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Thursday, October 02, 2008

Greek Orthodox priest exorcizes Cubs dugout

The Cubs brought a heavy hitter to Wrigley Field on Wednesday afternoon, asking the Rev. James L. Greanias, a Greek Orthodox priest from St. Iakovos Church in Valparaiso, Ind., to spread holy water around the dugout to remove an alleged curse that has hovered over the ballclub since its last World Series appearance in 1945.

Unfortunately, they used a Gregorian calendar priest, so the curse won’t be lifted for another 13 days.

Cabbage Posted: October 02, 2008 at 12:04 PM | 48 comment(s)
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1. Walks Clog Up the Bases Posted: October 02, 2008 at 11:10 AM (#2964555)

Oh the things this organization forces us fans to defend.

2. phredbird

Posted: October 02, 2008 at 11:12 AM (#2964560)

Unfortunately, they used a Gregorian calendar priest

good one.

3. Rafael Bellylard has become a Mets fan! Posted: October 02, 2008 at 11:13 AM (#2964565)

Isn't this an annual event now?

4. A Surfeit of Peaches Graham (SdeB) Posted: October 02, 2008 at 11:18 AM (#2964573)

Now all they need is Father Guido Sarducci.

5. Crispix Attacks is in the best shape of his life. Posted: October 02, 2008 at 11:23 AM (#2964579)

Valparaiso, Indiana?

It's encouraging that in the last few thousand years the tradition of blaming all your problems on a goat and then killing or banishing it has been replaced by the more humane ritual of blaming all your problems on a nonexistent goat and then banishing it.

6. Styles P. Deadball Posted: October 02, 2008 at 11:31 AM (#2964589)

If I had a dime for all the times they've walked that f#*^in' goat around the warning track... I'd have significantly more dimes than than I currently do.

Goats and tortured, bespectacled fans don't have anything to do with it. Being one of the last MLB teams to embrace the farm system and then poorly stocking it for another few decades is a better reason to be pissed.

7. SoSH U at work Posted: October 02, 2008 at 11:33 AM (#2964593)

Valparaiso, Indiana?

Why the curiousity about Valpo there Crispix?

8. Sexy Lizard Posted: October 02, 2008 at 11:43 AM (#2964606)

So if the Cubs win the World Series that proves once and for all that the filioque clause was just a scribal screwup, right?

9. CW uses it as a stick to beat someone with Posted: October 02, 2008 at 11:48 AM (#2964610)

I need an old priest and a young priest!

10. SouthSideRyan Posted: October 02, 2008 at 11:51 AM (#2964616)

Enough with this stupid ####.

11. Cabbage Posted: October 02, 2008 at 11:54 AM (#2964622)

So if the Cubs win the World Series that proves once and for all that the filioque clause was just a scribal screwup, right?

It also makes Alex S. Gonzalez into Charlemagne.

12. Jimmy P Posted: October 02, 2008 at 12:06 PM (#2964638)

Valparaiso, Indiana?

Hey, that's where I grew up! My parents still live there.

13. SoSH U at work Posted: October 02, 2008 at 12:10 PM (#2964642)

Hey, that's where I grew up! My parents still live there.

I'm a resident of Portage Jimmy.

14. BaseballDIY Posted: October 02, 2008 at 12:28 PM (#2964668)

Tell me if I'm reading this right: If the Cubs lose, God doesn't exist. Yes?

15. salvomania Posted: October 02, 2008 at 12:31 PM (#2964675)

No---God just doesn't give a #### about the Cubs.

16. baseball chick (now, with NEW blog) Posted: October 02, 2008 at 12:33 PM (#2964678)

lessee if i understand

someone thinks that alex gonzalez booting a dead easy GIDP ball might could possibly have more to do with a cubs loss than some poor SOB grabbing a foul ball IN THE FRICKING STANDS that the fielder couldn't have got to anyhow???

mercy me

i suppose next you'll try to say something like if bill hall had turned that dead easy GIDP or if rickey weeks had caught an easy toss that my 5 year old coulda caught that the brewers just might could have got out of that inning without giving up all those UER

instead of saying well it is the curse of the seligula or something

17. Best Dressed Chicken in Town Posted: October 02, 2008 at 12:33 PM (#2964679)

Sorry, refusing to let a goat into a park does not bring about a curse. Who lets goats into parks? They can't come up with any better excuse than that? Throwing a Series can cause a curse. Trading the best player ever for cash can cause a curse. This goat ######## is pathetic.

