A Chicago eatery recently placed the winning bid on the infamous deflected foul ball that recently extended the Cubs even-more-infamous curse;and it actually plans to destroy it in an "act of exorcism..." Sorry,Cubbies;but the Giants will win a World Series before your curse ends... An open plea to Montréal Canadiens owner George Gillett:Have you considered making an offer for Les Expos in order to keep them in Montréal? On to non-sports matters,it seems that of all of the duplicate sites that Hitoshi Doi has, this one seems to have emerged as the most reliable for various reasons... Finally(as I hinted of doing earlier),I've started out yet another community:stampcollectors.