[bears9]

In response to a dead goat being next to Harry Carey's statue in Wrigleyville, Carol Slezak who has quickly became my least favorite Sun-Times sports coulmnist wrote a column saying if everyone shut up about the goat the Cubs might winning something. Would it work?

I doubt it would, if you have as good of a team as we did last year and you still get swept there is some weird karmatic thing hurting you. But would forgetting about the goat make it disappear?

When will people stop obsessing with that goat? :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Carol Slezak

[Full Cougar]

Forgetting about it is worth a try right?

[bears9]

Originally Posted by Full Cougar

Forgetting about it is worth a try right?

No. Because the Cubs were far and away the best team in the NL last year, they would've beat the Rays in the Series and they didn't win a game. There has to be some weird karmatic thing at work

[Bette]

Originally Posted by bears9

No. Because the Cubs were far and away the best team in the NL last year, they would've beat the Rays in the Series and they didn't win a game. There has to be some weird karmatic thing at work

Karma as in maybe they are just real good choke artists????

[Full Cougar]

Originally Posted by Bette

Karma as in maybe they are just real good choke artists????

I think that's the karma he is reffering to.

[bears9]

Originally Posted by Bette

Karma as in maybe they are just real good choke artists????

Being good at choking can effect a team or two, over 100 years do you know how many different players have gone through there. They can't all be choke artists. Ryan Dempster was huge when the Marlins won their first world series, went to crap last playoffs, Derick Lee was great for the Marlins when they won their second ring, went to crap in the playoffs.

Ladies and Gentleman, Karma

[Full Cougar]

Originally Posted by bears9

Being good at choking can effect a team or two, over 100 years do you know how many different players have gone through there. They can't all be choke artists. Ryan Dempster was huge when the Marlins won their first world series, went to crap last playoffs, Derick Lee was great for the Marlins when they won their second ring, went to crap in the playoffs.

Ladies and Gentleman, Karma

1. Where would karma come from? What did they do wrong?

2. Maybe the choke because all the players come and they get so worked up about the "curse". Therfore, they play bad.

[bears9]

Originally Posted by Full Cougar

1. Where would karma come from? What did they do wrong?

2. Maybe the choke because all the players come and they get so worked up about the "curse". Therfore, they play bad.

I don't know, but I'm becoming the guy from Knowing when it comes to the Cubs, where he believes stuff has no reason to it and "**** just happens" And I think karma makes bad **** just happen to the Cubs.

I'm stealing Bill Simmons theory on how the Cubs will win a World Series and thats a dramatic karma swing, like getting down 2-0 in the NLCS and then as they are about to go down 3-0, Soriano hits a game winning home run or something like that. Weird karmatic swing

[Bette]

Choke artists.
They have choked in the playoffs before.
Otherwise I can claim Tony Romo has bad karma.
Its one or the other, choke artist or bad karma.

[Full Cougar]

Originally Posted by Bette

Choke artists.
They have choked in the playoffs before.
Otherwise I can claim Tony Romo has bad karma.
Its one or the other, choke artist or bad karma.

But Romo hasn't been losing for 100 years.

[bears9]

Originally Posted by Bette

Choke artists.
They have choked in the playoffs before.
Otherwise I can claim Tony Romo has bad karma.
Its one or the other, choke artist or bad karma.

Romo is a choke artist because Romo isn't 100 different groups of 25 guys screwing up, you have to have terrible karma for that, because I garuntee not every all time Cubs player is a choker. That is karma, Romo is one person, who is a choke artist

[Full Cougar]

Romo is either a choke artist, or really unlucky in the play-offs. Like that bobbled snap. What was worse for him? Bobbling the snap, or when he fell just before the endzone?

[Bette]

Originally Posted by Full Cougar

Romo is either a choke artist, or really unlucky in the play-offs. Like that bobbled snap. What was worse for him? Bobbling the snap, or when he fell just before the endzone?

Both Bad Karma.
So if it cant be an individual according to Bears theory, then its the bad karma
of the Dallas Cowboys who havent won or gone beyond the first playoffs in like 13 years. So their bad karma affected Tony Romo.
By Bears' theory, Cowboys and Cubs have bad karma. The goat and bobbled snap are only symptoms of the disease.

[mike honcho]

Originally Posted by Full Cougar

Romo is either a choke artist, or really unlucky in the play-offs. Like that bobbled snap. What was worse for him? Bobbling the snap, or when he fell just before the endzone?

Everybody knows that wasn't Tony's fault.It was Jessica Simpson.hahahahaha

[Bette]

Originally Posted by mike honcho

Everybody knows that wasn't Tony's fault.It was Jessica Simpson.hahahahaha

Well, if thats not bad karma, I dont know what is.