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October in Chicago can be the cruelest month, and we're not talking weather. For 88 years it has been a final resting place for the World Series dreams of both the White Sox and Cubs, an epically painful calendar of defeat pockmarked by Bartman (the dopey fan who may have cost the Cubs the pennant in 2003) and the "Black Sox" (the team that threw the 1919 Series). The record had been equaled only by the Boston Red Sox, whose curse-crushing triumph last year proved that nobody can lose forever. So as the White Sox legions watched their...
This is how you travel to a New England Patriots game: if you don’t have a car, you cram into a single, packed train festooned with Tom Brady jerseys and Red Sox caps turned backwards...
Matt tags along and is soon introduced to the world of “firms”—groups of sports fans who make the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry look like a friendly dinner table debate. Their main forms of recreation prove to be supporting their team, drinking heavily, and beating the fish and chips out of rival firms...
...Boston Red Sox were battling the Cleveland Indians in the ALDS that fall, and a very public and controversial dispute arose over who should be Boston’s starting pitcher for Game Four. Pedro Martinez seemed to be the obvious choice, but manager Jimy Williams stunned Red Sox Nation by selecting reclamation project Pete Schourek to start the game...
...even earned himself a memorable mention in Dan Shaughnessy’s famous book “The Curse of the Bambino”—some Sox fanatics tried rearranging the letters of Pete Schourek’s name, and discovered that it was an anagram for the phrase “Ruth Keep Score.” Schourek’s anagram may not rival that of fellow former Sox pitcher Bruce Hurst, whose letters could be rearranged to form “B. Ruth Curse,” but any press is good press for guys...