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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- The Greatest Curse of All
By Chuck Zlatkin
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I am not a superstitious person and yet I am familiar with the Cure of Tecumseh, also known as the Zero Year Curse. From 1840 on each president elected in a year ending in zero has had his term cut short, either by assassination or illness. I also am aware of Tutankhamen's Curse. In 1923 the Pharaoh�s burial chamber was opened and seven weeks later Lord Carnarvon died and the idea of a curse was cemented.
It was some time during the sixth game of the Yankee-Red Sox series that it came to me. As the television camera panned the Yankee dugout, I saw him standing there. When I looked at his face it was as clear as day, I knew that the Yankees would lose the playoffs, they were not going to World Series in 2004.
When game seven was about to be played the Yankee faithful called upon the power of the Curse of the Bambino to secure victory. For the fifteen of you who don�t know what the Curse of the Bambino is, I�ll tell you. Babe Ruth, thought to be by many the greatest baseball player of all time, was called the Bambino. He started his major league career with the Boston Red Sox. In 1917, Harry Frazee, an entertainment entrepreneur bought the team for $200,000. In 1920 he sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 and a $350,000 loan. Frazee did this in order to finance the Broadway musical "No, No, Nanette" written by Vincent Youmans and Irving Caesar. It was the longest running musical of the decade. It introduced the song "Tea for Two."
The stark baseball reality is that prior to selling Ruth the Boston Red Sox had won five World Series, while the Yankees had won none. Following the sale of Ruth, the Red Sox have not won a World Series since back in 1918, while the Yankees have won 26. This phenomenon has been tagged �The Curse of the Bambino.�
But the "Curse of the Bambino" wasn�t the only mojo that Yankee fans had going for them. Before game seven there were Yankee fans that were supremely confident that the Yankees would prevail. There was simply no way that the Yankees could lose a game seven on Mickey Mantle�s birthday. But I knew differently. There was something more powerful than the curse or the birthright. The Yankees were going to lose and nobody was telling the people the truth about the reason why.
Most Yankee fans don�t want to dwell on the fact that the Yankees didn�t appear in the World Series from 1982 through 1995, it is just too painful to think about. But we have to ask what the reason was? We can call up all kinds of statistics and hear varied, sometimes even conflicting, analyses as to why. But no one points to the incontrovertible fact that from 1982 through 1995 Don Mattingly played for the New York Yankees. Was it mere coincidence that Mattingly�s career mimicked the World Series drought?
Donnie Baseball is what his fans called him. Don Mattingly was a great baseball player. He had his career cut short because of injury. Don Mattingly is often called the greatest Yankee player not to have appeared in a World Series. Donnie was loved; he was the main man during this period. Mattingly was clutch, he was intense and he was white.
I don't know why it happened. I don't know what karma was at play, but yes, the beloved Donnie Baseball is the jinx, the Jonah; it�s the Mattingly Curse that is responsible for the Yankees blowing a 3-0 game lead.
Following the 1995 season, Mattingly was forced to retire because of his bad back. Immediately the Yankees ended their World Series absence by appearing in six of the next eight World Series.
In 2004 Don Mattingly was added to the Yankee roster as the batting coach. Despite a banner year, a first place finish, 101 victories and three outs to go, the Yankees found themselves powerless to advance because of the Mattingly Curse.
I demand an immediate investigation of the media. Why have the American people been peddled the same fraud from every outlet in the press? Sports talk radio was full of talk advancing the fraud that the Curse of the Bambino was inviolate; while in reality it was powerless in the face of the Mattingly Curse.
You may scoff at my logic here. How can a rational person above the age of 12 believe that there is such a thing as a curse or jinx? But I say to you, what about the case of Nolan Ryan and the New York Mets? The New York Mets first season was 1962, and through much of the Mets history whatever success they had was attributed to their pitching. Yet in the entire history of the New York Mets not one of their pitchers pitched a no-hitter.
A young Nolan Ryan pitched for the New York Mets from 1966 to 1971. He was traded by the New York Mets to the California Angels with Leroy Stanton, Francisco Estrada and Don Rose in exchange for Jim Fregosi on December 10, 1971.
In his distinguished Hall of Fame career Ryan went on to set the record for the most no-hitters in a career with seven. Remember now, that in the 42-year history of the New York Mets there are zero no-hitters. All the great pitchers who were with the New York Mets had to get traded before they could pitch a no-hitter. Tom Seaver with the Cincinnati Reds, Jerry Koosman with the Minnesota Twins, David Cone and Dwight Gooden with the New York Yankees.
Yes, there was payback for the Mets in trading away the greatest no-hitter pitcher in baseball history. The baseball gods have punished the Mets for their arrogance. It continues to this day.
Most Yankee fans can't believe that the Boston Red Sox are about to win the World Series. They fail to see that the Curse of the Bambino is no more it has been supplanted by the Curse on Don Mattingly.
Just the other day it was written that if Willie Randolph is hired as the manager of the New York Mets, Don Mattingly will be promoted to be Joe Torre's bench coach. Is Mattingly being groomed to be the next Yankee manager?
Does George Steinbrenner know about the curse? I don�t think so.
It was Steinbrenner who personally wooed Don Mattingly back to the Yankees. So, let me be the first to tell George Steinbrenner and all Yankee fans that they have to make a choice. Will it be Don Mattingly or the World Series?
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