You may remember a few days ago I mentioned that we had a special bottle of wine for the World Series. When we received it, I said, “if the Indians win the World Series, we’re gonna open this bottle. If the Indians lose the World Series, we’re gonna open this bottle.”
Well, the bottle is open (and empty, I might add.) I won’t dwell on the World Series except to say that I’m not a huge baseball fan, but I watched every minute of all seven games… It would have been nice to have another championship in Cleveland, but neither team has anything to be ashamed of…
And I hope I get another bottle of that wine for next year — I’m pretty sure the World Series will be played in Cleveland again.
I did a little bit of extensive research and learned that from 1969 until 1989, the Indians finished in last place or second-to-last place in 16 of those 21 seasons. In the other five seasons, they finished third-to-last. But — from 1994 until today, they’ve mad the playoffs nine times and came within an out of winning the World Series twice. Even though I liked the old stadium, the suffering doesn’t seem quite as bad in the new one.
So the curse or streak has ended for the Cubs — the new owner is now the Indians — that one ends in 2017.
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