HRD Followup: The Dead Goat on the Harry Caray Statue
Posted by: Richie Rich in Bartman, Critters, Cubs, Harry Caray, MLB Weirdness, Sick and Wrong
Last Thursday (Oct 4), Home Run Derby pulled a scoop with a grainy video and pic of a skinned goat carcass hanging from the Harry Caray statue outside Wrigley Field that someone had hung in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. The perpetrators were obviously looking to Reverse the Curse of the Billy Goat which has supposedly haunted and doomed the Cubs since 1945.
The traditional media picked up the story over the weekend. The Chicago Sun-Times reported it sometime on Saturday and then Sports Illustrated and MSNBC followed later that night. And the news wires had all picked it up for the Sunday morning papers, conveniently after the Cubs had been swept out of the playoffs.
Only the Sun-Times ran a photo of the goat in their online edition, and that was just a grainy video grab like HRD had done.
The Chicago Tribune (stiil the owners of the Cubs) only had a teeny tiny blurb about it in an AP wire report. I wonder why they didn’t trumpet this news?
Well, Home Run Derby has since acquired a high-res pic (sent to us by a reader) of the goat dangling from Harry Caray’s arm. I haven’t seen it anywhere else.
It’s from a different angle and shows a cardboard proclamation behind the goat. The Goat’s name is apparently Leon “Bill” Bartman …
If you can’t read the Cardboard, here’s what I could make out …
Hear Ye Hear Ye Hear Ye
As of October 3, 2007: Let it be known to the spirit of Sam Sianis and all powers that be …
I, Leon “Bill” Bartman, have sacrificed my goat life and thereby have reversed the curse and have blessed the Cubs with “The Holy Cow” and in the name of Harry, Santo, Woo, Mr. Cub, ”The Girls,” Sweet Lou, Hendry, WGN, Mr. Wrigley, Tribune Co, and The Billy Goats of the World, and the Best Fans in Baseball
I SAY
GO CUBS GO …. Go Cubs Go
Hey Chicago What Do You Say …
THE CUBS ARE GONNA WIN TODAY!
Ummm. Not as such. Swept by the D-Backs
I think it’s safe to say that another pawn has been added to the legacy of the Cubs’ legendary “curse.”
Sianis, Durham, Garvey, Bartman, and now … the bozo that hung a goat on Harry Caray - whatever his name is.
If anything, the goats in heaven looked down and likely added another 100 years to the existing Billy Goat Curse after this little stunt.
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