Do u believe in curses or are they just excuses because the teams has sucked over that period of time?

Question

ie: Curse of the Bambino, Billy Goat curses.

Answer 1

Are you talking about the REDSOCKS!!!!
Cause there is no such curse, though they say there is. The teams just have sucked.

Answer 2

Curses are what you make of them. The "Curse of the Bambino" was a myth, a humorous story invented by a Boston sportswriter. If anyone could be said to have had such a curse, it would be the Cubs, who were victimized by Ruth's pitching in 1918 and his bat in 1932. Over the years there have been some very good Red Sox and Cubs teams. No one was talking curse in 1967 when Sox fans hailed their team's presence in the World Series as a miracle, or in 1969 when it was widely acknowledged that the Cubs choked (and were outplayed by the Mets, too, as sportswriter Roger Angell pointed out).

Can't speak to the goat curse, but maybe if the Cubs sponsored a "Bring Your Goat to Wrigley Field Day"...seriously, some teams have sponsored days where one can bring one's dog.

On the other hand, I placed a curse on the Texas Rangers back in 1973 because I was angered by a terrible person who also happened to be a Texas Rangers fan. Since then they have taken their division once and got a wild card berth but were quickly knocked out of the playoffs both times. This curse will last while the individual in question lives.

Buoyed by this success, I have now cursed the Los Angeles Dodgers to remain permanently below the Mendoza Line with their pitching to become as bad as the infamous "Losing Pitcher" Mulcahy. It will take time for this to become effective.

I won't curse the Steinbrenners because when George Steinbrenner is gone I hope to resume being a Yankee fan. On the other hand, dooming the Oakland Raiders to eternal failure is quite desirable...

Answer 3

A lot of the time what we talk about as "curses" are not truly that (the curse of the bambino perhaps wasn't really a curse). However, I know that there are times when thoughts, mental energy, attitudes, etc can influence outcomes of events, as well as influence the mood and actions of others.

It is possible to "curse" someone, when they have done something which is both wrong and which they KNOW TO BE wrong. In other words they have knowlingly chosen to defy or break some innate law which they know, deep down, exists. Though in reality it is not so much that you place a curse (make the action or 'cause' the curse) as that you recognize and 'announce' to others the karmic misfortune that IS going to happen - i.e. that WILL come back upon the guilty person.

I have actually done this. It is a little like 'channeling' I believe.. You receive a 'vivid' energy/realization that what the wrong-doer has done is GOING to bring upon them certain karmic retribution, and you speak out in words what the universe is soon about to do about it.

Answer 4

There are no such things as curses. During the playoffs last year, I could have strangled Chris Berman when he continuously talked about the "Curse of Shoeless Joe Jackson." I've been a White Sox fan my whole life, and I had never heard of such a thing until last October.

We didn't go 88 years between World Series titles because of a curse. We just had a lot of bad teams through the years. Last season, we had a great team, and we won. That proves there was no curse.

There isn't any curse on the Cubs either. They just need an excuse for their bad ownership, moronic management and lousy play.

Answer 5

i'm a Cubs fan, as vast of a Cubs fan as there is. we aren't cursed. We basically have not been sturdy sufficient to get it carried out. 5 outs faraway from the sequence in 2003, and Alou freaks out on Bartman. If he might have controlled his emotions i've got self belief it could have been a distinctive result using fact we've been arms down the favourite team in baseball the final 2 months of the season, and earlier became arms down the suitable pitcher in baseball. No team is Cursed, curses are in elementary terms excuses. i will say the Cubs have been surprisingly unlucky with Mark earlier. difficult to have self belief he's basically 29 stunning now. He became excellent at basically 22. basically too undesirable.

Answer 6

Absolutely believe in them and I will tell you why. True story. Oklahoma. 1973. A local high school football team had a mascot that looked like a Native American. One night a very old Native guy showed up at a game and asked the coach to stop using the mascot. The coach who was the #1 high school coach in the state made told the old man to get lost. The old Indian cursed the coach right then and there. He told him he would never win another game. And he didn't. Not a single game. The coach finally hung himself in a motel room. I know because I was on the field as a cheerleader and I was there the night the old Indian came to the game. I saw the whole thing. So do I believe? You bet I do!

Answer 7

I believe in self-fulfilling prophecies. If the players buy into a curse, then they're never going to win because they don't believe they can.

As the great Yogi Berra once said, "Ninety percent of this game is half mental."

Answer 8

I believe in the pressure of not winning that that only are made more difficult by the curse talk.

Answer 9

They are a lot of fun to talk and joke about but in reality no I don't believe in curses at all.

Answer 10

well i kinda do and i kinda dont. i do bcuz wen some one died, they could have cursed a team. but i dont bcuz some teams really didnt have that great of teams in order to win. i.e. the redsox they won because they had an all-star team the year they won the championship. with manny, david, pedro, derek lowe, varitek etc how could they lose?