Upon doing a bit of research that day, I found that a few different people had put forth the theory long before me, but I'd only ever heard of the curse of the goat until I looked around online the day of that thread.

Still, it's something impossible to miss if you've ever heard of Merkle's Boner. How just the year alone doesn't make any curse theorist's hair stand on end I don't know. When I first heard about it, that was the first thing I thought.

Maybe now that the Giants have had their moment in the sun, the Cubs will be recompensed, and hopefully Merkle can rest in peace. All silliness about baseball and curses aside, the man was absolutely haunted all of his life, all of it unwarranted, because of the media circus involving that play, and it made him an angry, embittered person. I pray the Atonement of our Savior will bless him to feel peace and forgive those who made his life harder than it should have been.