The Onion Hits Close To Home
The Onion released an article yesterday with the headline of 95-Year-Old Yankees Fan Afraid He’ll never Get To See Team Win 27 More World Series. The Onion is, of course, satire. Satire, however, becomes scary when it hits close to the truth or reality.
While I’m probably the only one who made the connection, but that article made me realize that I’m 23 years old and haven’t seen ONE Cleveland sports championship (unless you count the Cleveland Crunch… I’m becoming open to the idea). Cleveland has a 45 year drought, the longest of any city with three major sports teams (so stop your whining, Cubs fans), so that’s 22 years before I was born since their last championship. At the rate of no championships per 45 years, it is very possible, if not downright likely that I won’t see a Cleveland championship by the time I hit 95.
It’s sad that my hopes to see a Cleveland championship revolve around the hope that future medicine can keep me going well into my 100′s…
Thanks, Onion. Thanks for thoroughly depressing me!