It’s Official. The World Series will be the Boston Red Sox against the St. Louis Cardinals. And I’m rooting for the Cards. Ok, I’m not really, I don’t care about the Cards. Sure they have a great team and I’m sure they’ll be competitive, but that’s not what this is about for me this year.

It’s about the Curse. The Curse of the Bambino. I’ve heard a lot of people talking about how the Curse has been broken, because the BoSox beat the Evil Empire. I don’t think so. The Curse doesn’t say that the Yanks own the Sox. It says that the Sox will never win another World Series. And not only that, but they’ll get close, oh so close, and then have it snatched away from them. It’s been well documented. So I say the Curse is alive and well and waiting. The Boston fans know it too. I watched them last night. Damon hit a grand slam, they cheered but moments later that has that look. The look that says, I don’t know when and I don’t know what, but its coming.

You see I’m rooting for the Curse. I feel that the Curse is good for baseball. I mean really that’s what has everyone watching again this year, isn’t it? I think so. I think a fair amount of people, myself included, were sure the Astros would win, just because Roger Clemens against the Sox in the World Series makes too much sense. It didn’t work out that way, and that’s fine. The Curse will find another way. It must.

What if the Red Sox won? Then what? I’m pretty sure Boston would self-destruct before too long. The curse is a part of them, its older than most of them. They wouldn’t know what to do with out it. And baseball needs it. Its part of the lore. Its right up there with Satchel Paige and The Babe himself calling the Homerun he is about to hit. Baseball has enough problems. Steroids, escalating salaries, Pete Rose. Can it afford a world with out the Curse?

I say no. I need the Curse. We all do. So with all do respect to the peoples of Boston and St. Louis. I won’t be rooting for either of your teams. I’ll be rooting for the curse. Looking for that moment, (you Red Sox fans know the one I’m talking about) that quirk that will snatch a World Series Victory from The Red Sox. Again.