Harry Caray's restaurant trying to Reverse the Curse

[Schwarber Fan]

CHICAGO, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- If you have the surname of Cohan, Chance, Steinfeldt, Tinker, Howard, Sheckard, Evers, Moran, Williams or Murphy -- you may have the power to break the Cubs' curse.

 

The mystery of why the beloved Chicago Cubs have been without a World Series title for 99 years has finally been solved. Harry Caray's Restaurant plans to go back in time and change the circumstances that doomed the team to mishap after mishap ever since their 1908 win.

 

Read on

[daske17]

God bless the restaurant for having some brilliant marketing schemes, but this is getting ridiculous.

 

What's next? Blowing up the corpse of Frank Chance while toasting a black cat that crossed Ron Santo's prosthetic legs?

 

When people think of Chicago as an uncultured and prototypical Midwestern city, this should be a leading example. You would never see this sort of thing in any other major sports city in America.

[Chris]

So people ate the Bartman ball for nothing?

[CoolHandLuke]

God bless the restaurant for having some brilliant marketing schemes, but this is getting ridiculous.

 

What's next? Blowing up the corpse of Frank Chance while toasting a black cat that crossed Ron Santo's prosthetic legs?

 

When people think of Chicago as an uncultured and prototypical Midwestern city, this should be a leading example. You would never see this sort of thing in any other major sports city in America.

 

How many major sports cities have teams with a world series drought approaching 100 years?

 

I don't understand the problem with them having a little fun with surnames and curses etc.

[VanceJergins]

God bless the restaurant for having some brilliant marketing schemes, but this is getting ridiculous.

 

What's next? Blowing up the corpse of Frank Chance while toasting a black cat that crossed Ron Santo's prosthetic legs?

 

When people think of Chicago as an uncultured and prototypical Midwestern city, this should be a leading example. You would never see this sort of thing in any other major sports city in America.

 

Thats a pretty ridiculous comment.

[David]

God bless the restaurant for having some brilliant marketing schemes, but this is getting ridiculous.

 

What's next? Blowing up the corpse of Frank Chance while toasting a black cat that crossed Ron Santo's prosthetic legs?

 

When people think of Chicago as an uncultured and prototypical Midwestern city, this should be a leading example. You would never see this sort of thing in any other major sports city in America.

 

Thats a pretty ridiculous comment.

 

In so many ways.

[Garwilly]

I always celebrate the Harry Caray anniversaries, I may even go to the bar this year for it.

[daske17]

God bless the restaurant for having some brilliant marketing schemes, but this is getting ridiculous.

 

What's next? Blowing up the corpse of Frank Chance while toasting a black cat that crossed Ron Santo's prosthetic legs?

 

When people think of Chicago as an uncultured and prototypical Midwestern city, this should be a leading example. You would never see this sort of thing in any other major sports city in America.

 

Thats a pretty ridiculous comment.

 

In so many ways.

 

It most certainly is not. This is the type of po-dunk, two horse town stuff you would see relating to a minor league team, not a major league franchise.

 

And name one other pro sports franchise where this sort of thing would happen. Even though the Red Sox and White Sox had streaks approaching 100 years, they didn't go down the road of bringing goats to the ballpark, blowing up a baseball(!!) and now trying to get a seance-type dinner for one of the most obscure "curses" I've ever heard of.

[Electron Blue]

God bless the restaurant for having some brilliant marketing schemes, but this is getting ridiculous.

 

What's next? Blowing up the corpse of Frank Chance while toasting a black cat that crossed Ron Santo's prosthetic legs?

 

When people think of Chicago as an uncultured and prototypical Midwestern city, this should be a leading example. You would never see this sort of thing in any other major sports city in America.

 

Thats a pretty ridiculous comment.

 

In so many ways.

 

It most certainly is not. This is the type of po-dunk, two horse town stuff you would see relating to a minor league team, not a major league franchise.

 

And name one other pro sports franchise where this sort of thing would happen. Even though the Red Sox and White Sox had streaks approaching 100 years, they didn't go down the road of bringing goats to the ballpark, blowing up a baseball(!!) and now trying to get a seance-type dinner for one of the most obscure "curses" I've ever heard of.

