[UA] The Bartman Baseball

[Rich Ranallo]

The Bartman Baseball is an artifact that was created about a month and a
half ago. The Chicago Cubs were closer to making it into the World Series
than they had been in almost a hundred years; in fact, there's enough
material written about the supposed curses placed on the team to fill ten UA
campaigns. In the second-to-last game before the Cubs would have gotten into
the series, a fan leaned out to catch a ball that was headed for the
audience, and instead plucked it out of Moises Alou's mitt...without getting
too far into baseball rules minutiae, let's just say that the game has no
prohibition against fans interfering in play, so the play stood, doing
severe damage, but not causing the Cubs to lose that game. A large number of
Cubs fans blame their loss on Bartman, the guy who grabbed the ball. Bartman
lost his job, and had to live undercover for weeks after the game for fear
of reprisal from angry fans. On the other hand, Florida fans sent him all
kinds of money and gifts.  The ball itself ended up in someone else's hands,
a lawyer who was sitting behind Bartman at the time, because it fell right
into his lap after Bartman's grasp slipped.

So, yeah...it's an object that's infused with all the pathos a sports team
can build up over a hundred years, and the situation itself--having one's
devotion to a team cause that team's ultimate defeat--is precisely the kind
of paradox that magick thrives on.

>From Whom It May Concern,
Rich Ranallo

"I don't have any problem with any of the ghosts. Remember, I'm perfect."
- Billy Mitchell, world Pac-Man champion
----- Original Message -----
From: "Katie & Saul" <pulse at electricearth.net>
To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List" <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] The Bartman Baseball


> It's very US-centric, but I guess that's the price you pay for having
> Americans write such cool games ;)  Even without the baseball though, UA
is
> very much based in American culture. It requires some significant shifts
in
> ideas to run it set in most other countries, I reckon. *goes off to write
a
> UA scenario based around Bradman's cap* (probably only Aussies and maybe
> UK-folk will get that).
>
> Saul
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jecouto at tiscali.es>
> To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List" <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:56 AM
> Subject: RE: [UA] The Bartman Baseball
>
>
> > Nice and interesting idea, but...
> >
> > ... is not the first time anybody says to you guys that UA is a bit too
> > US-centric? :-)
> >
> > (I got it by a) being born in a baseball playing country and b) having
> access
> > to CNN, ESPN, FOX and all that.)
> >
> > Jesús Couto F (now trying to see similars instances in soccer to adapt
> said
> > idea to Spain... I dont want to explain baseball to my players :-P)
> >
> >
> > PRUEBA TISCALI ADSL HASTA 6 MESES
> > SIN CUOTAS FIJAS, SIN COMPROMISO
> >
> > PONNOS A PRUEBA
> >
> > http://acceso.tiscali.es/pag-acceso-adsl-Prueba.jsp?did=adp-7530007
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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