The "Curse of the Bambino" is About to Strike Like Never Before

I am doing quite well in my baseball playoff picks. Only one I've missed is the NLCS (thanks to the vaunted Roger Clemens. Good thing I don't actually bet on this stuff). I looked especially prescient in my ALCS pick, which was looking really wobbly when the hated Yankees were up 3-0.

Now my World Series pick, the Boston Red Sox, on a torrid seven-game winning streak, are perched on the brink of their first MLB crown in 86 years.

Here's an addendum to that pick: the BoSox will lose the last four games and the Series to St. Louis.

It would be so perfect. Coming back from a 3-0 deficit to beat "the Evil Empire," the first baseball team (and third team in any major pro sport) to ever do so, only to turn around, take a 3-0 lead in the World Series, and return the favor.

C'mon, Red Sox fans, admit it: you're almost craving that collapse. Your team can't win a championship. Your team has to choke. They wouldn't be the Boston Red Sox any other way. Winning it all would turn your lives upside-down. It would throw your whole region into chaos. Heck, it'd almost be unAmerican.

You know it's true. And you know it's going to happen. Curt Schilling's season is done, and Pedro Martinez shot his wad last night. The rest of that rotation is going to get lit up like the Baghdad nighttime skyline.

Cardinals in seven. History will be made. Again.

And all will be right with the New England world.

Besides, from the look of things, the Patriots are never going to lose another game ever again.

UPDATE: Boston 3, St. Louis 0. Red Sox win Series 4-0.

You people have done it now. Don't say I didn't warn you....