The Curse: Alive and Well [Archive]

Elvis

09-06-2005, 12:11 PM

donzblock

09-06-2005, 04:34 PM

Yes, I admit it...you are right. :ughh

The Dodgers will never win a championship in Los Angeles... after moving from Brooklyn, some in NY said the Dodgers will be cursed from the year 1958 onward and never even win a pennant, and I didn't want to believe it...but now...after 47 long, agonizing years without a World Championship...yes, I beleive it.... You Brooklyners were right after all...the Dodgers will never win in LalA land :ughh

Oh, wait... Never mind. :cool:
Nobody ever said that the LA team would be cursed from 1958 on. When I formulated my Curse, I had to do extensive research to make sure that I was not duplicating someone else's curse. Curses get ornery when they discover they are redundant. Only Brooklynites (there is no such thing as a Brooklyner) would have had a reason to curse the LA team, but all Brooklynites were too stunned to act.

My Curse was made retroactive to 1989. That was as far back as I could go without disrupting the space-time continuum. It will suffice. You are doomed for at least the next century. Get used to it. I suggest you pass the time during the baseball season by devoting yourself to word puzzles, preferably double acrostics. Occasionally, you will come across one whose answer will tell you how to lift the Curse. But the instructions will be cryptic, and the solution will not be easy. On second thought, you would be better off giving yourself up to despair.

Elvis

09-06-2005, 04:50 PM

:ughh Ok, well that makes more sense then. I can guarantee one thing... that curse sure as hell wont be broken this year! lol

donzblock

09-07-2005, 04:33 AM

:ughh Ok, well that makes more sense then. I can guarantee one thing... that curse sure as hell wont be broken this year! lol
Or next. Or the one after that. My calculations indicate that your window of opportunity may open on August 31, 2103.

Francoeurstein

09-07-2005, 04:55 AM

Or next. Or the one after that. My calculations indicate that your window of opportunity may open on August 31, 2103.

Then baseball will be all high-tech with more highly safisticated equipment.

DODGER DEB

09-07-2005, 06:30 AM

Nobody ever said that the LA team would be cursed from 1958 on. When I formulated my Curse, I had to do extensive research to make sure that I was not duplicating someone else's curse. Curses get ornery when they discover they are redundant. Only Brooklynites (there is no such thing as a Brooklyner) would have had a reason to curse the LA team, but all Brooklynites were too stunned to act.

My Curse was made retroactive to 1989. That was as far back as I could go without disrupting the space-time continuum. It will suffice. You are doomed for at least the next century. Get used to it. I suggest you pass the time during the baseball season by devoting yourself to word puzzles, preferably double acrostics. Occasionally, you will come across one whose answer will tell you how to lift the Curse. But the instructions will be cryptic, and the solution will not be easy. On second thought, you would be better off giving yourself up to despair.

One could also conclude that "The Curse of Brooklyn" brought McCourt, and his band of baseball incompetents, in for the sole purpose of running this group (team?) into the ground?

What do you think, Professor?

c.

donzblock

09-07-2005, 06:45 AM

One could also conclude that "The Curse of Brooklyn" brought McCourt, and his band of baseball incompetents, in for the sole purpose of running this group (team?) into the ground?

What do you think, Professor?

c.
The Curse was programmed to find an owner for the LA team who came as close as possible to the Montgomery-Giles consortium that has been running the Phillies into the ground for the past quarter of a century. Finding McCourt was an absolutely brilliant touch. The next owner will be even worse. (And the example of the Phillies proves that in McCourt, the LA team has not reached bottom.)

DODGER DEB

09-07-2005, 09:00 AM

Elvis

09-07-2005, 04:36 PM

Or next. Or the one after that. My calculations indicate that your window of opportunity may open on August 31, 2103.

Hey, I'd be 132 years old! :ughh

I'm hiring a voodoo witch doctor with a few tricks up his sleeves.

Wait, do witch doctors have sleeves? :confused:

Steve Jeltz

09-10-2005, 02:15 AM

The Curse was programmed to find an owner for the LA team who came as close as possible to the Montgomery-Giles consortium that has been running the Phillies into the ground for the past quarter of a century. Finding McCourt was an absolutely brilliant touch. The next owner will be even worse. (And the example of the Phillies proves that in McCourt, the LA team has not reached bottom.)

