Dead Goat Found Hanging From Harry Caray Statue Outside Wrigley Field

The Chicago Cubs will be having their home opener at Wrigley Field on Monday afternoon, or at least they're hoping to. You see, the weather in Chicago right now includes a lot of rain in the area all day, so there's a pretty good chance that the game may be rained out. If this does happen, you can be sure that there will be some Cubs fans making the joke, or being serious, that this is the latest omen of the curse against the team.

Of course, Opening Day rainouts can only happen to the Cubs because they're cursed. (It's not like Opening Day for the White Sox was snowed out or anything.) This sounds incredibly stupid, I know, but there are Cubs fans who would actually believe it to be true. They believe in Billy Goat curses and Steve Bartman, and now these same fans (morons?) also apparently believe that hanging dead goats from Harry Caray statues will bring a World Series to Chicago.

A dead goat was found hanging on a statute of Harry Caray outside Wrigley Field early Monday on the North Side, and it's not the first time.

A similar incident occurred in 2007, police said.

A 911 call at about 2:40 a.m. Monday led police to the goat hanging from a rope on the arm of a statue of Harry Caray at the intersection of Clark and Addison streets, according to Town Hall District police.

Police took the goat down and disposed of the remains. It was not known how the goat died and nothing at the scene was damaged, police said.

I can not confirm nor deny that FanHouse's own Matt Snyder is a suspect, but I do know that he's deathly afraid of farm animals after an unfortunate incident as a small boy, so my gut tells me he's innocent.

As the excerpt above mentioned, this isn't the first time some idiot Cubs fan tried something like this. It happened back in 2007 before the Cubs took on the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLDS and they ended up getting swept in that series, so obviously it worked.

Heck, now that I think about it, they got swept out of the NLDS last season as well. The Cubs are 0-6 in the postseason since the original goat was hung.

It's a new curse!

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

4-13-2009 @ 12:55PM

Bob said...

Hey dumb azz. Before you call a Cub fan a moron, look in a mirror. Anyone that don't understand the way Cub fans go about things or deal with not winning a world serise in over 100 years, don't deserve to write crap about it. What ? Red sox fans didn't have thier little thing about the Bambino, or the White sox didn't have thier thing about the Black sox ? It's part of the game and part of the history of baseball, Deal with it. When the Cubs do win it all I'm sure your have some smart azz things to say about that. Heres an idea, take your pantties off and become a man. Comment on womans basketball because seems to me you'd be less terible at that. Morons ? Go stand in front of Wrigley and tell men that to thier face. We will be burying another goat.

4-13-2009 @ 1:44PM

Matt Snyder said...

Please don't blanket generalize how Cubs fans do things, Bob. I'm a Cubs fan, and there is no such thing as a curse. This billy goat stuff is ridiculous, and I refuse to be a party to it. It gives us rational fans a bad name.

4-13-2009 @ 1:14PM

Odie said...

I'm guessing Bob believes in the curse, so it must be nice when your point is so easily proven.
If and when the Cubs do break said curse, I hope Bob is there to explain to everyone how killing that goat made it all happen.

4-13-2009 @ 1:59PM

dave said...

poor cubs. their biggest curse is their retarded fanbase. too many bobs, not enough matt snyders.

4-13-2009 @ 2:38PM

Blanket ? When you call Cub fans morons for just believing in something that helps them just cope with a 100 years of crap, it just shows that your not a die hard. Fair weathered fans should not be able to write columns about baseball teams. I don't believe in all that stuff either, but I do understand where people that do come off. I have been a die hard for 46 years and proud of it. Again, with the team we have on paper, we are in the top three in all of baseball. Write about that Cub fan. Let the real die hards believe as they wish. They are not bothering you. Maybe when you get 40 years under your belt you will see and feel as they do. Just sticking up for DIE HARD Cub nation. The rest of you can go back to watching your White Sox game.

4-13-2009 @ 3:00PM

I think you should read my Cubs stuff before passing judgment on me being a fair weather fan. You can start with this:

http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2008/10/06/from-the-windup-being-a-cubs-fan-chapter-100/

4-13-2009 @ 3:11PM

I read that garbage and the only thing that stuck out on it was you calling real Cub fans morons. I just poped on to see that great catch by Reed last night and your so called column was there. The only reason I read it was because it was about the Cubs. Get a clue, hit and run like Mariotti won't get you on espn with him. I said what I had to say as you have. I disagree with your kiddie column but just as the curse believers, your intittled to your opinion.

4-13-2009 @ 3:18PM

I didn't write this entry. Tom Fornelli did. The last thing I wrote about the Cubs was how encouraging Rich Harden's outing was on Friday.

Wow, you are really a pleasant person, aren't you?

4-13-2009 @ 5:03PM

George said...

The fans are morons for blaming Bartman for their ineptiveness. The dude did what any other fan would have done,reach out for a frigging baseball. The Cub's excuses will never run out,I hope they are the laughing stock of sports for another 100 years. They give a man a statue that was the biggest drunk in the midwest for 50 years,ha.