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Originally posted by spots101
How much longer you gonna hold onto that "cursed" crap. It was never suppose to be your year in '03. If it was the Cubs would've won it. This goat thing is just an excuse to be like the BoSox were before they won. At least their's was a lot more believeable and real than a goat. Are the BoSox still cursed because they didn't win this year? How about the Yankees? Are they cursed by egos and the almighty dollar? Ya know, they haven't won since they acquired all those egos. I was so happy when they didn't win last year because it proved that they couldn't buy a championship after getting A-Rod. Steiney will probably go out and spend more money next year and what will it get him....as far as the Cubs went in the "year that was their's".
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You have it backwards. The Red Sox want to be like the Cubs.
1. A curse on the Red Sox was not widely accepted as fact/myth until after the 1986 World Series.
2. The idea that the Sox curse has something to do with Babe Ruth was not fabricated untill 1986 when George Vecsey wrote an article for the NY Times connecting the numerous Red Sox mistakes in the WS, and their previous non WS win seasons to Babe Ruth.
3. The phrase "Curse of the Bambino" was not coined untill 1990 when Dan Shaughnessy wrote a book with that title about the history of the Red Sox.
4. William "Billy Goat" Sianis had bought tickets for him and his pet goat Murphy for game 4 of the 1945 WS.
5. William "Billy Goat" Sianis and his goat Murphy were kicked out of Wrigley Field during game 4 of the 1945 WS becuase the goat was very foul-smelling.
6. William "Billy Goat" Sianis, sent a telegram to William Wrigley, Jr., owner of the Cubs saying (according to Sianis' nephew) "You are going to lose this (1945) World Series and you are never going to go to the World Series again. You are never going to win a World Series again because you insulted my goat."
So which "curse" is more believeable, one invented by the media, or one where a man hexed a team?