Everybody knows about the Curse of the Billy Goat and the Curse of the Bambino. If you don't, you must've spent the last few weeks on whatever planet Jessica Simpson has been visiting.

But you may not have heard about the other two curses that played a role in the outcomes of baseball's League Championship Series.

Illegal Motion is here to explain everything, with the inside scoop on how it all began.

Just click on the curse, and then sit back. Read it. Learn it. Live it.

Randall Polliard is a sports cartoonist for the Seattle Times.