The Curse of the Rings?
Via Ken Davidoff -
When the Yankees won the 2000 World Series, they declined to distribute championship rings to the entire organization, as they did after their 1996, 1998 and 1999 triumphs. The group of dissed employees, numbering between 20 and 25, privately placed a curse on the team, proclaiming there would be no more parades until they received their jewelry.
They called it The Curse of the Rings.
The Curse is now 8 years old. It attended a sleepover party last night and is going to see “High School Musical 3″ today.
Brian Cashman tried putting this issue to rest when he gained full power as Yankees GM three years ago. These people aren’t getting their rings, Cashman told Newsday in 2006. So consider this our annual plea for Cashman to change his mind. His job is hard enough without having to worry about bad karma.
This sort of ties back to what I found back on January 28, 2007 – where, reportedly, George Steinbrenner fired some employee not long before the 2001 World Series and then the displaced guy’s wife supposedly cursed the Yankees.
Then again, the Carroll Curse hasn’t exactly killed the Red Sox, has it?
Something like this happened after the 1918 Series. As you may know, players on the Cubs and Red Sox threatened to cease playing prior to game 5 of that Series due to the Series shares being cut in half. Some last minute negotiating prevented the “strike,” but the players received nothing out of it. In fact, not only were their shares not increased, the National Commission refused as well to give the Red Sox their World Champion emblems (a type of lapel pin that was a precursor of the World Series ring).
Harry Hooper, as well as some other members of the 1918 Red Sox, spent the rest of his life petitioning the National Commission and later the Baseball Commissioner for the emblem, but to no avail. Each and every member of that World Championship team—Boston’s last for 86 years—went to his grave without ever receiving an emblem. Finally, in 1993, in a way of exorcising old demons, the Red Sox held a special day in honor of the 75th anniversary of the 1918 Championship and gave a replica emblem to each of the players’ living descendants in attendance.
There is no curse, the team hasn’t made the right adjustments to keep up with the Joneses. That’s all. Boston is a mix of a scrappy NL team, a home run team and a OBP monster squad. Every Yankee fan is pining for the 96 team when they had very little power and had role players. The Angels are the closest thing to the 90s Yankees, how are they doing against Boston in a short series?
One more thing, the Yanks finished 3 games ahead of Toronto. Who on that team scares you offensively? Maybe Rios and Wells and that is a very big maybe. What is their curse? Curse of the Cito? Curse of the Field Turf? Gimme a break! Yankees have all theses master hitters and the Jays finish only three games behind? There is no curse BUT only the Curse of Cash Man. Yeah, Steve I’m a Cash Man hater, too.Yanks should have picked up Theo when he bolted the Red Stockings in 2005. As a superscout or consultant, THEN put him into the big chair.
Yankees have all theses master hitters and the Jays finish only three games behind?
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Runs per game, 2007, 2008
TOR: 4.65 – 4.41
NYY: 5.98 – 4.87
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