I Blame CB Bucknor.

Early this morning, I was on Twitter and saw libbycrews blaming the Red Sox for oversleeping... So, being the irrational Red Sox fan that I am proud to be, I told her to blame infamous umpire CB Bucknor instead.

When I returned to the site later this evening, fangsbites and Gabs10272004 had replied, blaming Bucknor for such things as overindulgance at the bar, the botched 2000 election, communism, global warming, and gout. This got me thinking: what else can we blame Bucknor for?

Bucknor was:

the spark that caused the Hindenburg combustion.

the iceburg that sunk the Titanic.

the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs.

the drought that triggered the Dust Bowl.

the money that paid off the Black Sox.

the crash that kicked off the Great Depression.

the volcanic eruption that buried Pompei.

the rats that carried the bubonic plague.

Your suggestions are welcome!

After this was first posted, the CB Bucknor Twitter account had this to say:

cbbucknor @toesinthesand82 @LoveSox15 -- i'll admit it, I thought that iceberg was high and away, so I didn't bother to turn the titanic. my bad.

Suck it, CB Bucknor!

Alright, I get that the Red Sox lost last night's game because they couldn't string enough hits together to score any runs. However, the umpiring staff sure wasn't helping: Bobby Abreu should have been the third out of the fifth inning, watching strike three but getting a called ball four... If the inning had ended there as it should have, who knows? Maybe Torrii Hunter would have homered in his next at-bat anyway, but probably not. And then there are the two botched plays at first... Sir, Kevin Youkilis does not make errors.

But Red Sox Nation is creative.. Somebody out there began to tamper with Bucknor's Wikipedia page, producing these:
Someone else (or maybe the same person?), then created a Twitter account for the umpire:

cbbucknor: #redsox I'm at 1B, blowin' the game.

cbbucknor: Hoping for another play at 1B. Might try and turn my back and close my eyes this time.

cbbucknor: How'd I get that one right? No idea, my eyes were closed.

cbbucknor: wondering if the rules prevent me from calling a runner out after a base on balls.

cbbucknor: is taking the over on the number of blown calls against #redsox.

Red Sox Nation, I applaud your creativity. For those who want to sign a petition to fire CB Bucknor, click here.

If Tito thinks you suck, you suck.

[Thanks to @fangsbites, @gx5, and @Gabs10272004 for the screenshots!]