In a truly remarkable day in sports, we have the opening of the 2010 baseball season, the under dog Butler Bulldogs trying to become the lowest seed to win the NCAA men's basketball title since Kansas in 1988 (#6 seed), and the return to the golf course of serial fornicator tiger Woods. However, my attention is on something that occurred yesterday, which is more significant to me, since I am their fan.
For the first time in 17 years (1993), the Chicago Blackhawks clinched their division title (which is no longer the Norris Division, as named when they last won). These slightly more significant events also happened in 1993...
- the bombing of the World Trade Center
- David Koresh and the siege of the Branch Davidians in Waco, TX
- Rodney King being pummeled in the streets of LA
Now it may seem like yesterday that "Unforgiven", Jurassic Park", "Schindler's List" and "Indecent Proposal" came out in theaters (and that Marisa Tomei actually won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "My Cousin Vinny"), but it really has been almost two decades.
However, this is only the beginning, as we can only hope that there is not a repeat of 1993, when the Hawks were swept out of the first round of the playoffs, only weeks before the airing of the last episode of "Cheers". It is believed by some that this unfortunate turn of events may have caused the deaths of Dizzy Gillespie, Andre the Giant, George "Spanky" McFarland and Frank Zappa.
Celebrate the achievement now, but the team needs to focus on the big picture of winning the Stanley Cup. Otherwise some terrible things might happen again, like the Marisa Tomei Phenomenon, and nobody wants to see that.
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