Bambino and billy goat curse

             There are two professional baseball franchises that are known to be cursed. People that live in these cities believe they are true and not just tales, because of the misery for generations of fans pointing to one agonizing, disappointing loss after another, and that history is not on there side.
             One of the cursed teams is the Chicago Cubs, playing out of beautiful, haunted Wrigley Field. As the story goes, William "Billy Goat" Sianis, a Greek immigrant who owned a nearby tavern, had two $7.00 box seat tickets to Game 4 of the 1945 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers. Sianis and the goat were allowed into Wrigley Field and even paraded about on the playing field before the game before ushers intervened. They were then led 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. However, 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, Sianis chose to then slaughter the animal, in order to curse them so they would never win another pennant or play in a World Series at Wrigley Field again. The Cubs lost game four and eventually the 1945 World Series. Since that time, the cursed Cubs have not won a National League pennant or played in a World Series at Wrigley Field it's the longest league championship drought in Major League Baseball history.
             The curse seemed to be fading in the 2003 playoffs. In the National League Division Series, the Chicago Cubs beat the Atlanta Braves three games to two. The curse then seemed to be on the point of extinction when the Cubs led the eventual World Series champion Florida Marlins three games to two in the National League Championship Series at Wrigley Field, and held a 3-0 lead in Game 6, with only five outs between them...

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