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Debunking the supernatural solution to bad teams

By Tim Keown
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

I read a story Monday suggesting that Philadelphia in general and the Phillies in particular are cursed. You know, like there's some supernatural reason why their professional sports franchises have had an epic aversion to championships. It's got to be something spooky and vaguely occultish because somebody made something up after noticing something you could relate to the condition of the city's major-sports teams. This Philly thing, apparently, is the Curse of Billy Penn, enacted after the c ...

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