 

Whether or not another team/city would do this is debatable - you may be right. BUt the negative spin you're putting on it . . . I just don't see it. Ideally, people would look at it as fun silliness, no more no less. If people from "other cities" are failing to be lighthearted about it, you're in the same boat as they are.

[Andy]

I thought you bumped a thread from early 2004

[Mark Priors Calves]

grant deporter needs to go away.

[B]

I will show up in my model-T.

[daske17]

Whether or not another team/city would do this is debatable - you may be right. BUt the negative spin you're putting on it . . . I just don't see it. Ideally, people would look at it as fun silliness, no more no less. If people from "other cities" are failing to be lighthearted about it, you're in the same boat as they are.

 

I understand the lighthearted nature of the promotion, and on their face, they're harmless. However, Cubs fans in particular are seen as "who cares about the game as long as the beer is flowing." This does nothing to change that stereotype.

[NCCubFan]

Broiled lobster for 80 cents. I need to change my last name so I can qualify. :D

[Electron Blue]

Whether or not another team/city would do this is debatable - you may be right. BUt the negative spin you're putting on it . . . I just don't see it. Ideally, people would look at it as fun silliness, no more no less. If people from "other cities" are failing to be lighthearted about it, you're in the same boat as they are.

 

I understand the lighthearted nature of the promotion, and on their face, they're harmless. However, Cubs fans in particular are seen as "who cares about the game as long as the beer is flowing." This does nothing to change that stereotype.

 

uh, but the beer is flowing - what's the problem? ;)

[stuy119]

CHICAGO, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- If you have the surname of Cohan, Chance, Steinfeldt, Tinker, Howard, Sheckard, Evers, Moran, Williams or Murphy -- you may have the power to break the Cubs' curse.

 

The mystery of why the beloved Chicago Cubs have been without a World Series title for 99 years has finally been solved. Harry Caray's Restaurant plans to go back in time and change the circumstances that doomed the team to mishap after mishap ever since their 1908 win.

 

Read on

 

Didn't anyone else giggle to themselves when they saw Moran was part of the lineup?

[J.R.]

Even though the Red Sox and White Sox had streaks approaching 100 years, they didn't go down the road of bringing goats to the ballpark, blowing up a baseball(!!) and now trying to get a seance-type dinner for one of the most obscure "curses" I've ever heard of.

 

I seem to recall plenty of Boston stuff over the years, like asking the Babe's daughter to come to Fenway to urge Ruth to end his stranglehold on the team, and the efforts to raise the Babe's piano from the bottom of a lake.

 

Nobody gives a damn about the White Sox.

[GhostRunner]

CHICAGO, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- If you have the surname of Cohan, Chance, Steinfeldt, Tinker, Howard, Sheckard, Evers, Moran, Williams or Murphy -- you may have the power to break the Cubs' curse.

 

The mystery of why the beloved Chicago Cubs have been without a World Series title for 99 years has finally been solved. Harry Caray's Restaurant plans to go back in time and change the circumstances that doomed the team to mishap after mishap ever since their 1908 win.

 

Read on

 

Didn't anyone else giggle to themselves when they saw Moran was part of the lineup?

I did. Now it all makes sense . . . Pat Moran (d. 1924) needs to get a brain! Star-spangled-bandana Cardinals guy apparently knows his dead-ball era baseball players.

 

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[imb]

Even though the Red Sox and White Sox had streaks approaching 100 years, they didn't go down the road of bringing goats to the ballpark, blowing up a baseball(!!) and now trying to get a seance-type dinner for one of the most obscure "curses" I've ever heard of.

 

I seem to recall plenty of Boston stuff over the years, like asking the Babe's daughter to come to Fenway to urge Ruth to end his stranglehold on the team, and the efforts to raise the Babe's piano from the bottom of a lake.

 

Nobody gives a damn about the White Sox.

 

Thank you. It's not as if the Cub's themselves are doing this, that might be a little too cheesy. It's a restaurant named in honor of the goofiest broadcaster ever. No one looks at this and things "those chicago hicks!". It's all in fun and everyone knows that they aren't really doing this in order to reverse the curse, but to make a little money. Chill.

[erik316wttn]

Because blowing up the Bartman ball worked out so well.