Sunday, March 06, 2005

Say it ain't so, Joe

Joe Torre talks about the Sox-Yankees rivalry and how last year's win changed the tenor of the rivalry, and then invokes the c-word:
"I'm curious to see, every year the pressure seemed to mount because that 1918 was further back in time," Torre said Friday before the Yankees played Pittsburgh. "Now that’s not an issue anymore, I’m curious because The Curse is not the motivating factor." (Link)
Now, as an old-timer in the game, Torre must surely have known that no one talked about a curse - and certainly not a Curse with a capital C - surrounding the Sox until about 1986, as Glenn Stout's research has shown. So was he talking about only recent history, or is human memory fallible like that, with the proliferation of 'Curse' talk in the stream of conversational chatter making him think there's always been talk of a curse?

Yankees continued their losing streak against the Pirates, incidentally. When was the last time they won a game? Oh yeah, sometime in October.

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Comments:

Pisses me off every time, the ridiculous thinking of all those associated with the Yankees, although I had considered Joe Torre an exception.

As if winning *one* world series is going to make everyone in Boston go, "oh, ok, Yankees, you can have domination of MLB back now, no problem." like we're kindergartners who got their turn and now it's time to hand the keys back to the big boys.

The "curse" thing is just crap. It's tantamount to admitting that your team didn't succeed on its own.

By Beth on March 07, 2005 2:15 AM | Permalink  

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