The Billy Goat Curse Lives On

According to my research, the Billy Goat curse was placed on the Cubs in 1945 when Billy Goat Tavern owner Billy Sianis was asked to leave a World Series game at Wrigley Field because his pet goat's odor was bothering other fans. He was outraged and placed a curse on the team, saying there would never again be a World Series game played at Wrigley Field. His exact words: "Them Cubs, they aren't gonna win no more." So poor Cubs fans will never win until this famous curse is lifted. Perhaps they should do the New York City thing and just build a new stadium next to Wrigley field. Then they should charge a lot of money so the average fan can not attend any games (if they do their tab will be over $100 for a few beers and two bad seats). That's Yankee Stadium this past year—so just imagine next year. The Yankees were so concerned with a curse being placed on the New Yankee Stadium that after a Red Sox construction worker told the New York Post that he placed a David Ortiz shirt under the Yankees' dugout, the team had the shirt exhumed and the worker was fired. More security was called for to prevent future mishaps. Let us hope that the economy somehow survives and people actually buy tickets. The Yankees top brass can forget about the Lehman Bros. luxury box, along with many others. Maybe it will be very surreal as a team with a quarter-billion-dollar payroll plays while the world is in a economic depression. But let's be hopeful and equate the Yankees selling out next year to a stable global economy; after all, everything's connected—just like A-Rod's guaranteed salary and Wall Street golden parachutes....

Tags:   a rod, billy goat curse, cubs, david ortiz, lehman bros, wrigley field, yankee stadium, yankees

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Posted on 10/7/2008 ( Permanent Link )
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