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Tuesday, October 26, 2004 |
Revising The Ex-Cub Factor
In Ron Berler's original Boston Herald article, the Ex-Cub Factor -- one of my favorite hobgoblins of the game -- says "it is utterly impossible for a team with three or more ex-Cubs to win the [S]eries." Well and good; so we see that Christian's 2004 postseason update shows the Cards with three ex-Cubs (Ray King, Julian Tavarez, and Tony Womack) versus the Bosox' two (Mark Bellhorn and Bill Mueller). (At least, I assume it's Christian. The article is uncredited.) However -- the original Rule is rather vague, and does not note whether the manager counts toward the Ex-Cub Factor, something the Chicago Tribune draws our attention towards. Well, let's see: both LaRussa and Francona were Cubs, which would change their respective teams' numbers to four and three respectively. It might not change the spook factor here -- St. Louis still has more of a curse, by one man, than Boston -- but the fact that the original formulation set the quota at three is, shall we say, interesting.
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