Sports Illustrated Jinxes the Cubs in April? Coverline: “It’s Gonna Happen”
Baseball, Media Gossip/Musings April 29th. 2008, 11:29am
We think this might be exclusive, since it won’t hit the SI website (and mailboxes) until later today, and newsstands Thursday, but this week’s cover is pure genius. Jinx much? The Cubs are in first - write it down, April 29, 16-9, one game lead over the Cards - Derrek Lee is swinging that MVP bat again, Zambrano is having the best April of his career, the $136 million man is coming off the DL Thursday, and the rookie coverboy is fifth in the NL in OBP. What could go wrong?
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April 29th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Those poor bastards.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Haha. Way to go SI! Its official the Dbacks are your National League Champions.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Lets go dbacks.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:36 am
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…THAT’S TERRIFIC..JUST TERRIFIC..
April 29th, 2008 at 11:37 am
To me, the most surprising thing about this cover comes right at the top. The teams SI apparently covered for their Spring college football article went a combined 25-26 last year.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:37 am
The Cubs will have to wait another 100 years until Steve Bartman’s progeny dies off.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:38 am
“It’s not gonna Happen”
/fixed
April 29th, 2008 at 11:38 am
FUCK Sports Illustrated.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Who would employ Peter King anyways? assholes
April 29th, 2008 at 11:38 am
The Cubs haven’t shown me they can be cosistent enough to weather the storms that you face over a 162 game season, where 7 times out of 10 you’ll fail. But I admit I haven’t seen them enough to say one way or another. Trading for Gary Sheffield or hiring a minority coach might change my opinion.
-Joe Morgan
April 29th, 2008 at 11:39 am
This just in…Derrick Lee was put on the Madden 09 cover instead of Brett Farve.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:39 am
On a side note, Fuck You Dome sleeps with pastrami on his face at night.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:40 am
3 weeks into his MLB career, and he’s already proclaimed the savior of a 100 year drought. I guess they’re saving his “Hall of Fame” cover until July. Sometimes I just don’t understand.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Hey Jay, SI said it, it’s not like a fan is blabing it, although I’m sure there are plenty doing that as well. I just see this turning out like the Bears LAST superbowl…
April 29th, 2008 at 11:42 am
They gotta feed the monkey.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Fukudome already has 1 home run at this rate he’ll hit 6! That shoyuld end the drought.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:43 am
for the love of steve bartman and the ghosts of dead goats, let this curse come true!
April 29th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Of the whole Fukodome thing…the crowd cahnting his name (which I got a nice taste of last Monday night) is one of the cooler things going…I did just hear the Sam Zell put two World Series tickets in every players locker for motivation. That works well…just ask Jerry Facelift Jones.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Whats a magazine? Is it like the internet, only on some kind of paper and containing week old news.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Damn I hate the cubs.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Coming soon: News that Fukudome is dating Jessica Simpson.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:47 am
@COOP: I remember magazines, they are good for the pooper
April 29th, 2008 at 11:47 am
The Cubbies are completely fucked.
Sincerely,
Joe Carter, Cory Snyder, and the rest of the 61-100 ‘87 Indians
April 29th, 2008 at 11:47 am
this is fantastic
April 29th, 2008 at 11:50 am
It’s not a ridiculous prediction, by the way. But SI is the one who chose to interview him, not vice versa.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:51 am
We all know the Marlins are coming out of the NL.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Well this is just fucking great.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:55 am
The Pirates are 1-0 now that we’ve cut Matt Morris. At this rate, we’ll clearly be the WS Champs.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Someone make sure Diesel steers clear of all bridges and tall buidlings.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
From the kickass SI Vault:
In investigating virtually all of SI’s 2,456 covers, we found 913 “jinxes” — a demonstrable misfortune or decline in performance following a cover appearance roughly 37.2 percent of the time.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
I’m looking at the river out the window of my office, I think I could make it to the water if I jump out my window
April 29th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Drowning > Splattering if you miss the river
April 29th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
@diesel: you should try to make it to the Lake
April 29th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Not a bad idea, I’m close to where the river flows into the lake but I like my chances to make the river better.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I don’t think that going on the cover is a jinx. It’s more that SI jumps on when somebody is at their peak, and there is nowhere to go but down. Jordan and Tiger have never been “jinxed”. It’s kind of like the stock market, the average person buys high and sells low.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
@ark- I hear ya, brother; and the Assholestros are a close second on my list.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
Fucking fantastic. That makes me more than a little salty.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
The Chicago River flows away from the lake after some engineering to ensure that Chicago sewage flowed away from the city and didn’t wind up all over the lake beaches.
St. Bear hit it on the head. Some teams will inevitably slide because SI is picking them up at their peak or at least close to it.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Completely agree, St. Bear. It’s like the time I made the cover of Boy’s Life. Nowhere to go but down, baby.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
It’s exclusive to all those who are online subscribers to SI. Hooray for sources!
April 29th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
And yeah, the Cubs are fucked.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
SI picked the Tigers to win the World Series this year in their baseball preview issue. Look how that turned out… I don’t think this counts as a jinx, they already jinxed the Tigers.
April 29th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Said the gal while clicking her heels together…
April 29th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
The jinx will not go into effect until Santo pronounces Fukudomes’ name correctly.
“Say Patrick, what did Fuuckodummi do in his at bat?”
April 29th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
@nomo - I’ve already made a Jobu alter in my cubicle to keep the jinx away.
April 29th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
fixed
April 29th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
@Sportsgal - What are the chances of a guy like you and a girl like me ending up together?
April 29th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
@nomo - I’d say more like one in a million.
April 29th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
If we have a TBL shindig (how many times have we said that) in Sportsgal’s city, how many of you will show? How many of you have made friends with her on myspace? don’t lie …
April 29th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Thanks, TBL, now I get to see a bunch of people comment on how much they hate me or that they think I’m a dude, blah blah blah…
April 29th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
I’d be there, Sportsgal already stalks me anyway.
April 29th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
@TBL: I’d be there. Sure, it’s a 4.5 hour drive for me, but the idea of me kicking Diesel in the nuts and then carrying my one true off into the sunset will be worth it.
@Sportsgal: So you’re saying there’s a chance!
April 29th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
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April 29th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Exactly. How would this be considered a jinx? If they don’t win the WS? Don’t make the playoffs? Those are very and somewhat likely, respectively, SI cover or not.
April 29th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Nomo, I just kicked in the balls repeatedly by work so you are in the clear.
April 29th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
See what I mean. I just got kicked