This year, the championship-hunting Cubs need to bag a pair of Murphy's.
There’s an old nemesis — Murphy, the infamous goat blamed for the curse of the Cubbies and a World Series drought dating to 1908.
And there’s a new tormentor — Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy, whose clutch play with the bat and on the bases propelled the Amazin’s into the National League Championship Series against the Cubs beginning Saturday.
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Their shared Irish surname sent a shiver down the spine of Bill Sianis, whose great uncle Billy Sianis laid the enduring hex on the Cubs during the 1945 World Series after owner P.