The next owner will be in the mold of William F. Baker, owner of the Phillies from 1913-1930. Baker was the owner who singlehandedly led the Phillies into a period of darkness never before or since seen in pro or college sports. It is said that the Phillies have yet to recover from Baker's reign of terror and evidence today supports this fact, i.e. Giles and Montgomery, Ed Wade.

After this terrible era in Dodgers history,an era where superstars and HOF's will be traded or sold to rivals, a new owner will rise from the ashes, an owner even worse than Baker. This man will be in the mold of one Gerry Nugent, famous for naming his wife GM of the Phillies in the late 1930's and early 1940's. With no players to sell or trade, this owner, along with his GM wife, will have to sell the furniture in the Dodger's office to make ends meet.

A terrible time awaits Dodgers fans.The Dodgers will enter darkness only charted by the Phillies. But the curse will end in 2104. :)

Yankeebiscuitfan

09-10-2005, 02:56 AM

mojorisin71

09-10-2005, 01:26 PM

Come on guys.

I am not the biggest LA Dodgers fan myself. I also think the Dodgers belong to Brooklyn.

But what sense does it make to stir the pot around here?

The only things you will get in this way are fights. And isn't that something we DON'T want in our little community?

It's okay, YR. I don't think you'll find too many Dodger fans in LA that are optimistic about the team's direction in leadership and level of play. So naturally, their disdain of the front office is shared by the Brooklynites.

Bluesteve32

09-10-2005, 02:54 PM

DODGER DEB

09-10-2005, 03:31 PM

I bet many Dodger fans were not real happy with the Fox ownership, especially after the O'Malleys.

Actually, "The Brooklyn Curse" was working very well, even then, by laying the ground work, in allowing the team to be sold to Murdoch/Fox, for the future sale to the band of total incompetents that was to come after them......the McCourts!

c.

Bluesteve32

09-10-2005, 05:39 PM

Steve Jeltz

09-10-2005, 10:09 PM

Come on guys.

I am not the biggest LA Dodgers fan myself. I also think the Dodgers belong to Brooklyn.

But what sense does it make to stir the pot around here?

The only things you will get in this way are fights. And isn't that something we DON'T want in our little community?

Ahh, I'm just having a little bit of fun. It is okay to have fun isn't it?

Yankeebiscuitfan

09-10-2005, 11:59 PM

Ahh, I'm just having a little bit of fun. It is okay to have fun isn't it?

No. This is a very serious forum.. :p

Elvis

09-11-2005, 12:18 AM

Why would Angelinos care about this thread anyway? This isn't an uptight kind of city that even bothers retorting to silly "attacks" by people who aren't from here anyway.

(Yawn)

:cool:

theAmazingMet

09-11-2005, 12:33 AM

Why would Angelinos care about this thread anyway? This isn't an uptight kind of city that even bothers retorting to silly "attacks" by people who aren't from here anyway.

(Yawn)

:cool:

Why should they seeing how their team is isn't "from here anyway" but is from brooklyn.

Bluesteve32

09-11-2005, 01:13 AM

Why should they seeing how their team is isn't "from here anyway" but is from brooklyn.

There is ONE baseball team that is from here and not anyplace else.

Elvis

09-11-2005, 02:15 AM

Why should they seeing how their team is isn't "from here anyway" but is from brooklyn.

I wouldn't talk about that, seeing as your entire state, including Brooklyn should really still belong to the American Indian.

You stole their land, we stole your team, He stole the election, she stole some of my french fries, someone stole my hubcaps...whatever. :) :) :)

Tommy, what's your opinion of this "Curse" thread? ANSWER (http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/opinion.wav)

:rolleyes:

Elvis

09-11-2005, 02:18 AM

There is ONE baseball team that is from here and not anyplace else.

I didn't know you were a Kings fan.

donzblock

09-11-2005, 04:08 AM

I wouldn't talk about that, seeing as your entire state, including Brooklyn should really still belong to the American Indian.

You stole their land, we stole your team, He stole the election, she stole some of my french fries, someone stole my hubcaps...whatever. :) :) :)

Keep going. You stole California from whom? You stole which river? (In the process, you also destroyed it and the thousands of species that depended on it.)

The Curse, however, is being kind to you in that it is responding only to your theft of a baseball team.

I can see that the pressure this awful thing is putting on you is starting to wear you down. Try doing some word puzzles: today's Times has a terrific crossword entitled "Making a Left." If you can find the T, you might be able to lift the Curse 50 years before it is scheduled to expire.

