[lit-ideas] Sox - Moon
- From: "Steven G. Cameron" <stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:25:45 -0400
For your whimsical pleasure -- from a friend.
TC,
/Steve Cameron, NJ
World Series Lunar Eclipse
On Wednesday evening, for the first time in the known history of the
universe, a total lunar eclipse will take place during a game of the
World Series. Visible to all those in attendance, and anybody else in
the hemisphere, this alignment of cosmic objects - the Sun, the Earth,
and the Moon may be the sign from above that the Boston Red Sox have
been looking for to ensure defeat of the St. Louis Cardinals.
This would not be the first time that a cosmic phenomenon is credited
with somebody else's demise. As portrayed on the Bayeux tapestry, a
visit from a cosmic object later known as Halley's Comet, portended the
1066 fall of Harold, Earl of Wessex to the invading hordes of William
the Conqueror.
Problem is, this sort of analysis works for whoever wins, because for
all battles, one side falls while the other side rises--had William the
Conquerer lost, the Harold ould surely have invoked the comet as a sign
of that fact. And, of course, there's nothing to stop the Cardinals
from seeing the eclipse as their sign. It will, after all, take place
during their three-game home stand in St. Louis.
People like think of comets and eclipses as rare phenomena, and thus
imbued with deep meaning or significance. But we've had three lunar
eclipses in the last two years, and bright comets come around at least
once per decade. So these phenomena are hardly unusual or special enough
to portend something even more rare, uch as an opposing team losing to
the Boston Red Sox in the World Series.
Yes, if the Red Sox win the World Series, that event would make the
eclipse special, and not the other way around
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