Curses...

Over the past couple seasons I've become increasingly annoyed with these curses that some fans say exist on their teams. Thankfully, the people of New England, the worst offenders of them all, will finally shut up about their supposed "Curse of the Bambino" now that Boston finally broke through and won last year leaving the Cubs and White Sox alone atop the longest World Series droughts list, although they already were as the White Sox' drought had been 1 year longer than Boston's.
The BoSox winning left the Cubs as the lone perennial choke artists whose fans insist on some kind of hex keeping their team from winning the World Series. The funniest thing about the sCrUBS curse is that it is not some major event that went down in baseball lure, as was Boston's trading of Babe Ruth. It's a bad joke in comparison. In short, Cubs fans believe that their team was cursed by a local tavern owner whose goat would not be allowed into Wrigley Field during the Cubs last WS appearance in '45, so he cursed the team to never again win a World Series. They ended up losing that year, and haven't returned ever since. Had it not been for Bartman, that would most likely be the excuse we'd be hearing about the collapse of '03. The only curse that the Cubs have is that they are the Cubs.
Bartman is the perfect example of Cubs fans using a scapegoat for why they lost. They completely ignore the fact that Prior imploded, they botched a double play ball at short, and that 8 runs were scored in that inning and all of that did not happen on a play for one foul ball. On top of that, they still had a game 7 to choke on before falling to the Marlins. No, it wasn't the Cubs choking as usual, it was all Bartman's fault...the one guy who got a piece of the ball when he was surrounded by 10 other fans reaching out for it just as he was. Some honestly believe that little tip cost them 8 runs in that inning and an entire game 7. And don't even try to tell me it shifted the momentum...the count on that hitter hadn't changed, nobody on the bases moved up or scored, the game hadn't changed a bit. But that's not how many Cubs fans see it. They seem to believe all that happened on that one play. Look up delusional in the dictionary and you just might see a picture of a Cubs fan beside it.
When your team has thrown a World Series more recently than you've won one, come talk to me about having a legitimate reason for being cursed. Good thing that we White Sox faithful are much to savvy to buy into such BS and to resort to such pettiness. Sox fans blame their team for their failures and not a ridiculous "curse". We know, especially after witnessing Boston last fall, that the only thing that keeps any team from winning is the players that they send out onto the field, and most importantly the pitchers they send out to the hill. So to all the morons out there preaching about "curses", please just shut up about it and let it go.
(disclaimer: This does not implicate ALL Cubs fans, just MOST of them. Some do live in reality. To those who do and freely admit that the Cubs just suck, to you I say, "I know they do."