This reference is way upthread, but I just couldn't let it go by.
"In the words of the Brooklyn Dodgers fan, "Say it ain't so, Joe."

Nope! That was said by a young boy to "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, a well-loved player (who played in his bare feet) with the Chicago White Socks in 1919, when it was discovered that Chicago had thrown the World Series. The players did so because they were desperately underpaid, while the owners made a fortune off them. 9 players, including Shoeless Joe, were kicked off the team and never reinstated.

Shoeless Joe was also the inspiration for W. P. Kinsella's novel "Shoeless Joe," the book on which the movie "Field of Dreams" was based.

Sorry -- old baseball fan here, just had to set the record straight. Hope you don't mind.