It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Cursed of Times

Sunday, June 22 2008

Sports curses get too much airtime around Cleveland. The Curse of Rocky Colavito or whatever you call it doesn't have the same cache as the Curse of the Bambino or the the Billy Goat Curse, but it's floating around out there. And after a particularly crushing (often season-ending) loss, it's on the tip of the tongue of the Cleveland sports media collective. Before I get started, I want to say that I reject all possible curse arguments, as a rational fan. But I'm not interested in debating whether curses are real or self-fulfilling or whatever. I'm interested in, as usual, numbers.Essential to a good sports curse is that the teams in question haven't won a championship in a long time. And this fact has inspired plenty of people to try to measure which city or team is the most "tortured" or "cursed". These exercises are uniformly pointless and stupid. Ashamedly, I'd like to throw in my two cents.The usual leaderboards are calculated pretty haphazardly and arbitrarily, with stuff like a...
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