The Curse of the Furries

[giza]

Apparently since the Brewers were in Pittsburgh during Anthrocon, they have done pretty poorly as far as winning games goes. They used to be in first place, and they have since slid down to second in their division. Here are the stats. If you look closely, they have lost 7 out of the last 10 games.

Also, if you look at their July schedule, they

Comments

[puctiger]

Pssh. They're just fizzling in the second half of the season like a lot of other teams did after the all-star break. And the Cubs are almost unstoppable. :)

[omnibahumut]

I think a donation of alcohol to the AC board members may clear them of this curse!

[drleo]

I don't even think you should call that an article. It's some schmuck blathering on his blog. And boy, sports fans can come up with the most mumbo-jumbo superstitious reasons for when their team does poorly, can't they?

[giza]

I call it free publicity.

[danruk]

A bit belated on commenting, but to you Giza, and the immediate comment above. I don't even think the article should be thought of inherrently badly written or the guy who wrote it as simply being a 'schmuck'. He's just a writer, on a blog, and had a small opinion, which when I read through it, seemed pretty tongue-in-cheek not quite so matter-of-fact. That's what makes this a little curious and fun. Our fandom gets some attention and some notoriety without necessarily the underlying negativity, and lets face it: It doesn't go into any furry sex fetishes like some other media reports and popular on-air shows have portrayed! that's GOT to be worth something more!

[electropaw]

Last Saturday I was at a St. Louis Cards game, and they happened to be playing the Brewers that day. The ballpark had this nifty board that you could send a text message to (for a fee) and have it display your message during the game. Too bad that they didn't have the board facing the Broadcaster's booth, otherwise I would of sent "Watch out Brewers!! The furries are here!"

[giza]

You know... I'm half tempted to snail mail some conbooks to the Brewers, along with a note saying, "Sorry you missed the con. You'll be buying memberships next year, right?"

:-)

[greenreaper]

I shipped a copy of Furry!/Best In Show to the writer responsible for the recent episode of Entourage earlier today. :-)

[electropaw]

The day after I found out about this HBO special, I watched it. My reaction was O.o

[simbab]

I can't stand the sports press. The pseudo-intellectual pretentiousness drives me crazy. Dude, it's a game. Get some perspective.