Can someone please explain the curse of the Chicago Cubs to me??

Question

I know it has to do with a goat....is it true they have NEVER won a world series?

Answer 1

A man named Billy Sianis brought his goat to game 4 of the 1945 world series. They were initially allowed in. The goat wore a blanket with a sign pinned to it which read "We got Detroit's goat". Eventually the Cubs owner had them removed because of the animal's odor. Sianis supposedly placed a curse on the Cubs because they had insulted his goat.

Answer 2

The Cubs believe it or not won 2 World Series but non since 1908.

The thing with the curse is some immigrant wanted to bring his pet goat to see the game, but they wouldn't let the goat stay. Even though he had two tickets. so before he left Wrigley Field he put a curse on the Cubs that they will no longer win a Championship. Thats why the Cubs are known as the loveable loosers, because even though they haven't won anything, we all still go there to cheer.
But the curse is real...look what happened with the Bartman game. Four more outs and they would of been there in 2003.

Answer 3

They have won the World Series (1907, 1908), but they haven't won one since "The

Curse".http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Cubs#.22Tinker_to_Evers_to_Chance.22

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Curse of the Billy Goat
The Curse of the Billy Goat is an urban legend used as an excuse for the various regular-season and postseason woes of the Chicago Cubs, a Major League Baseball team. It is a mystical explaination for the Cubs not winning the World Series since 1908 and not even reaching the final series since 1945.


The Curse of 'Billy The Goat' Sianis
As the story goes, Billy Sianis, a Greek immigrant (from Paleopyrgos, Greece[1]), who owned a nearby tavern (the now-famous Billy Goat Tavern), had two $7.20 box seat tickets to Game 4 of the 1945 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, and decided to bring along his pet goat, Murphy (or Sinovia according to some references), which Sianis had restored to health when the goat had fallen off a truck and subsequently limped into his tavern. The goat wore a blanket with a sign pinned to it which read "We got Detroit's goat".[2] Sianis and the goat were allowed into Wrigley Field and even paraded about on the playing field before the game before ushers intervened and led them off the field. After a heated argument, both Sianis and the goat were permitted to stay in the stadium occupying the box seat for which he had tickets. At this point, Andy Frain (head of Wrigley Field's hired security company at the time), waved the goat's box-seat ticket in the air and proclaimed "If he eats the ticket that would solve everything."[3]. However, the goat did not. Before the game was over, Sianis and the goat were ejected from the stadium at the command of Cubs owner Philip Knight Wrigley due to the animal's objectionable odor. Sianis was outraged at the ejection and allegedly placed a curse upon the Cubs that they would never win another pennant or play in a World Series at Wrigley Field again because the Cubs organization had insulted his goat, and subsequently left the U.S. to vacation in his home in Greece.

The Cubs lost Game 4 and eventually the 1945 World Series, prompting Sianis to write to Wrigley from Greece, saying, "Who stinks now?" Following a third-place finish in the National League in 1946, the Cubs would finish in the league's second division for the next 20 consecutive years. This streak finally ended in 1967, the year after Leo Durocher became the club's manager. Since that time, the supposedly cursed Cubs have not won a National League pennant or played in a World Series – the longest pennant drought in Major League history. Sianis died in 1970.


Attempts to Break the Curse
Billy Sianis's nephew Sam 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). [1]

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".[2]. Houston faded down the stretch allowing the Cubs to win the division. The Astros did win the NL pennant in 2005.

Before the 2004 season the Steve Bartman ball was ceremonially destroyed at Harry Caray's Restaurant in Chicago.


The Cure
According to an interview with Sam Sianis, William Sianis' nephew, the Curse of the Billy Goat can only be dispelled by the Chicago Cubs organization showing a true sincere fondness for goats, sincerely allowing them into Wrigley Field because they like them, and not simply for publicity reasons.[4]

Answer 4

they haven't won a world series since 1908 or something because someone brought a goat into the stadium or something so there is a "curse" there is no curse though they just suck big time. Go White Sox!!!!!

Answer 5

They have won a World Series (2 actually), but not since 1908.

There's no curse; they just suck.

Answer 6

Nope, they won 2, in 1907 and 1908

Answer 7

1 in like the 1900's

Answer 8

not a curse just seem to be classic losers.

Answer 9

clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap CUBS SUCK!