First off, let’s be
straight:
Defeat is chickenhood.
If a Met calls you “chicken,”
and then beats you… well Clucky, you have no excuse for your feathers
being ruffled.
Last night, we lost our
third in a row. To the Mehs. The lowly, otherworldly, fly-under-our-boot-heel Mehs.
We will certainly lose Sunday, the lone question being whether R.A. Dickey will
throw a no-hitter. Thus, unless we win today, we will follow our celebrated 10-game
winning streak with five consecutive losses. Yeesh. We might keep losing until
the International Juju Intervention has been completely nullified.
Folks, somebody out
there is using hard juju on us.
They have gone Aleister Crowley on us.
Are Met fans dabbling
in the black arts?
I have a theory.
About a month ago, the Yankees were horrible. Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a better
chance of plating a man. Then we unleashed the International Juju Intervention,
putting a rift into the universal juju-space continuum. We thought it would
only affect the Yankees. What if we were wrong?
One moment, Facebook stock
was worth $40 a share. The next, it was $29. A couple billion dollars abruptly
vanished – to where – to R.A. Dickey?
Suddenly, Kim
Kardashian and Kanye West were dating, and homeless people were eating each
other’s faces, Brett Gardner could not heal, and R.A. Dickey is Sandy Koufax at
80 mph.
Ever since the Juju
Intervention, the world has been on bath salts – yes, BATH SALTS. WTF is going
on? Bath salts? I’m no quantum physicist, but I’ve seen enough Twilight Zone
episodes to know what’s happening: You go screwing around with the Large Hadron
Supercollider, poking your little ray shooters into the wrong particle, and the
next thing you know, we're in a different universe, Mariano is hurt, Phil Hughes is pitching well, and the whole world is crazy over
the Bay City Rollers. (Actually, the whole world isn’t crazy about the Bay City
Rollers; I was reaching for the strangest image I could think of.)
Last night, we were chickens. The Redsocks are closing on us.
Today, we need a
break. Have we used our quota?
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