Is new blog design cursed?

Launched new blog design this afternoon. Due for a change after 3 1/2 years and all of LexBlog client’s designs putting mine to shame. We’ll clean up a few bugs tomorrow.

But as a Cubs’ fan, maybe this wasn’t the right day for the launch. Ryan Dempster, our version of a stopper, blew the Cubs’ ninth inning lead by serving up a three run homer and a wild pitch to let in one more at Wrigley this afternoon. With the loss we forfeited first place in the division with only a few weeks to go.

I sure hope this is blog isn’t cursed like the Cubs. The curse? As described by wikipedia:

Billy Sianis, a Greek immigrant, who owned a nearby tavern (the now-famous Billy Goat Tavern), had two $7.20 box seat tickets to Game 4 of the 1945 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, and decided to bring along his pet goat, Murphy, which Sianis had restored to health when the goat had fallen off a truck and subsequently limped into his tavern.

The goat wore a blanket with a sign pinned to it which read “We got Detroit’s goat”. Sianis and the goat were allowed into Wrigley Field and even paraded about on the playing field before the game before ushers intervened and led them off the field. After a heated argument, both Sianis and the goat were permitted to stay in the stadium occupying the box seat for which he had tickets.

Before the game was over, Sianis and the goat were ejected from the stadium at the command of Cubs owner Philip Knight Wrigley due to the animal’s objectionable odor. Sianis was outraged at the ejection and allegedly placed a curse upon the Cubs that they would never win another pennant or play in a World Series at Wrigley Field again because the Cubs organization had insulted his goat, and subsequently left the U.S. to vacation in his home in Greece. Think we’re not cursed? The Cubs haven’t won a world series in a 100 years. Haven’t even played in a world series in 62 years – when the goat attended.