Breaking the Curse of the Black Sox - 1919

• Please refer to The Maginot Mind blog of Sunday, October 02, 2005 of Alfonso Ramon Lopez!

Notwithstanding the Chicago ~ north-side south-side thing/rivalry... The Chicago White Sox won the World Series last night!

Good for an 11-1 postseason record that ranks among the finest in the annals of the sport. Good for the team's first world championship since 1917, two years before the Black Sox threw the World Series and scarred a franchise.

A team that relied not on stars, but cohesion! A steely trust as any game went on, one or another of them would do something to win it. A potent compound (code: "chemistry") of ingredients that clicked, when no one else saw it coming.

In a sport of curse's:

• Curse of the Black Sox

• Curse of the Bambino

This team won without a 0.300 hitter. This team ended an eighty-eight year drought (1917) to become world champions.

:::However, all-time favorite teams are still the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers, and the 1927 New York Yankees!:::