Talk:Curse of the Billy Goat

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The Billy Sianis article isn't strictly biographical and covers a lot of the same ground, I think it should be merged. BoojiBoy 21:54, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

• Gofer it. Wahkeenah 23:12, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone want to discuss the possibility that the Chicago Cubs curse stems from the Merkle incident as much as it does from the Billy Goat curse of 1945? That the Cubs used trickery to steal the 1908 pennant away from the Giants, embarassing young Merkle in the process, and this is why they haven't won a World Series since that year? The curse of the Billy Goat, yes, but what about the Curse of Merkle? User:151.163.2.8 (Talk) 18:39, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

• The reason they don't win has nothing to do with curses, unless you consider bad management to be a curse. Wahkeenah 23:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

The part in this article about the 2003 NLCS seems misleading. The Cubs actually had a three games to one lead in the series at one point. They were ahead three games to two in game 6, but the wording in that part of the article seems to say they were only one game ahead of the Marlins in the series at any time. It makes the evidence of a curse clearer since they were one game away from the World Series with 3 chances to clitch, but didn't win any of the games. I'm going to try and clarify this. 147.155.2.164 04:15, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

• evidence of a curse? That's silly. The so-called "curse" is nothing more than continual incompetence. Shall we create a page about the monster under our beds and begin searching for evidence of that, too?
  • Go ahead. Wahkeenah 00:38, 17 January 2007 (UTC)