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MARIO J. TORRES
The curse of the bambino
The legend existing for decades
over the Major League baseball team, the Red Sox, from the city of Boston,
based on a supposed curse that fell on the team as a result of the
controvert transfer to the New York Yankees of the famous slugger Babe Ruth,
indeed showed, over the course of all these long years, a certain trace of
truthfulness due to the strange circumstances in which, this great
franchise, once a winning team, started to lose decisive championship games
in weird and even ridiculous or mysterious situations and thus gained the
popular seal of being a haunted team under the spell of Babe Ruth's
vengeance, who never wanted to be transferred from that team.
World Champions in 1918, the Red Sox and their eager fans saw World Series
after World Series pass by for decades without being able to enjoy the
flavor of a new title again. The myth was created and then passed from
generation to generation and there were people, who, ever since they were
born, only heard of this kind of spell and joined the rest of the furious
fans who longed for a victory after so many years. The team, in the
meantime, and in spite of its overflowing quality, unexplainably lost games
that seemed already won in very strange circumstances and the most relevant
case was game seven of the 1986 World Series against the New York Mets in
which, when they were already fixing the champagne to celebrate victory, in
the ninth inning with 2 outs, first baseman Buckner fumbled and could not
catch an easy rolling that mysteriously kept traveling to the outfield going
between his legs, leaving the stage ready for the triggering of long ball
offense on the part of the Mets, and the Red Sox once again remained with
the desires of winning. This was declared as a witch thing or a curse and
even the most skeptic persons began to believe there was something going
wrong. In the year 2003, they once again lost the American League pennant
against the Yankees and then, the idea of a curse became a law and a fixed
belief.
The 2004 season came and it was 86 years since Boston last title in 1918 and
as usual the Sox made it to the play-offs and swept their opponents to get
ready for the American League pennant title and the right to go to the World
Series playing against their old enemies, the Yankees, who had been like
ruthless executioners for them during all these years. Boston lost, of
course and as everyone expected, the first 3 games of the best of seven
series but the Bostonians, who stoically never lost their faith, always
believed in winning one day, but the miracle was nearer than they thought
because in the 9th inning of the 4th and last game for Boston, as they were
trailing once again, the spell, all of a sudden, broke and Boston, as
Sleeping Beauty awakened by a prince's kiss began, also mysteriously, to
win.
In a very weird way, not common in these strong leagues, the Red Sox swept
the Yankees in the 4 remaining games, putting them into total silence and
hypnotism, something never seen nor done in baseball before. From there,
they went to the World Series and also in a very strange way where
everything they did would turn out to be well done, put the powerful Saint
Louis Cardinals into deep sleep and turned the team with the most
devastating offense in the whole nation into helpless kids to beat them 4
games to none without the slightest resistance; something extremely unusual
and again suspicious or near the supernatural.
And to wrap up the essence of mystery of all these events, when 2 players
embraced in their joy for victory, they accidentally joined numbers 19 and
18 so that year 1918 could be seen in a moon eclipse night a few days away
from Halloween celebration. Was it a coincidence or in fact a broken spell?
If this was in fact the reverse of the curse, it was then shown that every
sentence or penalty has a expiry or fulfillment date when Fate or Providence
regard it so and there is no evil or suffering for life and besides, what is
left to live would be the opposite of the kind of life that has been led so
far, as a balance where you get the same as you give.
This lesson, taken from the field of sports, can also be applied to all
spheres of life and the case of Cuba fits that of the Red Sox as a ring to a
finger.
It is popularly said that the Cuban leader Fidel Castro, so far invincible
and unconquerable, has a spell that looks like that of the Red Sox, in this
case on his favor, and the Cuban people also have it but in the form of a
black cloud of punishment and suffering.
So far, all attempts to overthrow or physically eliminate Castro have also
strangely failed, with excessive luck on his side. It is also said that
Antonio Maceo had a luck amulet and for that reason he fought in endless
battles and came out unhurt but one day the amulet expired or turned against
him, as a saint that shows his bad side, as the month of January that shows
his back to the old and faces the new and as work of Destiny, the
fulfillment of his journey arrived and he died, also agreeing with the
principle of appearance, development and decay of empires, people or
countries, thus fulfilling another law of life, like natural phenomena in
opposition as the snow and the sun, in which everything is born, grows and
then dies as has been historically seen throughout places and times.
In the case of Cuba, the events described related to the Boston Red Sox
prove it so: there will soon be a reverse of that curse in which all evil
things torturing Cubans will hypnotize themselves to easily fall by their
own weight and in the same way everything Castro has wanted to do, has
turned out according to his desires and will, from that moment on,
everything will go wrong for the Cuban octopus because his amulet is already
off and the fulfillment of the sentence pending upon Cubans is close to an
end and so, in an equally strange but positive curse reverse, the Cuban
people will receive eye by eye 100% of what they lost, turned into paybacks
of glory and prosperity in an amazing outcome that only with a little
patience Destiny will grant us.
MARIO J TORRES
DECEMBER 2004
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