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Boston is ESPN’s choice for fifth-most tortured city on the list, and you know what? It’s all because two of their teams are owned by two other teams: The Canadiens have ended the Bruins’ playoff run over 20 times (really! look it up!), and the Yankees have won 26 World Series since Boston took their last trophy in 1918.

The Sports Guy weighs in with his thoughts on the list, not ranking Boston at all (Pats, Celtics, and decent Sox/Bruins teams) and bumping Minneapolis up to third (all four teams have had major heartbreak).

Here are the rest of Bill Simmons’ picks (Detroit and LA are conspicuously absent, which should make the raised-in-Buffalo/college-in Boston/lives-in-LA Stu both happy and sad):

1: Buffalo (only two teams, but two big heartbreakers: 4 Superbowls and “skate-in-the-crease”)
2: Cleveland (does any city’s name bring losing to mind as much as Cleveland?)
3: Minneapolis (one team moved, one was almost contracted, one lost 4 Superbowls, and the last just took 15 years to win a playoff series)
4: Philly (20 years since a championship, plus Eagles heartbreak the last three years)
5: Seattle (losing 3 HoFers, winning 116 games and not making round 2 of the playoffs)
6: Cincy (they’re so bad, they even lose to Cleveland for “losingest city in Ohio”)
7: D.C. (‘Skins, losing two baseball teams, the MJ/Bullets Wizards fiasco and the Crapitals
8: K.C. (Cleveland of the southern Midwest)
9: Houston (no Champs, save for the Rockets, and they get an asterisk because MJ was retired. They also just lost fattest city in America status)
10: Pittsburgh (champs in all 3 sports in the past 30 years–I don’t agree with this one)

I’m so sick of stupid-ass blog memes like “turn to page 23 of the nearest book” or “fill in all the states you’ve been to, and post the map on your blog.” Such things just smack of the whole livejournal “this is my life, which is ever-so-important” mentality.

So I’m starting my own memes. Every week, I’ll have a new one. And they’ll be just as mindless and stupid as anything you’ve seen on the Internet. Feel free to post your meme answers in my comments. And hey, link to it yourself, but make sure I get credit.

So without further ado, here is stupid-ass made-up meme #1:

1) Stand in front of your DVD or VHS collection.
2) Find the movie that’s closest in the alphabet to your first name.
3) Fast forward to 8:39 into the movie.
4) Post the next line of (intelligible) dialogue into your blog.

Here’s mine, from “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.”
“Dr. Jones. Again we see there is nothing you possess which I cannot take away.”

The line actually occurs about a minute after 8:39, but Dr. Jones was in the middle of an extended action sequence at the time.

There you go, kids. Something to post when there’s nothing else to write about.

It really was a wedding we bombed.

Woman accused of drowning boyfriend’s dog.

Tonight, Dubya’s going to announce five “concrete” steps for the handover of Iraq on June 30. Sadly, Bush actually saying anything concrete about the situation in Iraq is major, major news.

Doug Pappas from Baseball Prospectus died Thursday while hiking. His insight and commentary on the best sport in the world will be missed dearly.

Ilovejennabush has a (much hotter) picture of Jessica Cutler/Washingtonienne. Also check out his Wonkette/Cutler/Ron Jeremy pic (though only Jeremy was photoshopped in).

And the Timberwolves won game 2, 89-71, holding the Lakers to a tie for their lowest point total in a playoff game, ever!

About Washingtonienne is here, though you may have to register first.

It’s pretty disappointing; nothing you haven’t read already either here or in Wonkette. The article doesn’t even take up the whole “The Reliable Source” column. And the photo isn’t there, either.

But there is one good line I hadn’t heard from her before. Says author Richard Leiby:

“She seemed blase about having six regular partners, telling us: ‘You know, there’s seven days a week.’”

Yesterday’s search results for “Jessica Cutler”? Under 100, with only one related to Washingtonienne.

Today’s results? 29,700…so far.

Not his approval ratings–well, not just his approval ratings–but his real-life body. He tumbled off his bike while pedaling around his ranch, adding “bicycle” to “car,” “Segway,” and “international respect of the US” on the list of things he’s crashed.

At the ranch, huh? Sounds like he’s on vacation again. What are the odds? Oh yeah, 2 out of 5.