Cubs Renounce Satan, Still Lose Game One [Nlds]
Deadspin —
The Cubs have yet to get a handle on this curse business, no matter how hard they try. While a Catholic priest was furiously blessing their dugout (this is true) before their Game 1 NLDS showdown with the Dodgers on Wednesday, outside of Wrigley Field another drama was unfolding. A man by the name of Jim Schererville was trying to get his pet goat, Tito, into the game, and of course was having no luck (the goat's Harry Caray disguise did not help, strangely enough). Given the Cubs' track record with goats and curses, the two events canceled out each other and Chicago settled back into their comfortable 100-year niche of ...
God Has No Interest in Saving the Cubs
The Sporting Blog —
I’m not a religious man, so maybe I don’t understand, but nothing has ever made less sense to me than the notion that God -- in whatever form you prefer to believe -- sides with one team over the other in a sporting contest. ...
Apparently, God Has Better Things To Do
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog —
Cubs fans are superstitious lot. OH, YOU KNEW THAT ALREADY. These people pray to Harry Caray, believe a small little man in a turtleneck “cursed” them, and hang goats. Superstitious. Also: insane.
Delightfully absent from these abuses of intellect has been religion. It’s rare, I think, to hear a Cubs fan actually pray. I don’t mean prayer to the baseball gods, or to the god of switching the remote from one’s left hand to his right every half inning. No, I mean an actual, real-deal, dyed-in-the-wool capital-D Deity. Jesu Cristo. Allah. Yahweh. Dudes like that.
No more. ...
Chicago Cubs Get Priest To Bless The Cubs Dugout and Pour Holy Water On It Before Game 1 of NLDS
FanIQ Blog —
I heard a story in passing yesterday about how a priest had been brought in by the Tribune Company to "bless" the Cubs dugout before the first game of the Cubs/Dodgers NLDS. At the time, it sounded like a joke. No one could possibly do something that ridiculous.
Plus, the Cubs curse is the Curse of the Billy Goat, which if I'm not mistaken, has nothing specifically to do with evil spirits or Satan.
But I guess when you haven't won a World Series in a century, you'll do whatever it takes. So yes, Greek orthodox priest Reverend Father James Prianius of ...
Even Jesus hates the Cubs
Epic Carnival —
by GMoney, The Money Shot The Cubs, and more so Cubs fans, are pathetic. We all know this. That is why I'm hoping that this is not real. Apparently, some sort of holy man tried to exorcise the home dugout before game 1. Yeah, that worked out well for you. Maybe next year... ...
James Greanias Video - Did he curse the Cubs?
Knuckle Curve —
According to a number of reports, Greek Orthodox priest Reverend Father James Greanias was brought in to exorcise the Chicago Cubs dugout prior to Game 1 of their NLDS series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. In the video at the this entry, you can see him at work in the Cubs dugout.
However, now that the Cubs got swept by the Dodgers, some Cubs fans are wondering whether he accidentally cursed the 2008 Cubs instead. Greanias, who is from St. Iakovos Church, traveled from his Valparaiso home to do the exorcism. With the way the Cubs played in the regular season, it didn’t appear as if they needed to be exorcised. ...
