Letter to the Editor: Is the Babe Curse in Vancouver?

The Standard (St. Catharines, Ontario)
February 16, 2010

Dear Editor,

Do you remember the Bambino curse? In 1919, the Boston Red Sox traded their star player, George Herman "Babe" Ruth, to their nemesis the New York Yankees. Thus the legend of the Bambino Curse that the Red Sox would never win a World Series. The curse was lifted in 2004.

The Chicago Cubs last appeared in a World Series in 1945. That was the beginning of the Billy Goat curse. Legend says a Mr. Sianis, owner of a said Billy Goat Tavern, was asked to leave a World Series game at Wrigley Field due to his pet goat's odour bothering other fans. He left, but not before putting a curse on the Cubs: "Them Cubs, they aren't gonna win no more."
Newspapers have immortalized him and his goat since as the curse that stops the Cubs from going to the World Series.

Now Mother Nature is about to lay a curse on the VANOC, the British Columbia Supreme Court and the Olympic Committee. The curse? That snow won't accumulate for these Olympics.

The reason? Because women ski jumpers are not allowed to participate at these Olympics. Ski jumping is the only sport where men are represented but not women. Thus the curse begins.

When will the curse be removed? Only Mother Nature or David Suzuki might know.

Ron St. Louis

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