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NNadir

(33,477 posts) Thu Oct 22, 2015, 12:53 AM Oct 2015

This Mets fan would like to congratulate the Cub fans on their fine, young...

...team of outstanding baseball players.

Some of here really felt for you, watching your faces at Wrigley. As Mets fans, we've been there, done that.

The team you have will surely go to the Series one day, and, I think, win it.

We'd like to thank you for an excellent clean series. We wish you the best.

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This Mets fan would like to congratulate the Cub fans on their fine, young... (Original Post) NNadir Oct 2015 OP

fuck the Mets Skittles Oct 2015 #1

Thanks, Mets, for keeping the jinx in effect Sanity Claws Oct 2015 #2

I understand that the curse resulted from not letting Murphy the Goat on the field. NNadir Oct 2015 #3

Haha Sanity Claws Oct 2015 #4

It's an allusion to Daniel Murphy. NNadir Oct 2015 #5

Skittles

(153,122 posts)

1. fuck the Mets

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 01:51 AM

Oct 2015

oops, sorry

Sanity Claws

(21,841 posts)

2. Thanks, Mets, for keeping the jinx in effect

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 10:33 AM

Oct 2015

The Chicago Cubs have to do some kind of un-hexing to get rid of the curse, just as the Red Sox had to undo Babe Ruth's curse.

NNadir

(33,477 posts)

3. I understand that the curse resulted from not letting Murphy the Goat on the field.

Reply to Sanity Claws (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 02:22 PM

Oct 2015

Murphy was let on the field over the last two days, and I believe Murphy got whatever it was out of his system.

(We're all still mystified by what happened to Murphy in LA and Chicago.)

On behalf of at least one Met fan, that would be me, I believe the curse has been exorcised.

Do what we always do in times like this: "Wait 'til next year.'

The Chicago Cubs are a really good team, and your fans have every right to be proud of themselves and their team.

Sanity Claws

(21,841 posts)

4. Haha

Reply to NNadir (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 03:14 PM

Oct 2015

I haven't followed baseball in several years but I remember the silly curses.
Did the Cubs get a goat named Murphy and allow him on the field this year to undo the curse?
Or is this an allusion to something else?

NNadir

(33,477 posts)

5. It's an allusion to Daniel Murphy.

Reply to Sanity Claws (Reply #4)

Thu Oct 22, 2015, 10:29 PM

Oct 2015

He has been a steady if not exactly spectacular baseball player for the Mets for his entire career. Suddenly, in the playoffs, he began hitting home run after home run off four of the top pitchers in baseball. He hit six in six games, an all time record. He defeated the Cubs two best pitchers with home runs, Arrieta and Lester.

During the regular season Daniel Murphy only hit 13 home runs.

Everyone's been trying to figure out how this happened, how he suddenly got so hot, including Daniel Murphy himself.

It may have something to do with some kind of curse.

It appears, that besides the goat Murphy who was denied admittance to Wrigley field in 1945, prompting the curse, several Cubs failures involved people named Murphy, making the mystery of Daniel Murphy, the latest Murphy to interfere with curse breaking, even more compelling. John Murphy was the General Manager of the Mets in 1969 when they passed the Cubs for first place in 1969 after the Cubs led for most of the season. A Mets announcer in games against the Cubs was Bob Murphy. The Cubs lost the 1984 playoffs to the San Diego Padres at Jack Murphy stadium.

Of all the Murphy's to mess with the Cubs, Daniel is the only one to do it on the field, and hence I claim the curse is broken.

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