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Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox choke
Chicago's Billygoat Curse and Boston's Curse
of the Bambino live on
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It's a World Series match-up baseball purists have
dreamed about for decades...especially baseball purists from Chicago and Boston.
The Red Sox and the Cubs, two of baseball's oldest franchises and perhaps the
two most tortured teams in sports history, locking horns with a world
championship on the line. Considering each team's heartbreaking history, a
Cubs-Sox World Series seemed like an impossibility. After all, we're talking
about to teams that, combined, haven't won a championship in 180 years -- 1908
for Chicago and 1919 for Boston, who ironically topped the Cubs that year in the
Fall Classic.
But it looked like we may actually see the Sox and Cubs square off with a world
championship on the line this year. The Cubbies had the Florida Marlins on the
ropes in the NLCS, opening up a 3-1 series lead before coughing up the NL title.
Many Cubs fans are pointing fingers at the poor sap who, as most fans would in
the same situation, simply tried to catch a now infamous foul ball in the
stands, but the truth is the Cubbies had three chances to bury the Marlins and
they choked. Even with aces Mark Prior and Kerry Wood on the mound, Chicago
simply couldn't get the job done.
The Red Sox, meanwhile, owned a three-run lead with one out in the eighth inning
of game seven before they too imploded. Ironically, they also lost with their
horse on the mound -- Pedro Martinez surrendered the 5-2 lead in the eighth by
allowing four-straight hits to Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Hideki Matsui and
Jorge Posada. An Aaron Boone homer off knuckleballer Tim Wakefield in the 11th
had Boston fans once again cursing Babe Ruth and those damn Yankees.
Both the ALCS and NLCS were spectacular examples of baseball at its absolute
best. Four teams each battling for seven grueling games. But for Sox and Cubs
fans, 2003 will go down as just another year of heartache. You may not believe
in curses, but it sure seemed like the Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox were
opposed by more than just the teams on the other side of the field.
We've compiled several links from around the Web detailing these legendary choke
jobs below. Plus, visit our Baseball Web Guide for even
more links. And if you run across anything we should add to this page, feel
free to pass it along to us at staff@bullz-eye.com.
Bambino?
Billygoat? Wicked witch? What the hex! (USA
Today)
Cursed
times two (FoxSports.com)
Little
was too late with ace in the hole (Boston.com)
Misery
has more company (Boston.com)
A
loss that will linger forever (Boston.com)
Sox
fall short? Of Curse (Boston Herald)
Ace
burned by ego: Pedro's bravado led to ruin (Boston
Herald)
Cubs
release statement on fan (ChicagoSports.com)
Wood:
I choked, let the city down (ChicagoSports.com)
Cubs
reeled in again (Chicago Sun-Times)
Crying
uncle: Baseball gods get our goat again (Chicago
Sun-Times)
It's
wait until next year all over again (Chicago
Sun-Times)
Baseball's
gods must be crazy (ESPN.com)
Red
Sox fans designed to be second-best (ESPN.com)
Curses!
Cubs foiled again (ESPN.com)
Fan
sorry from 'bottom of broken heart' (ESPN.com)
Move
over Bucky. Here's Boone (FoxSports.com)
Wishful Thinking
Red Sox and Cubs in the World Series? Maybe
when...
(Bullz-Eye.com)
Just
win already
(CNNSI.com)
Nostradamus: Cubs, Red Sox playoff berths mean end is near
(MSNBC.com)
Ultimately, it's Cubs-Red Sox that everyone wants (USA
Today)
The Red Sox and Cubs (or one of them) will make the World Series
(USA Today)
Cubs, Red Sox start out as postseason darlings
(Boston Herald)
Here's
rooting for a Cubs-Red Sox World Series (Bradenton
Online)
Not everyone's sympathy extends to Cubs, Red Sox
(Post-Gazette.com)
Dream
World Series: Cubs-Red Sox
(St. Petersburg Times)
Breaking
the Cubs' Curse (History News Network)
Red
Sox and Cubs -- Is this the year? (TheCommishOnline.com)
Cubs
will top them all (The Oracle)
Cubs
vs. Red Sox in World Series? It could happen
(ABC Action News)
The
10 dream Series match-ups (The
International Herald Tribune)
Could
Cubs-Red Sox World Series signal end of the world? (Madison.com)
Cubs
win, I'm at a loss (The-Signal.com)
Jinxes bedevil World Series dreams of long-suffering Cubs, Red Sox fans
(The Arizona Republic)
Red
Sox, Cubs fans eye World Series (MorningSun.net)
Cubs-Bosox
would be classic, again (Detroit Free
Press)
Is
anybody ready for Red Sox, Cubs in Fall Classic? (DailyPress.com)
Fans
favor Cubs, Red Sox in playoffs (HoustonChronicle.com)
Cubs-Red
Sox Series would end in a tie (The
Marion Star)
Cubs-Red
Sox in cursed Series? It could happen! (SignOnSanDiego.com)
Coverage
1918 World Series
Baseball-Reference.com
MLB.com
SportingNews.com
Baseball-Almanac.com
RedSoxBaseball.com
1918RedSox.com
HistoricBaseball.com
BostonPhoenix.com
AllSports.com
TheDiamondAngle.com
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