Most successful team in baseball over the first ~40 years of the sport's existence (up to 1918). Subsequently sold their star player (Babe Ruth) to the Yankees so that their owner could finance a Broadway musical, and then performed poorly for the next twenty-odd years while the Yankees began to surpass them in terms of on-field success.

Experienced something of a resurgence in the 1940s, but could never win a world championship. Were pretty dire/unpopular throughout the 1950s and 1960s, but then came out of nowhere in 1967 to reach the World Series, losing in 7 games to the St. Louis Cardinals. Suddenly became wildly popular in Boston and throughout New England. Still couldn't win a world championship, but came close in 1975, and then agonizingly, skull-crushingly close in 1986.

Failure to win world championship in 1986 spawned the creation of a moronic fiction known as "The Curse of the Bambino", which attributed the Red Sox' decades-old habit of stumbling at the final hurdle to a hex put on them from the Afterlife by Babe Ruth, presumably because he was angry that the team sold him way back when. (In reality, their inability to win the big one could be ascribed to a combination of piss-poor management and being on the wrong end of random chance at the worst possible times.)

Anyway, the media seized on "The Curse", beating Red Sox fans to death with it throughout the late '80s and beyond. National TV broadcasts of Red Sox games were filled with forced, gratuitou...

Verb - the act of slapping some unfortunate soul around the face with one's balls, hopefully resulting in an incomparable shriek of horror from the victim.

Report the loss.

Often said after an online competitive gaming match, where the winning team asks the losing team to "Report the loss" on the league's website, such as CAL or TWL.

Also used outside of e-sports, such as during or after an argument.

The word one uses when he/she is excited about an event that just occurred. Its origins can be traced back to the University of Miami where a student was excited, but did not want to be like everyone else, so instead of saying the routine, "Yahtzie!" He decided to change it to "Yatters!"

Variations include the following: "Yattersville, population me," "Yattersville, population me and only me," "Welcome to the YF (Yatters Foundation)," and last but certainly not least, "Give me a blowie, Yatters dipset gooch 9er dip."

Noun - Fusion of "cognitive" and "confrontation." Occurs when a person imagines having a confrontation with another person; often involves the cogfronter winning an imaginary argument with the cogfrontee.

1. Any person who is winning an argument with a liberal

2. Catch all term used by liberals when they think they've been using Nazi too much.

3. A common element found in conspiracy theories.

1. Any person who is winning an argument with a liberal

2. Catch all term used by liberals when they think they've been using Nazi too much.

3. A common element found in conspiracy theories.