The Cure and Our Mission
The past years Huckleberry has been doing extensive research on “the curse” and “the cure” for his beloved Chicago Cubs. He has concluded that the Cubs have to be genuinely nice to goats and not just for their own benefit. They must help “Goats” make the world a better place thru education and exercise all across the globe. The Cubs infuriated the baseball gods and da Bambino in 1918 and then in 1945 they go and mess with “Murphy”the goat, who was one of their biggest fans….
In the parallel world of baseball and baseball gods these are mortal sins!…Tossin the series to the Bambino and then tossin “Murphy” from Wrigley and telling people they did it: “Because the goat stinks” was brutal. Chaining Murphy to a pole – a good, innocent goat – a freakin Cub fan who listened to hundreds of games with Billy on the radio as they tended to day to day business at the tavern was a crime against all that is good…
The Cubs are gonna have to do a lot of good in a short period of time because the world needs them now…The great Cub spirit created by tens of millions of people thru four generations…. The spirit of 69 spirit that helped Chicago forget the tragedies and riots of 68.—The spirit of 2003 when those kids Pryor and Wood pushed their bodies beyond their limits as Cub fever overloaded their adrenaline glands….The spirit of Ernie! The spirit of Ronnie, Sweet swingin Billy ,Gabby from the gloaming, all the old timers who have come and gone in Wrigley– the ghosts of failed pennants passed pasts who are there waiting to help when the Cubs realize who they are and what they represent. We offer them a blueprint of where to start to lift this evil curse: We believe if the Cubs help with these good programs next year will be here and for some brief shining moments the Cubs will show no dream is impossible.
- The Cubs need Dave CLARK’s Dream and Do Disability Day in Wrigley Field. http://www.d3day.com/ Dave CLARK’s love of the game and will to win and overcome obstacles is incredible. Dave is an old goat who still has lots of milk to give to the world and his events brighten days of kids and parents who have so much love. We want baseball back in the Olympics and this will be a good start with baseball in the Special Olympics that were created here in Chicago by so many great giving people.
- We want to create a million smiles with the Bocken Cup (Goatfest) in Gefle Sweden, the home of the Gefle Flaming Goats baseball club. http://www5.idrottonline.se/GefleBC-BasebollSBF/Foreningen/OmGefleslogo/ The annual Baseball Festival this August 28-29 brings together 16 and under baseball players from across Sweden fore a tournament. The Cubs need to help get some kids from Chicago over there for a week of baseball and maybe some hockey as the Swedes have been so good to our Chicago Blackhawks. The Gefle Flaming Goats have been sacrificing to keep baseball alive in Sweden for a long time. The Gefle Flaming Goats were instrumental in saving their 3 ton Christmas Goat from fire in 2015 to try and help end the curse for an old clown. The Flaming Goats of Gefle have been spreading the good news of baseball for generations –not for the money or the media induced stardom but for the love of the game.
- We want to create school exchanges for student athletes in Sweden, the USA, Germany and whatever country or school that wants to get involved…We want to give student/athletes and teachers a chance to study and play their game in a different country as America/Baseball, Sweden/Hockey and Germany/Soccer are experts in their games. We also want to teach folks and people that we are all one people because divided our planet will not survive as we all breathe the same air, drink the same water and basically all want to live in a world where peace and prosperity prevail and every human is able to use his or her talents. We as a species have to get all the pieces in the puzzle together or ouir species will not survive. Our weapons of mass destruction are too powerful and the good people of the world must unite. Our scientific knowledge has opened up doors where humans can create an almost heaven on earth, Unfortunately, our Political Science has not evolved past the ancient Babylonians… We need to stop treating others as threats, rivals or enemies but members of the same human family…
- We want to do something about the 10,000 people locked up in the Crook County jail….We want to make sure kids know the difference between a felony and a misdemeanor — we want to go at the roots of crime and try and educate America away from mass incarceration.
This Mission and the lifting of the Cubs curse is a challenge far greater than the challenge encountered by the Mythical Greek Sysphilus and I do recall what happened to Faust after all of his dealings with good and evil– how he ended up building dams against the tides of the North Sea..The dams were never totally secure and must always be rebuilt.
Goethe kind of summed it up though when he said, “Only he deserves his life and freedom who conquers them anew every day.” We have to keep on trying to achieve the dream and create that peaceful and prosperous place here on earth…
One final thought:
An old Cherokee grandfather once told his grandson about a battle between two wolves inside us all.
One is Evil: It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, pride, superiority and ego.
The other is Good: It is joy, peace, love, hope, patience, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith…
The grandson thought about it and asked his grandfather: “Which wolf Wins?”
The grandfather replied, “The one you Feed…..”