However...if every player will #### a goat on the pitcher's mound right before Game 2, I do think the curse will be lifted.

18. baseball chick (now, with NEW blog) Posted: October 02, 2008 at 12:43 PM (#2964695)

Best Dressed Chicken in Town Posted: October 02, 2008 at 01:33 PM (#2964679)

However...if every player will #### a goat on the pitcher's mound right before Game 2, I do think the curse will be lifted.

- what you don't think that the goat would object?????

but the mental picture of carlos zambrano or jim edmonds trying to eff a goat is priceless

19. SoSH U at work Posted: October 02, 2008 at 12:46 PM (#2964705)

Sorry, refusing to let a goat into a park does not bring about a curse. Who lets goats into parks? They can't come up with any better excuse than that? Throwing a Series can cause a curse. Trading the best player ever for cash can cause a curse. This goat ######## is pathetic.

I'd say any proposed curse is equally pathetic. The only difference between the Goat and the Black Sox/Ruth sale is the latter two were at least baseball related.

20. jwb Posted: October 02, 2008 at 12:58 PM (#2964718)

I once had an apartment mate who was very artistically talented. One hung over morning he drew a Dr. Seuss inspired "Wouldya Couldya with a Goat" that was just brilliant.

21. Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: October 02, 2008 at 01:06 PM (#2964726)

lessee if i understand

Eh, it's all in fun.

but the mental picture of carlos zambrano or jim edmonds trying to eff a goat is priceless

Heh, I see Zambrano screaming and pointing to the sky after he finishes.

22. baseball chick (now, with NEW blog) Posted: October 02, 2008 at 01:48 PM (#2964769)

Slinger Francisco Barrios (Dr. Memory) Posted: October 02, 2008 at 02:06 PM (#2964726)

but the mental picture of carlos zambrano or jim edmonds trying to eff a goat is priceless

Heh, I see Zambrano screaming and pointing to the sky after he finishes.

- while he pointing, the goat she turn around and butts him for not finishing his pitches real too good

- then again, i think regular old pr0n is absolutely HILARIOUS. especially the "dialog"

23. Walt Davis Posted: October 02, 2008 at 02:04 PM (#2964787)

Valparaiso, Indiana?

My reaction too. Nothing against Valpo but I'd think Chicago has one of the larger Greek Orthodox communities in the US. Maybe we've used up all the local ones in previous exorcisms. Or maybe Greek Orthodox priests are mostly fans of the Greek God of Walks.

It's time we tried a Coptic priest or something.

24. 1k5v3L, Useless

Posted: October 02, 2008 at 02:08 PM (#2964797)

Greek orthodox? Why? Honestly, why? A catholic wouldn't have sufficed?

25. SoSH U at work Posted: October 02, 2008 at 02:08 PM (#2964799)

My reaction too. Nothing against Valpo but I'd think Chicago has one of the larger Greek Orthodox communities in the US. Maybe we've used up all the local ones in previous exorcisms. Or maybe Greek Orthodox priests are mostly fans of the Greek God of Walks.

Maybe he did some previous exorcism work for the Samardzijas.

26. Jimmy P Posted: October 02, 2008 at 02:25 PM (#2964838)

Maybe he did some previous exorcism work for the Samardzijas.

Maybe he was recommended by Mickey Morandini

27. Hello Rusty Kuntz, Goodbye Rusty Cars Posted: October 02, 2008 at 03:09 PM (#2964906)

Greek Orthodox are the most cursed priests of all.

28. Cabbage Posted: October 02, 2008 at 04:28 PM (#2965067)

Greek orthodox? Why? Honestly, why? A catholic wouldn't have sufficed?

What, you don't like Diversity?

29. An Athletic in Soxland Posted: October 02, 2008 at 05:08 PM (#2965120)

Greek orthodox? Why? Honestly, why? A catholic wouldn't have sufficed?"

Billy Sianis, the man with the insulted goat, was Greek.

30. Harmon "Thread Killer" Microbrew Posted: October 02, 2008 at 05:22 PM (#2965165)

Billy Sianis, the man with the insulted goat, was Greek.

Sure, Sianis was Greek, but the goat wasn't.

