The Cure for the Curse

In reference to the previous post, I guess I didn't mention that some say the only way to break to curse of the billy goat is to have the goat come to Wrigley Field because of a real fondness for goats, not media coverage, while the cubs play the Detroit Tigers. I'm assuming this would have to happen in the post-season, or both teams would have to meat up in the World Series or something of the sort. Maybe next year!

The Curse of the Billy Goat and the 100 Year Drought

The Curse of the Billy Goat is a curse on the Chicago Cubs that was started in 1945. As the story goes, Billy Sianis, a Greek immigrant (from Paleopyrgos, Greece), who owned a nearby tavern (the now-famous Billy Goat Tavern), had two $7.20 box seat tickets to Game 4 of the 1945 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Detriot Tigers, and decided to bring along his pet goat, Murphy (or Sinovia according to some references), which Sianis had restored to health when the goat had fallen off a truck and subsequently limped into his tavern. The goat wore a blanket with a sign pinned to it which read "We got Detroit's goat". Sianis and the goat were allowed into Wrigley Field and even paraded about on the playing field before the game before ushers intervened and led them off the field. After a heated argument, both Sianis and the goat were permitted to stay in the stadium occupying the box seat for which he had tickets. At this point, Andy Frain (head of Wrigley Field's hired security company at the time), waved the goat's box-seat ticket in the air and proclaimed, "If he eats the ticket that would solve everything."Philip Knight Wrigley due to the objectionable odor of wet goat. Sianis was outraged at the ejection and allegedly placed a curse upon the Cubs that they would never win another pennant or play in a World Series at Wrigley Field again because the Cubs organization had insulted his goat, and subsequently left the U.S. to vacation in his home in Greece. However, the goat did not. Before the game was over, it started to rain and Sianis and the goat were ejected from the stadium at the command of Cubs owner

The Cubs lost Game 4 and eventually the 1945 World Series, prompting Sianis to write to Wrigley from Greece, saying, "Who stinks now?" Referenced from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Billy_Goat

For more info on the curse and how it might be broken visit the link above.

If you are a fan of the Cubs like Garrett, you may be aware that the Cubs have not been to the World Series since that fateful day in 1945, and have not won the World Series since 1908. For all those faithful Cubbies fans, this is the year, the 100 year drought shall soon be over.