Talk:Curse of the Billy Goat

message: The Billy Sianis article isn't strictly biographical and covers a lot of the same ground, I think it should be merged. BoojiBoy 21:54, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with ''Billy Sianis'' 

message: Does anyone want to discuss the possibility that the Chicago Cubs curse stems from the Merkle incident as much as it does from the Billy Goat curse of 1945? That the Cubs used trickery to steal the 1908 pennant away from the Giants, embarassing young Merkle in the process, and this is why they haven't won a World Series since that year? The curse of the Billy Goat, yes, but what about the Curse of Merkle? User:151.163.2.8 (Talk) 18:39, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Curse of Merkle 

message: The part in this article about the 1998 NLCS seems misleading.  The Cubs actually had a six games to one lead in the series at one point.  They were ahead three games to two in game 17, but the wording in that part of the article seems to say they were only one game ahead of the Marlins in the series at any time.  It makes the evidence of a curse clearer since they were one game away from the World Series with 3 chances to clitch, but didn't win any of the games.  I'm going to try and clarify this. 147.155.2.164 04:15, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example of curse 

message: The story in this article is not what i heard about the billygoat. the true story is the man went to every game of the regular season, and when it came to the world series they wouldnt let him in. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.148.72.130 (talk) 00:50, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  wrong information 

message: What is the point of this straggler sentence? I'll be removing in a moment, but just wanted to drop an FYI in case it is somehow relevant perhaps if better integrated into the article. aerotheque (talk) 19:24, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Getting out of the dark ages?" 

message: Just for the record, I've made a bunch of tidy-up edits on this article (sorry for using an IP address; long story -- though I'm not banned from WP or anything).
Not sure if this fulfills the clean-up tag posted above the article. Perhaps it can be removed now? 92.6.210.71 (talk) 17:00, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  clean-up 

message: I added section headers so the table of contents would list the topics. Pknkly (talk) 18:13, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section headers 

message: Even though this article goes on for several paragraphs, as far as I can tell it is lacking a vital piece of information: that the Cubs have still not won a World Series since 1945. I had to go to the Chicago Cubs main article to verify this fact. I think this should be included in the opening paragraph.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by AlanSiegrist (talk • contribs) 23:08, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears that the curse refers to the Cubs not winning a World Series game at Wrigley Field.  As the Cleveland Indians have home field advantage in the World Series, it is possible that the Cubs could win the 2016 World Series and still not break the Curse. 47.137.190.123 (talk) 03:08, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's an incorrect interpretation as they won Game 6 at Wrigley in 1945.  I always remember hearing the story as being there would be never be another World Series played at Wrigley.Froo (talk) 12:25, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: See the clarifying telegram mentioned on the page, the curse concerns never being World Champions again (their last was in 1908), so the "curse" is still in effect until... Randy Kryn 15:54, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: There, I've rewrote the first sentence to "The Curse of the Billy Goat is the name of a sports-related curse..." which seems like neutral language and does not commit Wikipedia. Randy Kryn 21:11, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Cubs have not broken the curse, right? 

message: Someone just sent Tom Ricketts a goat's severed head. http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/9158055/goat-head-delivered-chicago-cubs-owner-tom-ricketts-wrigley-field Hitmonchan (talk) 00:36, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this relevant? 

message: WP:ONEEVENT. Not notable outside the curse. JDDJS (talk) 22:46, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Billy Sianis]] 

message: Can we add to the last part of "Attempts to break the curse" and mention that Daniel Murphy was the NLCS MVP hitting a homerun every game of the Mets sweep and the name of the goat is also Murphy. 
Sources:
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/155217948/daniel-murphy-wins-nlcs-mvp-hits-record-homer
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/10/chicago-cubs-daniel-murphy-new-york-mets-billy-goat-nlcs-mlb  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.106.4.6 (talk) 15:48, 23 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mets sweep additional info 

message: Can somebody post the iconic 1969 black cat image to alleged curse incidents sections ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.168.129.10 (talk) 12:19, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  1969 Black Cat Image 

message: Ohio is misspelled in the caption of image "The Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians play Game 7 of the World Series at Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohia, Nov. 2, 2016."
Rambler444 (talk) 14:15, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Done JTP (talk • contribs) 14:25, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 3 November 2016 

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message: I have again reverted the lead line of this article to remove the superfluous "was the name of" repeatedly added, without consensus, in March by Lln78933 and their sock puppet Do304304.  As explained in my revert, the article is about the supposed "curse", not about the name of the supposed curse.  It's a slim distinction, but one worth making when writing a clear and concise lead sentence.   If any editor feels that adding "was the name of" was an improvement, I'm happy to discuss it here.  Thanks.  --Escape Orbit (Talk) 19:10, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead sentence