Elvis

09-11-2005, 11:41 AM

Hey, Vin, do you believe this curse? ANSWER (http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/believe.wav)

mojorisin71

09-11-2005, 12:23 PM

Keep going. You stole California from whom? You stole which river? (In the process, you also destroyed it and the thousands of species that depended on it.)

The Curse, however, is being kind to you in that it is responding only to your theft of a baseball team.

I can see that the pressure this awful thing is putting on you is starting to wear you down. Try doing some word puzzles: today's Times has a terrific crossword entitled "Making a Left." If you can find the T, you might be able to lift the Curse 50 years before it is scheduled to expire.

If a Curse is being kind to someone, then it's not really a Curse at all.

donzblock

09-11-2005, 01:36 PM

If a Curse is being kind to someone, then it's not really a Curse at all.
Not so. The Curse is making life miserable for the fans of the LA team in the NL; it is making life wonderful for some Brooklyn Dodger fans.

donzblock

09-11-2005, 01:38 PM

Hey, Vin, do you believe this curse? ANSWER (http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/believe.wav)
Poor deluded Vin. Vin's insanity became apparent during a word association game when he responded to "14" with "Mike Scioscia."

Bluesteve32

09-11-2005, 11:38 PM

I didn't know you were a Kings fan.

I remember when Rogie Vachon was traded to the Kings!

1974-5 Kings had several players that later became head coaches in the NHL: Bob Murdoch, Bob Berry, Rogie Vachon, Butch Goring, Mike Murphy, Mike Corrigan, Dan Maloney all coached at the NHL level at some time or another.

Psst: The Angels never played anyplace outside the Greater LA area. ;)

donzblock

10-23-2005, 04:51 AM

I've been trying to tweak the Curse into provoking the LA NL team to put little Eddie Wade into its front office, but the Curse insists that would be overkill. Just how bad is your GM?

DODGER DEB

10-23-2005, 05:24 AM

I've been trying to tweak the Curse into provoking the LA NL team to put little Eddie Wade into its front office, but the Curse insists that would be overkill. Just how bad is your GM?

He's a "tweak" away from little Eddie Wade, Professor.

c.

mojorisin71

10-23-2005, 11:36 AM

Ed Wade for manager?

DownUnderDodger

10-25-2005, 12:56 AM

Not so. The Curse is making life miserable for the fans of the LA team in the NL; it is making life wonderful for some Brooklyn Dodger fans.
Hmmmmmm......I studied the list of NL teams and even skipped thru the list of AL teams, and amazingly I could not find a Brooklyn Dodgers. I thought I may have missed something so I did the same for the lists from the last 40 or so years and still no Brooklyn Dodgers :noidea :confused: I guess Brooklyn Dodger fans must be phantoms, just like what the team apparently is!! :p :crazy

Anyway I will be following the curse very closely.......and like most, if not all Los Angeles Dodgers fans, I don't expect it to end soon, but I hope to be alive when it does. :D

donzblock

10-25-2005, 04:59 PM

Hmmmmmm......I studied the list of NL teams and even skipped thru the list of AL teams, and amazingly I could not find a Brooklyn Dodgers. I thought I may have missed something so I did the same for the lists from the last 40 or so years and still no Brooklyn Dodgers :noidea :confused: I guess Brooklyn Dodger fans must be phantoms, just like what the team apparently is!! :p :crazy

Anyway I will be following the curse very closely.......and like most, if not all Los Angeles Dodgers fans, I don't expect it to end soon, but I hope to be alive when it does. :D
Mr. Down Under, you are trifling with forces that are more menacing than you can imagine. Your screams of anguish this past summer were quite audible to those of us on the other side of the world, the civilized side.

The worst thing you can do is to deny the existence of the Brooklyn Dodgers and, by extension, the Brooklyn Dodger fan. I am not the only one capable of invoking a curse. In fact, in the world of the occult, I am small potatoes, indeed, but the vicious little Curse I brought down upon your heads will keep those of you who support the LA NL Abomination miserable for the rest of this century whether or not you live that long.

And you certainly do not want to anger the Ancient Ones. I saw them several weeks ago plodding ponderously along Bedford Avenue, their eyes reddened with pain, their mouths twisted horribly by their silent screaming. They have not forgotten. They wait. They lurk. They shall pounce. Provoke them, sir, at your peril. Provoke, them, sir, and you will discover that the vast distances that separate the civilized world from the wastelands of Australia will not protect you. And once again we will hear your screams.

