Word: bambino
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...Nation has been Damn Nation: the New York Yankees. A home run by Bucky (Freakin') Dent in a one-game playoff in 1978; an 11th-inning blast by Aaron (Flippin') Boone in last year's seven-game playoff heartbreaker. Why, there might even be a curse--of the Bambino, perhaps. For it was the 1920 trade of Sox star Babe Ruth to New York that sent the Yanks on their way to 26 championships while the Ruthless Red Sox went ringless and the fans nursed their creepy karma like a drunk with his last beer...
...QUESTIONS: Curt Schilling on the World Series, the curse of the Bambino and beating the Yankees...
...HAVEN'T WON THE SERIES SINCE THEY TRADED AWAY BABE RUTH IN 1920. IS THERE A CURSE OF THE BAMBINO? It's silly, but it's something you hear all the time in Boston. As a Christian, I know for a fact that the curse doesn't exist. Boston hasn't won a World Series not because of a curse but because the teams they played have been better than them and have done the things they had to do when it mattered most...
...fact, many of the jokes in Harris’s almost-satire are limper than the canned gags that Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., tosses off about the Curse of the Bambino...
...take them seriously. Young people have one of the lowest rates of voter turnout because politicians do not take them seriously; politicians do not take them seriously because they vote in such low numbers. This endless cycle goes around and around, but unlike the curse of the Bambino, this curse can be broken. The baseball season is over, the political season has just begun, and young voters are the Wild Card of the 2004 presidential election: will this be the year they turn their reputation around...