Sports
Cubs Lose, Cosmos Safe
By Jennifer Gardner
Oct 16, 2003, 08:00

So what if they haven't won a World Series in 96 years. At least they aren't hated like those Yankees.

In historic fashion, the curse of the Billy Goat again reared its ugly head on those Lovable Losers, the Chicago Cubs. Game seven of the League Championship Series ended with the Florida Marlins beating the Cubbies by the score of 9-6, as the fish swam away with the pennant. The Marlins tagged Cub Ace Kerry Wood for seven runs on seven hits, ensuring the continuation of planetary rotation and balance within the cosmos.

“On the one hand, I’m severely disappointed,” said Bud Cromsky, a die hard Cub fan, “But at least there’ll be no Armageddon. That is, unless the Red Sox win the Series. But come on,” Bud says with a laugh, “That’d be almost as unlikely as the Cubs winning.”

Continued life on earth has, of all things, a Billy Goat to thank. During the Cubs’ last trip to the Series in 1945, Chicago tavern-keeper, Sam Sianis and his pet goat Murphy were denied entrance into Wrigley Field. Sianis said, "Never again will World Series be played in Wrigley Field,” or so the tale is told. The moral of this story is: don’t piss off a man with a goat.

Of course curses cannot live on Billy Goats alone.

Cheer up Cubbies fans, at least the sky won't fall.

In 1969, a black cat walked across Wrigley Field and the Cubs lost to the New York Mets. The superstition that followed was predictable, but rarely is the question asked: how did a cat get into Wrigley when a Billy Goat doesn’t stand a chance?

And in the eighth inning of game 6 of this year’s LCS between the Marlins and the Cubs, one of the Cubs’ very own helped further along their losing streak. On a pop foul near the left field line, Chicago outfielder Moises Alou seemed poised to pocket the second out of the inning. But a Cubbie fan deflected the ball away from Alou’s glove, and the inevitable chaos ensued. An error, a walk, eight runs, and several cups of beer spilt on the infamous fan later, the Cubs rolled over faster than John F. on Marilyn Monroe.

Earth inhabitants, however, are not entirely out of the woods, because the Boston Red Sox are determined to end their own ‘Curse of the Bambino,’ respectively by forcing a game seven against the New York Yankees. The good news for the BoSox is that Bill Buckner isn’t playing first base. The bad news? If the Cubs couldn’t even beat the goat, does anyone really think the Sox can beat the Babe?


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