Should Cubs Solve the Case of the Buried White Sox Cap?

If the saying, “If it weren’t for bad luck, you’d have no luck at all,” wasn’t coined to describe the Chicago Cubs, it should have been.

The history of misfortunes that have allowed the baseball team to continually capture defeat from the jaws of victory is legendary. The sheer volume of these mishaps has created a culture among even casual Cubs fans that believes in and respects the power of omens and curses.

That’s why the trivial revelation that a Chicago White Sox fan buried a 2005 World Series championship cap beneath freshly poured concrete somewhere in Wrigley Field while The Friendly Confines were being updated and remodeled recently seems so menacing to true Cubs backers. News of the South Sider’s gag came via Twitter:

Met @whitesox fan today that worked on the @Cubs recent renovations he buried a hat in thecement there @barstoolWSD pic.twitter.com/d5iHigceRW

— Allison Horne (@Rocknmystockins) August 29, 2015

The cap burial is similar to a 2008 incident when a Boston Red Sox fan hid a David Ortiz jersey during the construction of the New York Yankees’s new stadium. The Yankees—the Cubs’s diametrical opposite in Major League Baseball—had the jersey removed and auctioned for charity.

With less than a month left in the regular season, the Cubs are poised to make the playoffs as the National League’s second wild card team. Those are big stakes for the team, especially one that, if you believe fans, has seemingly been foiled more times by the supernatural than by a lack of talent or execution on the field over the years.

But given that Cubs officials don’t know where the cap is buried (or who did it, for that matter), are those stakes enough to go on a wild curse chase that could create a self-fulfilling prophecy by undermining the confidence of a young team in order to indulge wild superstitions?

YOUR TURN: Should the Cubs try to find the buried White Sox cap in Wrigley Field? Share your thoughts and opinions in the comments section.

» H/T from the Chicago Sun-Times