House of Paine

"the can" the wizzard behind the curtain

 
 so  was it  what 
the yawkey reminants  
done to the can 
that needed 
  forgiveness before...?



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 heres the real story thanx to mol tse 
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 Chris Helms Chronicle Staff
Thursday, October 7, 2004

When the Sox 
go all the way this year
 they can thank Cambridge 
 
     And Oil Can Boyd 
 
     That's because 
on Aug. 19 
at St. Peter's Field
 the Can lifted the Curse 
 
     Now, your average Sox fan 
believes the Curse 
was  
brought down on the Sox ..."
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yes the sox went into the tank 
after they sold
babe ruth 
 to the Yankees  
 
     But there
 were many  other curses
  many many others

take much over maligned 
 harry frazee
sure he did the dirty  deal 
with  col. ruppert
for Ruth 
BUTFUCK
THAT was only 
one of the ceaseless 
 talent stripping  
deals showman frazee made
BETWEEN 15 AND 24
ALL 
to keep his broadway bangles shakin'

in fact
 he got away with
 selling tris speaker 
 
the sox won a pair
 more "seriouses"
after lettin "the spoke"  go 

often overlooked 
 was losin'
the red auerbach of baseball 
 manger and GM ed barrow 
"the man who made ruth"
let go again
to the same
 yankee out fit
that clipped off Ruth 
and ace wade hoyte and and

FRAZEE TURNED THE SOX 
INTO RUPPERTS FARM TEAM 

  but then
ten years later
after passing thru 
several  scrawny hands  
      came tom Y ...
  buying up  
in the depths of the depression  
 one of 
the american leagues
forgotten franchises

 and bringing
 from the mills and forests 
of upper michigan
the yawkey cash 
and the yawkey  curse 
 that together 
   choked 
  the very soul 
  out of 
this shaby lace curtain 
      city of "rotting  dignities"
         and
       born to lose whiskey irish  

well the yawkey blight  
at least persisted 


tom tom never stopped
pouring his cash and vile ways 
over team after succesive team  
thru all those sour grapes  years
 here
from foxx and grove
thru ted bobby and dom
to  carl and jim 
from 
the high depression 
to the low  seventies
and even then
only to be succeeded
by worse still
 his pusilanimous greedy reminants
  including the heinous
 barge brained horses ass
      haywood sullivan 
and that the dick pulling 
quebec carinval king 
buddy larue 

i'll reserve a birth
purgatory perhaps 
only for  that infamous
  dry stick 
     of a last  wife 

and by the way
its under 
this  crowd's 
 front office
 the saga of 
the  can comes in 
     
  and its quite plausible 
that in release from 
the Curse of the Can
the  rest may also undo 
including  
 the Curse of the Bambino
that has held red sox nation
in total eclipse
and subjugation 
to the yankees  
 for over 80 years 
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   "  Indeed
 former Sox starter pitcher 
Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd 
has a real  beef

 He was slated to start 
Game 7 against the Mets 
in the 1986 World Series
 but manager John McNamara
 pitched Bruce Hurst instead." 
 
flash forward    
 to Cambridge on Aug. 19
 "the can comes 
 to pitch in Steve Buckley's
 charity Old-Time Baseball Game
 In a post-game interview 
with local sports caster willy  Basch
 the Can
  claimed he could
' singlehandedly
 restore the Sox's karmic balance'
 and in an act of absolution 
            he did"

    " 'I, Oil Can Boyd 
lift the Curse off 
 the Boston Red Sox' 
    barked  the Can 
  into  Basch's tape recorder"

 "The fans have suffered long enough
for what that  old yawkey organization
  did to me to many many   others 
over all those years  
   but today 
     I  hereby lift THE CURSE  
        this year the  sox are   going all the way " 
 
    " The Red Sox proceeded
 to win 13 out of their next 14 games
 securing a playoff berth 
and paving the way 
for their forthcoming World Championship "
 
   " that sick 
rotting organization 
would not put 
their World Series hopes 
in my  right hand so...
but now the yawkey crowd is  gone 
time to lift the curse"  
    
      irrefutable  evidence? 
 according to boyd himself

    " its a slam dunk
   look at some numbers 
     i was  supposed to pitch 
          Game 7 in '86
   now  It's been 86 years 
since the Sox 
        won a Series
 heres another 
    the  same doorway
           as in 86 
 that year 
    like this 
on the way to the series 
  the  Sox first
   got to get by   
   the Anaheim Angels 
and then its got to be the yankees right
if this is all to end at once "
                      
 
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 huuummm?
can you my man 

but.....


     hey my guess 
theres prolly a final curse 
we don't know about
yet
a curse on the little city
that can't relight the light 

that when lifted 
will blow open 
every link 
in the concatenation
of curses all at once

 click click click 
like castinettes 
they'll  start openning  their locks 

  butfuck 
the sub curse is lifted already 
the   yawkey-yankee  years 
    with all their 
    accumulated multiple curses

god love ya "can"
for showing a 
  forgiveness
this city itself 
has never shown  

by liftin yours
 

lets see
if thats enough ...

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forgetting 
the fucking seriouswin

i stillain't sure we've earned yet


to return to the all ready


the point remains 


the yankee thang 
      is now forever kyboshed 

like the old 
15 year
world series stymy 
 the  brooklyn dodgers
team and fans 
 suffered under 
suffered under  
with a hugely
  honorable dignity
  and hopefullness
never seen here since
  since game 7 in   46 
 
that brooklyn   indian sign
 of course  involved  
 the same damned  yankees 
lickin em each time 

then again we boston ingrates 
had the Russell celtics
who put a    zotz
 on the tinsel and tassle 
la  lakers 
THAT LASTED FOR 23 YEARS 
and then there's and the and the ...

but 
lets first see to 
the sox serious bid first 
 for the team's sake 
and 
of course 
for the sake
of the new fan generation
that "believed" 
 


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 i must admit
 i lack 
"the greed-need"  for braking 
this sox serious draught 

 well deserved curses 
or no curses
 other cities 
 have  comparable wait times 
cleveland chicago 
shit chicago has two dubbers 

none of these other cities
 seems to have 
ourolder fan bases
 grotesque  degree 
of faithless 
wounded narcissism 

so maybe i'd prefer 
to see
their curses lifted first 
if it weren't for
bostons radically different new fan base

god love em

after going down three one of em
said to a broadcast microphone

"don't worry
 they're do they're do "

shit up 3 to 0 
against the yanks
i'd still be quakin

i was till 
the fuckin last out of game 7 

"cowards die a thousand deaths
 but brave men die but once" 


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 ps

got to come totally klean here

for mezo 
winning the serious  
  will not stand up 
to that glorious yank sqwelch 

for full court heroism
thats
up there with 
the celtic come back 
against
 wilt's titanic sixers of '68 

fuck more even 

 nailin the yanks 
after spottin em 3 ?

shit 
thats up beyond sports 
up with 
 ali takin  foreman
 up there  
in micro  history 
 a tiny gadget version
of the glorious human triumph over
     age old adversities 
  a toy 
  of that  other october 
           come from way back
    and way below victory 

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