Apologize, sir, before it is too late! Apologize immediately, sir, lest the agony resume a thousandfold.

DownUnderDodger

10-27-2005, 04:49 AM

Mr. Down Under, you are trifling with forces that are more menacing than you can imagine. Your screams of anguish this past summer were quite audible to those of us on the other side of the world, the civilized side..

You are so kind as to address me as Mr........DUD will do :D My "screams of anguish" are neither as loud nor as long term as those of the so-called Brooklyn Dodgers fans ;) or should I say phantoms of the past!

The worst thing you can do is to deny the existence of the Brooklyn Dodgers and, by extension, the Brooklyn Dodger fan.

I do not and never will deny the existence of the Brooklyn Dodgers....well before my time but obviously a very special baseball organisation during their time. As for Brooklyn Dodger's fans, I guess you must have lots of old 8 track movies to drool over!!

They wait. They lurk. They shall pounce. Provoke them, sir, at your peril. Provoke, them, sir, and you will discover that the vast distances that separate the civilized world from the wastelands of Australia will not protect you. And once again we will hear your screams.

But you are wrong dear donzblock, the vast expanses of the Pacific Ocean will ensure that no such curse will ever traverse the globe to that extent. However, the power of the Los Angeles Dodger fan will overcome any difference in distance to ensure any such curse set by phantoms of the past will be blown away.......it may take a few years but it will be blown away. And in my life time!! :D

Apologize, sir, before it is too late! Apologize immediately, sir, lest the agony resume a thousandfold.

Apologize I do....but only to avoid you any injury to yourself in trying to inflict a curse which is uninflictable (is that a word :confused: ).

Power to the Los Angeles Dodgers and all who support this fine organisation!! :gt

donzblock

10-27-2005, 06:14 AM

You are so kind as to address me as Mr........DUD will do :D My "screams of anguish" are neither as loud nor as long term as those of the so-called Brooklyn Dodgers fans ;) or should I say phantoms of the past!
We will start counting now: "phantoms of the past" will be #1.

As for Brooklyn Dodger's fans, I guess you must have lots of old 8 track movies to drool over!! That will be #2.

But you are wrong dear donzblock, the vast expanses of the Pacific Ocean will ensure that no such curse will ever traverse the globe to that extent. However, the power of the Los Angeles Dodger fan will overcome any difference in distance to ensure any such curse set by phantoms of the past will be blown away.......it may take a few years but it will be blown away. And in my life time!! :D
Even though the above insults the power of the Curse, inflates the ability of the LA fan to deal with it, and denies once again the reality of the Brooklyn Dodger fan, we will be merciful and call the above #3.

Apologize I do....but only to avoid you any injury to yourself in trying to inflict a curse which is uninflictable (is that a word :confused: ).

Power to the Los Angeles Dodgers and all who support this fine organisation!! :gt
Apologies for the wrong reason do not count. That is #4.

You have succeeded in making the Curse much worse than it would have been. To get some idea of what lies in store for you, observe what Phillies' fans are currently experiencing. Multiply that by 4, and that should give you an inkling of what you have unleashed against yourself and all others of your persuasion. You probably do not deserve the horror of what is about to unfold, but the consequences of blindness will always be tragic. It is now too late to repent. Find a place in the arid wastelands of Australia and try to hide. Good luck, sir.

Ravenlord

10-27-2005, 09:59 AM

this Dodgers curse crap is more annoying than listening to the IRA justify its existance, and less of a base in reality.

donzblock

10-27-2005, 04:36 PM

DownUnderDodger

10-27-2005, 09:32 PM

Ravenlord, dost thou profess annoyance to gladden my soul? Prithee, whither goest thine reality? Doth it still bloweth in the North Wind? Prithee, what didst thou doeth with thine wind? Methinks 'twas a tail wind! Canst thou confirm?
My gosh - the Brooklyn Dodgers DID exist in the Shakesperean era!! You hold your age very well dear donzblock!! :laugh :laugh
By the way, I am wearing a patch over my eye so I can get the feel of the Pirates - it is having no effect!! ;)

donzblock

10-30-2005, 04:12 AM

Mr. Down Under, you are a formidable foe. You managed to get rid of De Podesta despite the explicit programming of the Curse that was intended to keep him in the front office until his or the team's death, whichever came first.

