A confession to the Pack.

[drt7891]

Fellas, in the back of the building where I work, There is a *******. I cannot tell you which exact ******* it is, but it's in a standard 2 seat configuration. It's quaint, quiet, and relaxing. Gentlemen, this ******* carried us on our run last year. It was on this ******* that it's magic carried us past a pesky UCA team, an overrated Virginia team, and kept Conforto's would-be homerun in the ballpark. It lifted us back on top of Indiana in late innings, and propelled us to a meeting with UCLA. It was upon this *******, I discovered it's power. I did not use this ******* the opening day of the championship series, and it cost us our first ever national title.

Gentlemen, yesterday, I spoke of it's existence, a fatal mistake on my part. I should not have, for the baseball juju is a temperate and powerful Mistress. I accept full responsibility for yesterday, as well as our falling short last year in Omaha. My lack of respect of the juju gave lindgren's breaking ball too much bite, which proved to be the tying and winning runs, and it made our bats just a little too heavy against UCLA.

Gentlemen, I must come clean with you today. I apologize for my actions, and solemnly swear to fully and completely respect the baseball juju and her power from this day forward.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

You weren't alone. I ventured into our Premium Chat room yesterday after avoiding it all season, despite the chastisement of D@A. Evidently, the baseball Gods were not impressed.

I humbly beseech your mercy.

 

[AFDawg]

I haven't worn my lucky hat in weeks. I apologize.

 

[starkvegasdawg]

For these horrible transgressions here is your punishment:

DRT: You must immediately go to Taco Bell and order 4 burritos and a nacho bell grande. Then go home and chase that down with some prune juice and cabbage. That will make you once again respect the *******.

IBLEED: For going into a taboo section of the internet you are restricted to www.nickjr.com for the next two weeks. You must also purge out your history and favorites to make starting over again that much more difficult.

AFDAWG: Your sentence is to immediately shave your head and then wear a sailor's hat with a pink ribbon on it for the next two weeks.

Just remember, this hurts me more than it hurts you.

 

[AFDawg]

Well done.

 

[llmsudawg]

POTY candidate.

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

I listened to all the games last year but went with espn3 this year. I fear I played a hand in this as well.

 

[Lettucexxxx]

A little bit is on me as well. For the 9th inning, we went Blue Font for Oxford.............We should have gone OLD GOLD to appease the Indians. For this crucial mistake, I will free ball and jog 2 miles...........in the rain. The Baseball Gods and the Indians work in cahoots.....so ive heard.

 

[1msucub]

Please. Y'all are mere juju blips. This one's on me.
I actually thought we were going to win.
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[IBleedMaroonDawg]

For these horrible transgressions here is your punishment:

IBLEED: For going into a taboo section of the internet you are restricted to www.nickjr.com for the next two weeks. You must also purge out your history and favorites to make starting over again that much more difficult.

But I might lose my link and password to the SixPack Premium Chat!

 

[aspendawg]

Please forgive me for my transgressions:

I didn't wear my lucky hat.
I didn't sit on the drift wood coffee table
I didn't have my rally baton.

All three were a part of last years journey.

 

[MeridianDog]

This is not all on you DRT. I went through all of the hassle of wiring up my laptop to the TV and settled down to watch the first game then walked away at an inopportune time and came back from the storage room with a Dr. Pepper and Little Debby Oatmeal cookie in hand a few minutes later to find they had scored a bozillion runs while I was away.

In anger with the demons, I sulked away to bed that night and then with a deep sadness in my heart refused to watch the next night's effort. May sadness was the knowledge that I had let them down so badly the first night there was probably no MOjO left in me.

If I'd had any chicken bones in the house and the hair of some cur dog maybe I could have crafted a JuJU, but we had boneless chicken tenders from the Shell oil station that night and I had no leg bones to tie a hank of dog hair around.

This can't be placed solely on you.

You know? Maybe somewhere on a lake an elderly Polkster was smiling those two nights as he rubbed a greasy rib bone against an old wooden bat.

Maybe none of us did anything wrong.

 

[BingleCocktail]

This thread is reminds me of "Murder on the Orient Express"

 

[PBRME]

I was in chat for every post season game last year. I didn't make the first one this post season. Point some blame my way.

 

[cowbell88]

So y'all caused my State cap (that we have never lost while I was wearing this cap; which includes football and baseball) to have a loss on its perfect record.

 

[GratefulDawg.sixpack]

I came back from two week's honeymoon in Spain right before the UCLA series. I thought it was me.

 

[121Josey]

I listened to the first two regional games on the net. Then on account of internet problems, I could not listen to the ULL series.

Mea culpa.