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12-08-2003, 01:08 AM
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Any more curse?
Now we have curse of Bambino, (I know another editon, about piano) curse of Billy Goat, curse of Steve Balboni, and I have a book named "Curse of Colavito" (did Rocky really curse the tribe?) and if you go accross the Pacific, you'll find the curse of Colonel Sanders in Japan Pro and Curse of Bien. (our president in Taiwan, every time he went to a ballgame the home team lose)
Anybody knows anymore curse? |
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12-08-2003, 07:03 AM
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Rocky didn't "curse" the Tribe, but Tribe fans everywhere "cursed" when he was traded to Detroit for Harvey Kuenn in 1960.
The Cubs and Red Sox have the most famous "curses", but the White Sox have gone longer without winning the World Series. Their last WS win predates the "Curse of the Black Sox" by a dozen years or so. How about the Mariners? Have they been around long enough to warrant a curse? They have never even been to a World Series, yet set a record for most wins ever in a season. |
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12-08-2003, 07:40 AM
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12-08-2003, 07:47 AM
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here are some old discussions on this:
http://www.netshrine.com/vbulletin2/...ead.php?t=9923 http://www.netshrine.com/vbulletin2/...ad.php?t=12055 http://www.netshrine.com/vbulletin2/...ad.php?t=11383 can you explain more on these asian curses?
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Thank you all for these great discussions. The Asian curses I mentioned are curse of Colonel Sanders in Japan and curse of President Bien in Taiwan. I'll try to explain it with my bad English. Curse of Colonel Sanders is on Japan pro baseball team Hanshin Tigers. It happened in 1985, Tigers won Central League pennant and then Japanese Champion that year. (Japanese pro baseball has two leagues: Central League and Pacific League) And every time Tigers won the pennant, the hometown (Okinawa) fans will celebrate it by doing one thing - find one fan looks like a Tiger and makes him jump to a river. (named Dotonbori River) Fans keep jumping and jumping according to the Tigers roster, but there is a problem: No Japanese will look like a foreign player named Randy Bass. Bass ever played in Majors and he won triple crown and Japan Series MVP that year. You can't do this without him. At that time they found a Colonel Sanders in front of a KFC there looks like 6-1, 220-pound Bass. (I think they all drunk) So they just push Mr. Sanders down the river... and the curse began. After 1985, not only Tigers never won any pennant, they almost were certain last team in their league every year and their rival Giants won the pennant several times. you can check this on USA today:http://www.usatoday.com/sports/bbw/2...ding-off_x.htm And the Curse of President Bien is from my country, Taiwan, and It happened this year. We'll vote for president next year so our president likes to go to ballgames to do some campaign. And suddenly someone found that every time he went to a ballgame, the home team ALWAYS loses, not even pro baseball games, but international exhibition games that we host... (Bien is not his first name, it's his nickname)
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Randy Bass = Col. Sanders?
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