But the Curse is on its own, as you know (I lost control of it once I turned it loose), and even though I cannot imagine why it allowed the LA team to get rid of one of its key liabilities, I am confident that the Curse is devising something even more horrifying for your guys. What could that be? Could McCourt be thinking about Little Eddie Wade?

Will the announcement be made on Halloween?

DownUnderDodger

11-02-2005, 04:17 PM

But the Curse is on its own, as you know (I lost control of it once I turned it loose), and even though I cannot imagine why it allowed the LA team to get rid of one of its key liabilities......

You have made a mistake by letting it go dear donzblock! Without any control the 'curse' will simply spin around in circles untill crawls into itself and dies!! Look what happened with DePodesta.......that is just the start!!

donzblock

11-03-2005, 04:51 AM

You have made a mistake by letting it go dear donzblock! Without any control the 'curse' will simply spin around in circles untill crawls into itself and dies!! Look what happened with DePodesta.......that is just the start!!
One of the insidious features of this Curse is that it instills false confidence in skeptics. You are about to step off a cliff and you don't even know it. Be sure to wear your parachute.

DODGER DEB

11-03-2005, 07:42 AM

One of the insidious features of this Curse is that it instills false confidence in skeptics. You are about to step off a cliff and you don't even know it. Be sure to wear your parachute.

Maybe WE should lend them the Parachute Jump at Coney Island. What do you think, Professor? I mean, WE all know how great it works.

c.

donzblock

11-03-2005, 10:42 AM

Maybe WE should lend them the Parachute Jump at Coney Island. What do you think, Professor? I mean, WE all know how great it works.

c.
Yes, the Coney Island Parachute would be perfect for Down Under. He would probably hit the ground at a speed that would propel him right through the crust to Australia.

DownUnderDodger

11-03-2005, 08:42 PM

Yes, the Coney Island Parachute would be perfect for Down Under. He would probably hit the ground at a speed that would propel him right through the crust to Australia.
Cheaper than flying!! :laugh
I will now purposely avoid walking near cliffs, especially if there is an ill wind!! :D

donzblock

11-04-2005, 09:59 AM

Cheaper than flying!! :laugh
I will now purposely avoid walking near cliffs, especially if there is an ill wind!! :D
You do that; there is no reason why you have to suffer the same fate as your team.

DownUnderDodger

11-06-2005, 07:15 PM

You do that; there is no reason why you have to suffer the same fate as your team.

T'is not fate dear donzbloc, t'is the dumb dealings of some dodgy Dodgers :noidea :laugh There is no curse, nor will there be :p The Dodgers will be resurrected sooner than you think!! :gt

donzblock

11-07-2005, 06:30 AM

T'is not fate dear donzbloc, t'is the dumb dealings of some dodgy Dodgers :noidea :laugh There is no curse, nor will there be :p The Dodgers will be resurrected sooner than you think!! :gt
For your own mental health, it is probably best if you imagine that there is no Curse. To help you in that regard, I will support your fantasy whenever possible.

DownUnderDodger

11-07-2005, 07:35 PM

Thank you dear donzblock.......your support is very much appreciated. I will be glad to support your fantasy of a "curse" as well. You scratch my back I will scratch yours ;) :D

UnderPressure

11-08-2005, 10:34 AM

Question for Brooklynites:

Do you guys root for the Giants whenever the Dodgers play them?

mojorisin71

11-08-2005, 06:35 PM

From what I've seen here, they root for no one on the West Coast.

DownUnderDodger

11-08-2005, 07:23 PM

They pull out their old eight-tracks (some may have had them converted to DVD or downloaded to iPods) and root for the Brooklyn Dodgers, while dreaming up a form of curse they think they have cast over the current Dodgers :laugh :laugh :laugh :p They also love nothing better than to spice up this forum, which is fun for me :crazy :D

Elvis

10-02-2006, 03:46 PM

Actually, "The Brooklyn Curse" was working very well, even then, by laying the ground work, in allowing the team to be sold to Murdoch/Fox, for the future sale to the band of total incompetents that was to come after them......the McCourts!

c.

2 postseasons in 3 years of ownership. If that's incompetent, then I hope the Dodgers never to be otherwise. :D

By the way, your curse is working great - Another thrilling, exciting, dramatic, delicious, fun season of Dodger baseball! And another trip to the playoffs!

Keep that curse working its magic, Professor & Deb! I've never has such fun as I've had this season! :waving :gt