The Curse of the Great Bambino. The of Billy the Goat. The Curse of Captain Eddie... most baseball fans recognize these to be the prominent curses or jinxes that keep teams from winning and add an element of fate to every game.
The curse that most people don't talk about but several teams acknowledge is the Metrodome Magic. Metrodome Magic refers to the fact that most teams find it hard to play in the dome. Some blame the noise of the fans, some blame the wall, many blame the fact that the Twins seem to always be on top of their A-game at home.
A prime example of the Metrodome Magic comes with the Chicago White Sox who had lost 10 of their last 11 games at the Metrodome, despite the fact that they had been playing better than the Twins. Then on Saturday the Metrodome Magic must have been on the fritz because the Sox pulled out a 8-7 win against the Twins in the 9th inning. The game was a great one and the entire crowd there sat on the edge of their dome seats waiting to see how it would all go down.
White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said after the game on Saturday, ''I wish somebody else would give [the Twins] credit [besides] me because it sounds like I'm pulling for them. But those guys show up every day, and you have to beat them. You have to play all nine innings and get 27 outs. They make you work. ... They're not streaky. They don't give up. They get good at-bats no matter what the score is. That's why they're always in the pennant race.''
So perhaps we shouldn't give up on the Metrodome Magic just yet, and maybe we should give the actual team so credit for their performance. In which case I would like to propose chalking Saturday up to a fluke and moving forward. (but just in case there was dome magic and it is gone, i suggest bringing good ju-ju into the dome this week).
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