31. Biff uses the power of mental thinking Posted: October 02, 2008 at 05:30 PM (#2965192)

Throwing a Series can cause a curse. Trading the best player ever for cash can cause a curse.

No they can't, since "curses" don't exist.

32. VoodooR Posted: October 02, 2008 at 05:34 PM (#2965205)

No they can't, since "curses" don't exist.

Well, of course not. But those make for much better stories than the "goat curse". Frankly, a "Merkle curse" would be much more interesting as a BS reason why the Cubs haven't won in 100 years...

33. 1k5v3L, Useless

Posted: October 02, 2008 at 05:47 PM (#2965247)

29: Thanks. I think the goat curse is still one of the funniest stories ever.

34. Best Dressed Chicken in Town Posted: October 02, 2008 at 05:50 PM (#2965260)

"curses" don't exist

Then why do half my ####### posts get edited out?

35. Walt Davis Posted: October 02, 2008 at 08:36 PM (#2965577)

Greek orthodox? Why? Honestly, why? A catholic wouldn't have sufficed?

Apostates!!

The Cubs have been getting it wrong for 100 years; Roman Catholics have been getting it wrong for nearly 1000!

:-)

36. Kiko Sakata

Posted: October 02, 2008 at 08:43 PM (#2965583)

Valparaiso, Indiana?

I went to college there.

37. BourbonSamurai Posted: October 02, 2008 at 10:32 PM (#2965838)

I think at this point, the Cubs need to just own this curse. Issue a statement saying, "Seriously, #### Goats. The Chicago Cubs organization has a long history of hating goats, and will continue to be the one major league franchise in the vanguard against the coming plague of ballparks overrun by vicious goats."

See if that does anything.

38. 1k5v3L, Useless

Posted: October 03, 2008 at 01:09 AM (#2965958)

The Cubs have been getting it wrong for 100 years; Roman Catholics have been getting it wrong for nearly 1000!

The Cubs seem really determined to catch up with the Catholics though...

As I expected, Billingsley had no problem with the strike zone and pitched well against the righthanded batter heavy lineup

39. Sexy Lizard Posted: October 03, 2008 at 06:48 AM (#2965981)

I think at this point, the Cubs need to just own this curse. Issue a statement saying, "Seriously, #### Goats. The Chicago Cubs organization has a long history of hating goats, and will continue to be the one major league franchise in the vanguard against the coming plague of ballparks overrun by vicious goats."

They need to fire Lou and hire a chupacabra as manager.

40. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: October 03, 2008 at 07:03 AM (#2965985)

Enough with this stupid ####.

...since "curses" don't exist.

Scoff if you like, scoffing scoffers. But the Red Sox didn't win a title until they dredged Babe Ruth's piano from the watery depths and made it their DH.

41. Lassus Posted: October 03, 2008 at 07:18 AM (#2965988)

Well, that didn't work.

42. Shooty Did Not Kill McGurk

Posted: October 03, 2008 at 08:00 AM (#2966005)

Well, I'm convinced. Time to become a Unitarian!

(what is exactly is a Unitarian. My only experience with church was one fall in a Lutheran sunday school when I was 7. I am woefully ignorant about various Protestant sects. I did got to a Huguenot service in Charleston once, though, and actually enjoyed it despite my non-religiosity.)

43. Lassus Posted: October 03, 2008 at 08:05 AM (#2966011)

what is exactly is a Unitarian.

I'll take this one:

Boring on a level that not even a vengeful god could be enticed to punish.

44. Shooty Did Not Kill McGurk

Posted: October 03, 2008 at 08:09 AM (#2966012)

Boring on a level that not even a vengeful god could be enticed to punish.

Are their Sunday services televised on CBS then?

45. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: October 03, 2008 at 08:36 AM (#2966031)

A Unitarian is a person who worships this god.

46. Shooty Did Not Kill McGurk

Posted: October 03, 2008 at 08:40 AM (#2966035)

A Unitarian is a person who worships this god.

Huh. The Unitarian god had a better year than I thought.

47. Jimmy P Posted: October 03, 2008 at 11:54 AM (#2966319)

Ok, from last night it's pretty clear that Greek Orthodox was the wrong religion. Have they ever tried Mormon?

48. Crispix Attacks is in the best shape of his life. Posted: October 03, 2008 at 11:57 AM (#2966323)

I don't think Mormons do exorcisms. They could have all former and current Cubs baptized, as well as the goat, though.

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