It's a good thing the Cubs did win, or that man would have wished for the five minutes of his life he spent to make that sign back.
Before there were steroids in baseball, there were always curses. Sports fans have always been a superstitious bunch, especially baseball fans. Who else would think that if they all collectively turned their baseball caps inside out it would be good luck? Babe Ruth left the Boston Red Sox and fortune followed his new team, the Yankees. Instead of Red Sox fans saying, “Gees, we traded away perhaps the best player in baseball history, and that’s why we didn’t win after he left,” they start saying, “WE’RE CURSED! IT’S THE CURSE OF BABE RUTH!” The Chicago Cubs are also being followed by a curse, a curse of not winning the World Series in nearly a century (there is apparently a connection with a goat, which is too ludicrous to mention). That’s all Cubs fans talk about, their team is cursed, and perhaps this is the year it is broken. They have come so close so many times, but that darn curse has gotten the best of them. With such a loose definition of “curse,” it’s safe to say that just about half of the teams in Major League Baseball are cursed because they have not won a World Series. Manny Ramirez is cursed with being a jerk, Roger Clemens is cursed with not being able to tell the truth, and Cleveland Indians are cursed because of the “Major League” movies (don’t know what they are cursed with, but definitely cursed)
The Chicago Cubs brought themselves one step closer to the World Series this past weekend when they won the N.L. Central Division and clinched a spot in the Playoffs. Any team clinching their division, league, or winning the World Series has turned into a champagne bath for everyone, even the fans. As if it wasn’t a silly tradition to begin with, this year the players seemed to have been handed a pair of swimming goggles with their bottle of champagne to protect their eyes. It was quite the scene on Wrigley Field, the fans had hope in their eyes, the players were excited, I think I even saw a couple of players having a tickle fight on the pitcher’s mound. Amongst all the happy jives, I think they all forgot that they will have to go through the almost automatic American League Champion Los Angeles (of Anaheim) Angels. That team has got supernatural powers on their side, they have actual angels on their team helping them, I know because I saw the movie “Angels in the Outfield.”
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