The Curse of the Bambino Stikes Again!

The Curse of the Bambino Strikes Again!

. . . That great baseball town of Boston, with precious little to be proud of as compared with the Yanks, is suffering again in September, 2011 as a result of its heroes ignominiously executing the franchise’s most deft and practiced play, the fine art of choking under pressure.

True, they scrabbled to within a game of grabbing a post-season wild card slot–after blowing a sure invitation to that invention created by the MLB to milk more money out of baseball fans–then did their usual Boston thing by doing what they do best, gasping, surrendering, and choking by losing to the AL last-place Baltimore Orioles, 4-3.

The Bosox and their fans can always say the Yankees did them in by losing to Tampa Bay the same night but we all know the truth: The Bambino is up there somewhere in baseball heaven chomping on his cigars, chugging his beers, chortling over another Red Sox crash, and reveling in “The Curse of the Bambino.”

May the Boston Red Sox rest in peace, golf, party, and generally enjoy a carefree life in the off-season–and come back to replicate their latest failure in 2012.