contaminated our town as the Dave Matthews Band did our river. He soiled our Sox. They were pure until Arnold the swine dragged them into filth. He is why Shoeless Joe Jackson is not in the Hall of Fame. He is why Buck Weaver's name is mud. (Unjustly.) He is why Eddie Cicotte has a reputation worse than Pete Rose's or Denny McLain's. We now know, thanks to the Red Sox, that fairy tales can come true, they can happen to you. The Cubs have a million excuses. They are the Count Dracula of baseball teams … everything repels them. Garlic, mirrors, a stake, a sunrise. We need a "Curse of Arnold Rothstein" Night first thing next April. We will rip up his picture. Or burn it. Steve Dahl can emcee. Nancy Faust can play "The Gambler" on the organ. It will reverse the curse, trust me. .
October 30, 200421 yr pretty good stuff by downey in the trib today. http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...cs-home-utility Well... Basically he "invents" the Black Sox curse again. What's inventive about that? I assume it's a joke, but it's not that funny when it's been talked about for the last 2 days. The difference is he mentions the gambler w/ the money. Ha ha.
October 30, 200421 yr Well... Basically he "invents" the Black Sox curse again. What's inventive about that? I assume it's a joke, but it's not that funny when it's been talked about for the last 2 days. The difference is he mentions the gambler w/ the money. Ha ha. It is a joke. Downey is a pretty sharp satireist.
October 30, 200421 yr It is a joke. Downey is a pretty sharp satireist. I'll take your word for it. I mean, I can read this as a satire on all the "curse" articles, as an exaggerated curse article. But he's satirizing a joke. How funny can that be? I don't know, I just didn't laugh when I was reading it. Maybe it's really, deeply funny. Ha?
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