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Article: POETIC JUSTICE FOR LOSERS: A CUBS-RED SOX WORLD SERIES.(Sports)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- September 27, 2003
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Byline: Bernie Lincicome
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
Poets are breathless over the possibility of the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs intersecting in the World Series, winner-take-all the metaphors.
It was John Cheever, after all, who proclaimed that all literary men are Red Sox fans. George Will decreed the Cubs a ``cruel addiction'' and blames his hard-nosed conservatism on them.
Intellect is a victim of whimsy nowhere more than when it addresses the significance of suffering over generations.
In these parts we look at the Rockies, with a history shorter than the Hawaiian alphabet, and pretend impatience. The Cubs and Red Sox have ...