Grrr....Steve at Begging To Differ writes: Our drive was accentuated by radio coverage of the thrilling Game 5 victory of the Red Sox over the A's, a game that came down to the very last pitch and had Boston fans all over the world grimly pondering the Curse of the Bambino.I know the national media has given the impression that every time the Red Sox loses the fans blame the curse, but that is simply not the case here. Few people around here actually spend any time talking or thinking about it. Meanwhile, the national media tries to bring it up as frequently as possible (for example, yesterday Fox showed a banner in Oakland with Babe Ruth and "1918" multiple times, and brought up Bill Buckner after a ninth-inning ground ball). The only people around here who do bring it up are one writer trying to sell books and a few people trying to get on television. Unfortunately, reporters trying to get some Sox fans to talk about the curse outside Fenway Park will always be able to find a few people, even though 95% of the people blows off the reporter. But when what is shown to the audience are old grainy clips from 80 years ago, one writer talking about the curse as if it were something tangible, and two or three people talking about it outside the ballpark, the audience will inevitably get the impression that Red Sox fans are obsessed with the curse. I know it'll be hard to get the national media to deviate from this tedious narration, but we in the blogsphere don't have to buy into all this |
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