Colonel Sanders And Japanese Baseball??

[love_that_reefer]

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I found this story to be funny and it will interesting to see what in fact they do with the statue or if it indeed breaks the "curse".

[missionhockey21]

The curse of Colonel Sanders! I love it.

Bass was sort of a forerunner of Rhodes, but unlike Tuffy, he never had even a moment in the sun in the Majors. In fact, he was pretty awful. He somehow managed to play parts of season between 1977 and 1982 despite being a first baseman who couldn’t hit for power or average. In six seasons, he put up a putrid .284 on-base percentage and .326 slugging percentage and managed just nine home runs. In 1983, though, he went to Japan and turned into Ted Williams. While playing for the Hanshin Tigers he won four straight batting titles (including a season in which he hit a record .389) and won two straight Triple Crowns. He also nearly broke Oh’s single-season home run record but fell prey to the same sort of trickery. On top of that, he propelled the Tigers to a championship.
He also inadvertently gave birth to one of the funniest jinxes in sports history, the Curse of the Colonel. After the Tigers won the 1985 Japan Series, the reveling included fans who looked like the squad’s various players jumping into a canal in Dotonbori, Osaka. There was understandable difficulty finding a 6’1”, 210-pound bearded white guy to jump into the river in Bass’ stead. The Hanshin fans got creative, though, and chucked a life-sized plastic statue of Colonel Sanders they’d taken from a KFC off the bridge and called it a day. (After all, the Colonel was a white guy with a beard…close enough, right?)
After their Series win, though, the Tigers fell into an inexorable decline that seemed to get worse every year. Superstitious fans blamed the Colonel statue they’d drowned in the channel. They tried apologizing to the owner of the store from which they filched the statue. Divers and dredgers scoured the channel trying to find the missing mascot, but it’s still at large. And the Hanshin Tigers haven’t won the Japan Series since. Bass, on the other hand, is doing quite well as a Democratic state senator in Oklahoma.

[realmofotalk]

I celebrated Andruw Jones' third home run of the season by taking a giant dump in the river in Jones' stead.