a candlelight vigil for the gone-but-not-forgotten CurlBaby.
By Ariel Mutha-Tafoya
FSN Sports
BAKERVILLE—As word spread early yesterday evening of the death of Curlbaby, the infant child of Bakers owner QCurl Sharif, crowds gathered near the team’s Ave. Q headquarters last night in a spontaneous outpouring of sympathy for the beleaguered — and now, apparently, accursed — franchise.
Mourners from across the city stretched for two blocks in either direction from the Cherry Bomb Café, maintaining a candlelight vigil that continued into the early hours of Wednesday morning. Among the crowd, reporters spotted a tearful Jim McMahon — who once had helped create a 20-foot-wide crater on 12th Avenue as a prank using a homemade explosive. “There are no words for this,” sobbed McMahon, who said he hoped to be able to see his old friend Sharif later in the evening. “We are all Bakers tonight.”
Bakers’ PR maven Faith Popcorn announced Curlbaby’s death yesterday, via a statement explaining that the child had been eaten by Shiva as the Destroyer of Worlds attempted to restore energy after an apparently unsuccessful battle to end the curse imposed on the Bakers by Dave the Animal and his computer/consort Nancy. “Curlbaby was our hope for the future and now he has borne this dreadful curse for all of us,” said Nashville developer Jack May, a longtime Bakers season-ticket holder. “Please, please, please, make it stop.”
Early Wednesday, a local TV crew spotted league founder Dr. Jorgé Linardo approaching the service entrance of the Cherry Bomb, carrying what appeared to be a green bean casserole. Linardo, who ordinarily eschews media attention, stopped for a moment and told the crew, “I know what it’s like to lose a son” — a reference to the death of Manuel “Short Eyes” Linardo in one of Nashville’s most high-profile unsolved murders — “and then I lost Biggs, who was like the son I wished I never had.” Then he added with misty eyes, lapsing into his native Spanish, “Estoy aqui por Qlito in este momento de dolor.”
Mourners from across the city stretched for two blocks in either direction from the Cherry Bomb Café, maintaining a candlelight vigil that continued into the early hours of Wednesday morning. Among the crowd, reporters spotted a tearful Jim McMahon — who once had helped create a 20-foot-wide crater on 12th Avenue as a prank using a homemade explosive. “There are no words for this,” sobbed McMahon, who said he hoped to be able to see his old friend Sharif later in the evening. “We are all Bakers tonight.”
Bakers’ PR maven Faith Popcorn announced Curlbaby’s death yesterday, via a statement explaining that the child had been eaten by Shiva as the Destroyer of Worlds attempted to restore energy after an apparently unsuccessful battle to end the curse imposed on the Bakers by Dave the Animal and his computer/consort Nancy. “Curlbaby was our hope for the future and now he has borne this dreadful curse for all of us,” said Nashville developer Jack May, a longtime Bakers season-ticket holder. “Please, please, please, make it stop.”
Early Wednesday, a local TV crew spotted league founder Dr. Jorgé Linardo approaching the service entrance of the Cherry Bomb, carrying what appeared to be a green bean casserole. Linardo, who ordinarily eschews media attention, stopped for a moment and told the crew, “I know what it’s like to lose a son” — a reference to the death of Manuel “Short Eyes” Linardo in one of Nashville’s most high-profile unsolved murders — “and then I lost Biggs, who was like the son I wished I never had.” Then he added with misty eyes, lapsing into his native Spanish, “Estoy aqui por Qlito in este momento de dolor.”
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