Cubs, Red Sox bring their curse-breaking trophies together for a good cause

When someone mentions baseball curses, there are two that should jump to mind almost immediately: the Boston Red Sox/Curse of the Bambino, and the Chicago Cubs/Curse of the Billy Goat. There aren’t many curses in baseball (or even in sports) that equal those.

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We now live in a world where both of those curses have been broken. The Red Sox broke their 86-year-old curse when they won the World Series in 2004. And the Cubs broke their 108-year-old curse when they won the 2016 World Series. And with the two curse-breaking teams playing each other in a three-game series this weekend, an idea was born: why not bring the two trophies together?

While it’s possible that bringing two curse-breaking trophies together would open up a wormhole to a parallel dimension, the purpose is actually much simpler than that. The two trophies will be on display at Fenway Park on Sunday so fans at the game can snap pictures with both of them.

Fans who want to pose with the trophies will be asked for a recommended donation of $20 (which will support the Red Sox Foundation and Cubs Charities), but that’s a small price to pay for a picture with two of the most famous trophies in sports.

Fenway will actually be the trophies’ second stop of the weekend. The Chicago Tribune reported that the trophies will be displayed on Saturday night at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston as part of a charity event called Hot Stove Cool Music. Players from the Cubs and Red Sox are expected to be there, and there will be music from noted Cubs fan (and Pearl Jam lead singer) Eddie Vedder. The event will benefit the Red Sox Foundation and also the Foundation To Be Named Later, which was founded by Cubs president Theo Epstein and his twin brother, Paul.

The two trophies have something very important in common: Theo Epstein. Epstein was the GM of the Red Sox when they won in 2004, and he was (and still is) the president of the Cubs when they won in 2016. Maybe to open up that wormhole, Theo has to touch them both at the same time. If he’s at the event on Saturday night, someone should get him to test that theory.

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Liz Roscher is a writer for Big League Stew on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email her at lizroscher@yahoo.com or follow her on twitter! Follow @lizroscher