The silver lining of the Yankees WS win for Orioles fans: The Curse of the Moose was real

[Tommy_Carcetti]

FOR IT WAS WRITTEN THAT SO LONG AS MICHAEL COLE MUSSINA WORE THE UNIFORM OF THE NEW YORK YANKEES, THE YANKEES WOULD NEVER WIN A WORLD SERIES TITLE



October 26, 2000--Yankees defeat the Mets to win the 2000 World Series, their third straight, and fourth of the last five, World Series victories.



November 30, 2000--In hopes of winning a World Series ring, Pitcher Mike "Moose" Mussina shuns the Baltimore Orioles organization and signs a 6 year, $85 Million contract with the Orioles' hated AL East rivals, the New York Yankees



November 4, 2001--Two outs away from a fourth straight Yankees World Series victory in Game 7 of the 2001, the Yankees blow their lead, culminating in Luis Gonzalez's walk-off single to win the game and the series for the Arizona Diamondbacks



October 5, 2002--The Anaheim Angels defeat the Yankees in the American League Division Series.



October 25, 2003--The upstart Florida Marlins, a team with the lowest payroll in baseball, shock the Yankees--the team with the highest payroll in baseball--by defeating the Yanks in six games and celebrating on the field in front of a stunned Yankee Stadium crowd.



October 20, 2004--After the Yankees having a 3-0 ALCS advantage over their hated rival, the Boston Red Sox, the Yankees proceed to be the first team ever to blow a 3-0 series lead and are eliminated by the Red Sox.



October 10, 2005--The Anaheim Angels--err, Los Angeles Angeles of Anaheim--defeat the Yankees in the American League Division Series.....again.



October 7, 2006--The Detroit Tigers defeat the Yankees in the American League Division Series.



October 8, 2007--The Cleveland Indians defeat the Yankees in the American League Division Series.



September 28, 2008--Mike Mussina pitches his final game of his career, and records his first and only 20 win season. None of those 20 wins matter, however, as the Yankees had already been eliminated from playoff contention five days before. Mussina officially retires on November 20, 2008, never having won the World Series ring that he believed he would earn as a member of the New York Yankees, and the reason he turned down a contract from the Baltimore Orioles franchise that raised him and whose fans loyally supported him.



November 4, 2009--Now officially free of the cursed Mussina albatross, the Yankees defeat the Philadelphia Phillies in six games to win the World Series.

AND SO ENDS THE SAGA OF THE CURSE OF THE MOOSE

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Now, if only the Orioles could give us a fuckin' winning season already..........Jeez, guys......

[TZ]

1. Too bad the same can't be said of that ahole Teixera...

I'll never forget the Marylander playing the O's AND the Nats to get what he wanted from the Yankees.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. One of these days, TZ, one of these days....

....the Orioles fans will finally get their karmatic due.

As for Nats fans, well.....that's a rather tall order for karma........:P

[madinmaryland]

9. the Orioles will be in the World Series facing the Pittsburgh Pirates and

once again lose in SEVEN games!

:D

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Hey, I'll take that.

However, the Pirates must switch to these uniforms:



No exceptions!

[Chan790]

4. Actually that was one of the things that came out afterwards...

the O's never even made him an offer and wouldn't return his agent's calls. The O's weren't played, they weren't even in it. I really wanted him to go to DC though if he wasn't going to Boston.

[Initech]

8. That douchebag also played my team for chumps. Fuck him and Scott Boras.

[Chan790]

3. An Orioles Winning Season?

Well...I hate to say it, but it's just bad GMing on your part.

People are always going to blame the Red Sox and Yankees for the inability of AL East teams in the US south of Newark, NJ to compete, but it's simply bullshit. Toronto has thrown together competitive seasons, TB is a powerhouse; the Orioles haven't done jack or shit in decades. It's very very simple...I can think of no other team in baseball that makes the kind of boneheaded moves (across something like 3 GMs even...makes me think it's Pete Angelos because he's never been shy to admit he has his hand in the day-to-day operations of the front office.) the Orioles do, with the exception of the NY Mets...and even every Mets fan knows that it's just Omar Minaya and the Rasputin effect he seems to have over the Wilpon family. I can't say I don't know a single Mets fan who doesn't want him fired; and somehow he doesn't get the ax. He gets other quality baseball people fired instead. Some people would say that the Damned Yankees also make these sorts of boneheaded moves (signing Carl Pavano for far above market value to keep him out of Boston blue, for example)...but the Yankees go into it knowing they can buy-off their mistakes (Sign a clunker, trade him away with his entire salary for trash just to free up a roster spot or release them outright...they do it all the time.) so it's not stupidity, it's strategic.

Seriously, a guy who grew up in your backyard and was a life-long O's fan until he entered MLB was a free agent last off-season (and was the gem of the available players) and you never made him an offer. The Nats did, the Red Sox did, the Yankees did, the Angels did and even the Dodgers did. Oh, I know...he wanted too much money...you didn't even try and see if he might take less to go to his hometown team. When was the last time you seriously pursued a FA? When was the last time the O's dedicated any real resources to scouting to find that diamond in the rough? You've been terrible forever and yet you have one of the worst farm system in baseball. How?! The O's suck because they feel no motivation to improve. Not in the front office. Not in the owner's box. Not on the field. Not in the standings.

It's bad management. If I were a MLB player, I'd be pissed to be traded to Baltimore...it's Shawshank.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Yeah, and....

...what's your point? The O's front office sucks? I can tell you that.

As an Orioles fan, I can only look to the 2008 Rays as inspiration. We will have a winning season eventually....and I think the most recent crop of youngsters has the potentially to finally gel and get us over the hump.

[Chan790]

6. It's I guess that y'all seem so okay with it...

I was at the Hard Times in College Park last night and brought this up and some drunk guy tried to tell me that "They try really hard and you can't really ask more of them." That's more rule than exception talking to O's fans.

1.) I think my point was they don't try at all.
2.) This isn't elementary school art class...you don't get effort points.
3.) I'd be going "Hulk-smash" if my Red Sox were this consistently bad...I certainly wouldn't be resignedly and fatalistically accepting it.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. Yeah, yeah, yeah....

....we still have more World Series rings in the past 50 years than you guys do. :P

[madinmaryland]

10. Tampa Bay is a Power House??

:wtf:

They had one good season, followed up by an average season.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. They were over .500 this year.

By 2000s Orioles standards, that's the equivilent of the 1927 Yankees.

[msanthrope]

11. Still bitter over Jeffrey Maier, eh? ? n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. Hell yeah, that little shit.

Dumbass got paraded around like some sort of hero.

[flvegan]

15. Yeah, but...he's got $85 million. n/t

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. He could probably buy one of the WS rings from a 2009 Yankee with that money. nt