Conveniently ignoring his hometown club’s history of employing Bunyanesque fraud Mark McGwire, pretentious Big Mac apologist Tony La Russa and the sickening Joe Buck, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Dan O’Neil attempts to assemble a laundry list of reasons to hate the New York Mets, the most curious of which being “The Curse Of Keith”.
The Cardinals have not won a World Series since 1982, or since they traded Keith Hernandez to the Mets in the 1983 season. If you scramble the names of the people involved in the trade – Rick Wayne Ownbey, Neil Patrick Allen and Keith Hernandez, you can spell “Won’t Win Any,” or “Won’t Catch Any Break.”
You can also spell “Draw Another Beer.” – not sure about the significance of that.
There’s someone else involved in said trade ; Whitey Herzog, who played Mike Curb to Mex’s Velvet Underground in this instance. If you rearrange the letters to the White Rat’s name, you end up with THEE ORGY WHIZ. I’m pretty sure of the significance of that.
The Curse of Keith ? That’s good. Another fine piece of writing from the Post. Joseph Pulitzer is no doubt turning in his grave. I’m not quite sure I follow “Whitey Herzog, who played Mike Curb to Mex’s Velvet Underground” , but I
am sure that Whitey Herzog, Mike Curb and the Velvets have never before been mentioned in one sentence.
Ted,
I was trying to say in my usual roundabout way that Keith was run outta St. Louis not so much for baseball reasons but for bumming out Whitey with a case of the Snowy Sniffles.
During his tenure at MGM records prez, Mike Curb is commonly credited with giving the boot to the V.U. (and Zappa, I believe) for their druggy subject matter. Of course, it is entirely possible that Curb thought Neil Allen would make a better record.
Okay, now i follow you.
“it is entirely possible that Curb thought Neil Allen would make a better record.”
Or maybe Whitey thought Davy Allen would fine addition to the Cards.
Pond Scum: Everyone named Mookie.
I thought the term Pond Scum came from Hungo. All I know is that when I am a native St. Louisan that “did time” in the Army up in Fort Drum,NY. Anyway, when I moved back home in 2000, I did not change my lisense plates immediately and I got stuck in playoff game traffic (against the Mets) on Forest Park Parkway when a group of all American Cardinal fans mistook me for a Met fan. They screamed to the top of thier lungs, “POND SCUM. YOU ARE POND SCUM. GO BACK TO NY POND SCUM!” They were drunk and I thought they were going to get out of the car and kill me. I love this city! It’s my own darn fault. I should have ripped that disguisting lisense plate off the second I drove accross the PSB.