Käfer und Eichhörnchen plagen die Yankees - das wäre ja schon lustig genug, ABER: Die Eichhörnchen Geschichte hat noch eine Endzeit-Konnotation aus der nordischen Mythologie:
"Roberta Frank, [...] professor of Old Norse and Old English at Yale, carefully and regretfully noted that the squirrel foretold the demise of the Yankees in 2007, even though they were in the process of sweeping three games from the Red Sox .
The squirrel, she said at the time, resembled Ratatosk, a creature in Norse mythology that precipitated the destruction of the world [...] by the evil dragon (or the Red Sox). As it turned out, Frank was correct. The Red Sox held on to win the American League East for the first time in a dozen years, [...]. Frank said yesterday that her August entry into baseball had, well, changed her life. “After 30 or 40 years of careful scholarship, that squirrel and my name are connected forever,” she said.
[...] she did provide some hope for next season. The 13th-century Ratatosk tale states that after the destruction of the world, good rises again. "
The squirrel, she said at the time, resembled Ratatosk, a creature in Norse mythology that precipitated the destruction of the world [...] by the evil dragon (or the Red Sox). As it turned out, Frank was correct. The Red Sox held on to win the American League East for the first time in a dozen years, [...]. Frank said yesterday that her August entry into baseball had, well, changed her life. “After 30 or 40 years of careful scholarship, that squirrel and my name are connected forever,” she said.
[...] she did provide some hope for next season. The 13th-century Ratatosk tale states that after the destruction of the world, good rises again. "
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