Maybe…if the subway is BART. Go Giants!
This is Chi-towns year for baseball, don’t contaminate our thread with your love of the giants 
Anyways, Sox need to keep it going, Cubs are doing well too, or so I hear on SportsCenter. Hopefully something happens, we’ve waited long enough dammit!
Some guys were telling me last year at Wrigley Field that there is some sort of a curse on the ballpark and that a goat is involved (NO!! not that way) I was a bit, no I was a lot drunk at the time so I didn’t quite catch all of it.
Returned to England the day after so never got the full tale so what is the curse and what is it supposed to do.
The owner of the Billy Goat Tavern, Billy Sianis, tried to bring his “pet” goat into Wrigley during the 1945(?) World Series. He was turned away and told that he couldn’t bring the goat in because it stinks. In retaliation, he supposedly cursed the Cubs, and they lost the World Series that year and haven’t even been back since. In other words, they “stink” too, I guess. Supposedly there have been a couple attempts by him and his nephew who now owns the tavern to lift the curse, but considering they still haven’t won the World Series, some people think the curse is still in place.
The Billy Goat Tavern is better known outside of Chicago to Saturday Night Live viewers for a skit featuring John Belushi’s portrayal of Sianis - “cheezborger, cheezborger,” “no fries, chips,” and “no Pepsi, Coke.”
Pizzle in da Chizzle!
They aren’t rude enough at Billy Goat anymore…they used to really give you hell. Now they just sort act annoyed…never thought I would miss being yelled…NO SOUP FOR YOU!
Didn’t Mike Royko hang out at the Billy Goat? Or am I thinking of something else?
Yes, he wrote about it in his column.
BTW, not a chi doper here (although I was born in LaGrange), will in in chi end of sept. Any dopers going to graph expo at mccormick then?
Thanks, seal_cleaner. I thought I remembered it from some old columns.