I read today that while most of the world has helicopters where the rotors go counter-clockwise, zee French ones, zhay go, how do you say? clockwise. Why is this?

Well, maybe the Russian ones go clockwise,too.

And then, China and India and Poland do the clockwise thing as well.

So maybe I was a little loose with facts when I said “most of the world”. Hmm . . . Sikorsky was born in Russia of Polish descent and studied aviation in France. The plot, it thickens. So, if Sikorsky of helicopter fame was from Russia and studied in France, isn’t it odd that French and Russian helicopters rotate the reverse of American? Did Sikorsky start out rotating counter-clockwise and someone changed his mind? Did he originally go clockwise and the French and Russians got miffed at his coming to America and just said, “Eh, Eh, Eh, we spit on you and will turn the other way.” Probably not.

You can read about the attempted cursing by Red Sox jersey

BUT . . . But what if the curser put two shirts in the cement? I mean, that’s how they do it in the movies. You know, the good guys find the “bomb” or whatever, only it is the one meant to be found, to serve as a distraction for the other one. In this case, it wouldn’t matter if Shirt Number One were found or Shirt Number Two were found – the one not located would become the de facto curse.

And then, of course, there is Shirt Number Three . . .

What if the Yanks haven’t foiled the curse? What if the found shirt was the foil for the unfound one?

Just a thought . . .

And here’s another thing to ponder: Whose shirt is in Wrigley Field and where the heck is it buried?