I’ve come “home” to baseball. Still the greatest game, ever.
Sometimes I think how cool it would be if baseball, only had a game a week like football. Every baseball game would be like a playoff game. Because nothing beats playoff baseball.
Been boycotting mlb since the strike in ‘94................not that I hold a grudge or anything. :) Kinda hooked on the UFC now, most times theres more sportsmanship in one fight than I see in a whole football game and there is no season to wait for.
Playoff Hockey is the only “team” sport that I watch. Regular season hockey is too watered down, but the playoffs are lots of fun.
Sorry to hear about the Rangers.
Go Cubbies!...............
The Curse of the Billy Goat is a sports-related curse that was supposedly placed on the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise in 1945 when Billy Goat Tavern owner Billy Sianis was asked to leave game 4 of the World Series against the Detroit Tigers at the Cubs’ home ballpark of Wrigley Field because the odor of his pet goat (named Murphy) was bothering other fans.[1][2] He was outraged and allegedly declared “Them Cubs, they ain’t gonna win no more,” which has been interpreted to mean that there would never be another World Series game won at Wrigley Field. The Cubs have not won a World Series championship since 1908 or played in the World Series since 1945.
Origins of the curse
The exact nature of the curse differs in various accounts of the incident. Some state that Sianis declared that no World Series games would ever again be played at Wrigley Field, while others believe that his ban was on the Cubs appearing in the World Series, making no mention of a specific venue. Sianis’ family claims that he dispatched a telegram to team owner Philip K. Wrigley which read, “You are going to lose this World Series and you are never going to win another World Series again. You are never going to win a World Series again because you insulted my goat.”
Whatever the truth, the Cubs were up two games to one in the 1945 Series, but ended up losing Game 4, as well as the best-of-seven series, four games to three. The curse was immortalized in newspaper columns over the years, particularly by syndicated columnist Mike Royko. The curse gained widespread attention during the 2003 postseason, when Fox television commentators played it up during the Cubs-Marlins matchup in the National League Championship Series (NLCS).[6] According to an account in the Chicago Sun of October 7, 1945, the goat was turned away at the gate, and Sianis left the goat tied to a stake in a parking lot and went into the game alone. There was mention of a lawsuit that day, but no mention of a curse.
Sianis’ goat was named “Murphy.” In the 2015 National League Championship Series, this was referenced by fans of the New York Mets, who joked that Daniel was “not the first GOAT (Greatest of All Time, in reference to Murphy’s postseason heroics to that point) named Murphy to keep the Cubs out of the World Series.”
It’s a good point about 16 games vs. 162 regular season games. Playoff MLB is way different for sure. But one of the nice things about having so many games in MLB is that the players can actually self police each other better than they can in the NFL. In the NFL each game means so much and with the modern penalty and replay the cool players can’t stop the jerkwad players. They actually had to come up with lame rules/penalties to stop the worst of the swishy celebration dancing and chest slapping displays instead of players handling that crap.
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