Curse of the Bambino Red Sox were there. Yankee fans also taunted the Red Sox with signs saying "1918!", "CURSE OF THE BAMBINO", pictures of Babe Ruth, and wearing "1918!" T-shirts each time they were at the Stadium. Before Ruth left Boston, the Red Sox had won five of the first fifteen World Series, with Ruth pitching for the and championship teams (he was with the Sox for the 1915 World Series but the manager used him only once, as a pinch-hitter, and he did not pitch). The Yankees had not played in any World Series up to that time. In the 84 years
Team Curse on 2 November 2013, Curse Academy were knocked out by Napkins in Disguise in the last round, narrowly missing out on a seed. The team would be knocked out in the group stage of the second qualifier later that month, and so failed to qualify for the Promotion Tournament. On 31 December, OneBadBrad announced that he had left Curse Academy, and on 6 January 2014, Tsatsulow was replaced by Nicolas "Gleebglarbu" Haddad, and Patrick "Titours" Lefort also joined. Gleebglarbu left the team to join Cloud9 Tempest two weeks later on 21 January, and at some point before the end of