the power of me

wow....this is one for the ages.......i hvae always known i have the incredible power to fortune into famine, how i can give the kiss of death to a sports franchise by rooting for them....how my teams seldom win championships ( see the long troubled history of the Mets & Rangers) and how the teams i hate anjoy riches( see Notre dame on a roll since i officially turned against them).....but even this one scares me.

sometime after the Yankees defeated the orioles on Friday night i sat at the bar at Ceasars AC , enjoying a cool refreshing glass of ale and pondering the baseball playoffs.......A1 on the agenda was the Nationals preserving a 6 run lead and eliminating the hated Cardinals ( check)......next up was the pending Yankee-Tigers series......i thought for a moment and declared to nobody in particular that my hatred for the Redwings was soooo great , that it extended to the Mich, Mich St, Motown music, the Lions and Yes the Tigers.......no self respecting hockey fan would have an interest in basketball, so the pistons are safe for the moment......and so by default I was rooting for the Yankees.

I cam out of the Jackson browne concert to witness the Cardinals rally back in the 9th inning to beat the Nationals.......as bad as this was, i reasoned that it was okay because the National Fans are also Capital Fans.....and Oriole Fans are Ravens fans.....so there was a silver lining.

now i have only rooted for the Yankees 3 times in this 16 year run of theirs......in 96 over the Braves for Metropolitans reasons and the Yanks won......i also rooted for them over the Diamondbacks after the 2001 attacks on our city ( Riviera blows saves in 9th inning to cost them world series) and 2004 over the redsox (yanks blow 3-0 series lead) .......powerful stuff this jinx of mine.

But Last night takes the case........not only did the Yanks loose game 1 ....but they lost their Captain to a broken ankle.......if Jeter only knew I was rooting for the Yanks he would have lifted himself for a pinch hitter in the 10th.

who's next ?