A second blog post! In the same day! Insanity! No, it’s not insanity, it’s my new formula, guaranteed to up my readership at least .00003 fold.
Watching the Mets-Cubs game got me thinking about those poor Cubs. They’re not so poor at the moment, because they’re clobbering the Mets 7-1. But for the last 100 years or so, they’ve been sad. The Cubs have had plenty of good teams, like last year for example. But, that damn curse. That damn Goat.
Those of you unfamiliar with the infamous goat might want to take a look at a recent news article I wrote about sports curses. The article seemed apt after the Yankees dug up the David Ortiz jersey because they feared a good haunting in the same vein as Mr. Bambino’s spook of the rival Boston Red Sox. But they overcame their curse…the Cubs, well, they’re still one of the unfortunate souls.
Here’s the deal. This guy owned a tavern by Wrigley Field, and one day he came across this goat. It was a smelly, yet adorable goat, I’m sure, and he chose to keep it, and name his tavern after said billy goat, The Billy Goat Tavern. It was a billy goat, not just a goat. Are all goats billies? Nevermind.
So the Cubs made it to the World Series in the 1940s, and William “Billy Goat” Sianis thought it would bring the Cubs great luck if he took the goat with him into the Stadium to watch and eat its goat hay. He gets to the Stadium, and they’re like, “Sir…sir…excuse me, sir, you can’t bring your goat in here. We have a strict no-goat policy” And he’s like, “Why I never!” He asked to speak with the head honcho, Mr. Wrigley. But Mr. Wrigley, while chewing his gum, was like, “Okay, you’re always welcome in these here whereabouts sir…but your goat, well, your goats stinks.”
So that poor goat couldn’t come into the stadium. But Mr. Sianis would never have his billy goat spoken to in such a manner. “The Cubs ain’t gonna win no more. The Cubs will never win a World Series so long as the goat is not allowed in Wrigley Field,” he said.
Hilarious. The Cubs clearly have the most hilarious sports curse ever. I’d feel bad if the Cubs won, because then the billy goat curse would be no more, and that wouldn’t be any fun at all. Who does that? Who thinks they can bring a billy goat to a baseball game? Was this common in the 40s?
Whatever the case, you can’t dislike the Cubs, even if they’re your team’s arch rival. Yeah they beat the Mets big time tonight, but still, the billy goat! It has a beard!
