Top Ten Curse Reversers

It all started in May, when Brigham's ice cream released a "Reverse the Curse" flavor, the local baking company Dancing Deer offered "Break the Curse" cookies, and a burrito joint near Fenway Park even sold "Reverse the Curse" burritos. "I Believe" t-shirts with the "B" designed to look like the Boston logo, and "Keep the Faith" signs started popping up across the city, signifying an appeal to a higher power that this might be the year for the Red Sox to win the World Series.

The goal? Reverse the famed "Curse of the Bambino," by which Babe Ruth, after being traded to the New York Yankees in 1920, is said to have decreed that the Red Sox would never win another World Series. Well, they haven't, and the frustrating history of bitter losses and almost-wins for the Red Sox has brought out reactions from the superstitious to the straight-out spiritual from fans.

Here are the top ten ways that Red Sox fans have tried to approach the spirit of the sport this year.

1. Send Your E-Prayers to Smokey Joe Wood
A self-proclaimed coalition of those with "belief in Moses, God, Mass, Karma, the ghost of Smokey Joe Wood and any other of the forces of good luck and goodwill that might assist in bringing a World Series title to New England" launched a web-based e-prayer petition to harness any and all good thoughts for this worthy cause.

2. Double, double toil and...Sam Adams?
Los Angeles-based "Spiritual Psychopharmacologist" Kirpal concocted a curse-reverser that included placing live clams in a black cauldron, then drawing a bath with Dragon's Blood Foaming Bath and Samuel Adams beer, a Boston favorite, in it. Uttering, "I invoke this in the names of Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, Bobby Doerr, Cy Young, Wade Boggs and Carlton Fisk. And so it is. And so it shall be," she declared the curse reversed.

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