Football is a game of gods. Baseball is a game of curses

For the 7 out of 8 American households not tuned into the Cubs ill-fortuned drops of games 5, 6 and 7 of the National League Championship Series... Shame on you.

Most people don't believe in magic anymore because they don't bother looking. A good portion of the world, though, got to witness some lingering force from a more mystical time incinerate the bolstering hope (and egos) of Wrigley parishoners. Sure, you can look at each moment in the Cubs' demise and explain it all logically, but when you take the tragedy in whole... There is something far more powerful than you, I, Alex Gonzalez or Steve Bartman at work here. And all of baseball are its puppets.

Red Sox lost as well, by the way.

It is very satisfying for all whose allegiances lie in the south side of Chicago, that Cubs fans were partly responsible for game 6. They, moreso than the Cubs, are the bane of our baseball existence. But, more on this in an upcoming RF essay. Time to work.