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| Boston singles have a couple of advantages in | | | | game, despite his amazing performance up until |
| their favor. One: Boston is home to one of the | | | | then. And then, in the last inning, Bill Buckner let an |
| best online dating scenes in the country. Two: | | | | easy ground ball go through his legs, and they lost |
| Boston is home to one of the best baseball | | | | the game, and eventually the series. |
| teams in the country — the Red Sox. But | | | | What about us? Do we start looking causing our |
| it's not the proximity to Fenway Park that | | | | own problems? Do we pull ourselves out of the |
| provides the benefit for Boston singles, but the | | | | game for dubious reasons? Many Boston singles |
| example we can use to make our dating | | | | have done this. Everything seems to be going |
| experiences memorable, fun, and ultimately | | | | well, and then we start looking for reasons |
| successful. | | | | — any reasons — to end it before |
| The Boston Red Sox are one of two teams in | | | | we wind up in — gasp — a serious |
| the MLB that have been famously cursed. | | | | relationship. There is no sabotage like personal |
| (Although, unlike the Cubs, the Red Sox eventually | | | | sabotage. |
| managed to cure their curse... but more on that | | | | So how do we rid ourselves of such a curse? |
| later.) The Red Sox went through one of the | | | | The Red Sox tried everything from planting a |
| longest World Series dry spells in MLB history. For | | | | Red Sox hat at the summit of Mt. Everest to |
| 86 years the Sox suffered under the Curse | | | | burning a Yankees hat at its base. They even |
| of the Bambino. The basis of this curse stems | | | | brought in an exorcist to cleanse the stadium... and |
| from the sell of Babe Ruth to the Yankees. From | | | | yet, none of it worked. |
| that day forward the Yankees have been one of | | | | As Boston singles we can often try to find the |
| the most consistently successful teams in | | | | mystical or quick fix solution to our |
| baseball, winning twice as many World Series than | | | | problems. Some of them work better than |
| any other team. The Red Sox, on the other hand, | | | | others, speed or online dating for example, but |
| only had a lot of disappointment. But at least they | | | | the worst trap we can get caught in is the |
| had the Curse of the Bambino to blame it on. | | | | someone right for me will come along |
| How often do we do this as Boston singles? We | | | | fallacy. This is the idea that without putting forth |
| all go through dating slumps, times when we just | | | | actual effort, someone fantastic will just appear in |
| can't seem to do anything right. Do we blame it | | | | our lives. It never works. |
| on ourselves, or do we find a mystical cause for | | | | There are a lot of lessons Boston singles can |
| all our woes? | | | | learn from the Red Sox, but the most important |
| Maybe we loose our own Bambino. Maybe we had | | | | one is probably the most simple. The Red Sox |
| someone who was special, and for one reason or | | | | suffered 86 years of a dry spell, but never quit |
| another we let them go. Maybe it just | | | | trying. Year after year they kept working, the |
| seemed the the right thing to do at the | | | | fans kept cheering, and with serious dedication |
| time. And then, most annoying of all, once | | | | and a great lineup, they finally overcame the |
| they're gone they seem to have far more | | | | curse. It had nothing to do with their mystical, |
| success with their new relationship than the did | | | | intangible solutions, but everything to do with |
| with you. Is there a legitimate reason for their | | | | building a team that was composed of all the |
| success, or will we always believe that if we | | | | characteristics they need to win a World Series. |
| wouldn't have let them go, we would be the | | | | In 2004 it finally happened. The Red Sox won the |
| winning team right now? | | | | World Series. Not only did they win, but they |
| Sometimes, just when it seemed like the Red | | | | came back from a three game deficit to beat the |
| Sox were about to pull themselves out of their | | | | Yankees. No team in baseball history had ever |
| rut, or just when it seems like Boston singles | | | | come back from three games down, and yet the |
| might be able to put their problems behind them, | | | | Red Sox managed to pull it off despite the |
| something happens that pulls us right back down. | | | | curse. |
| For the Red Sox, the '86 World Series was that | | | | So, like the Red Sox, we can fight against our |
| moment. In the infamous sixth game, the Sox | | | | own perceived curses to overcome our |
| looked like they were ready to put it all behind | | | | slumps or dry spells until we find exactly what we |
| them, but it wasn't to be. For questionable | | | | are looking for. And who knows... |