Meanwhile Lee Jenkins brings up the ‘curse’ blather in the Noo Yawk Times with regards to the Cubs-Sox series, even if he does at least seem to note that the Curse of the Bambino thing is of fairly recent provenance (*cough* Dan Shaughnessy money-grubbing *cough*):
The Curse of the Billy Goat has endured longer than the Curse of the Bambino, even though it was always deemed less authentic.
Less authentic? Less authentic than a made-up curse that was never mentioned until the 1980s? Pah!
Meanwhile, Jim Belushi weighs in:
“Watching the Red Sox win was a very weird experience,” said Jim Belushi, an actor and a lifelong Cubs fan. “It was like having a neighbor win the lottery. At first you’re really happy for them because it couldn’t happen to a better guy. And then you realize that he’ll move into a bigger house in another neighborhood and you never had anything in common with him in the first place and he was really a big jerk. I mean, the Red Sox’ celebrity mascot is Ben Affleck. Doesn’t that tell you enough?”
A bitter, bitter man is he. If it were fellow Cubs fan John Cusack saying those words, maybe they might mean something, but it’s hard to find the star (I use that word loosely) of “According to Jim” particularly credible.