From wikipedia
The
Curse of the Billy Goat is an
urban legend concerning various regular-season and postseason woes of the
Chicago Cubs, a
Major League Baseball team whose last World Series appearance was in
1945.
Attempts to break the curse
Sam Sianis, nephew of Billy Sianis, has been brought out on the field with a goat multiple times in attempts to break the curse: on Opening Day in 1984 and 1989 (the Cubs won the division both years), in 1994 to stop a home losing streak, and in 1998 for the wild card play-in game (which the Cubs won).
A group of Cubs fans headed to Houston in 2003 with a Billy Goat named "Virgil Homer" and attempted to gain entrance to
Minute Maid Park. After they were denied entrance, they unfurled a scroll and read a verse proclaiming they were "reversing the curse". Houston faded down the stretch allowing the Cubs to win the division that year. The Cubs, however, came within 5 outs of the World Series in 2003, until fan
Steve Bartman interfered with a foul ball catch by
Moises Alou, and followed by a missed ground ball by shortstop
Alex Gonzalez, which prevented an inning-ending double play. The Marlins went on to score 8 runs in the inning, to lead 8-3. The Cubs lost that game and the next game to the
Florida Marlins, who went on to win the
World Series against the New York
Yankees. Bartman continues to avoid commenting on the incident to the press, and has expressed deep regret about the incident.
Before the 2004 season the Steve Bartman ball was ceremonially destroyed at
Harry Caray's Restaurant in Chicago.
In another bizarre twist, it was reported that a butchered goat was hanged from the
Harry Caray statue on October 3, 2007, but the Sun-Times noted: "If the prankster intended to reverse the supposed billy goat curse with the stunt, it doesn't appear to have worked." However, the Cubs did win the NL central title in 2007.
The cure
According to three interviews with Sam Sianis, William Sianis' nephew-in-law, the Curse of The Billy Goat can be dispelled only by the Chicago Cubs organization's showing a sincere fondness for goats; allowing them into Wrigley Field because they genuinely want to, not simply for publicity reasons. Maybe the real cure, however, involves the Detroit Tigers, as the Cubs lost to them in the 1945 World Series, would've played them in the 1984 World Series had they beaten San Diego one more time, and, most importantly, beat them both times they won the World Series, in 1907 and 1908, respectively.
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Saw another one in the "wild"! I was at Riley Hospital yesterday (10/1) and saw a Blue/Silver passion in the parking garage 
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