It was said that touching a Ninetales' tail will bring about a curse which lasts a thousand years. The fans of the Cherrygrove Electabuzz are elated to learn that this one only lasted eighty-six.
Cherrygrove dominated the baseball world around the turn of the last century, winning championship after championship until a game with the now-dominant Goldenrod Giants, then called the Ninetales. The Electabuzz won the last game of the championship series by a single run in a game which saw beanball wars and bench-clearing brawls. The Electabuzz were playing in Goldenrod and the players were more than willing to rub their success in the home team's faces, a championship celebration turned into a riot which even the mascots (live pokemon back then) got involved in. It ended with an Electabuzz grabbing a Ninetales and sending a powerful electric shock through its tail, sending it to the emergency wing of the pokemon center. It would have its revenge.
The owner of the Electabuzz soon ran into financial trouble and was forced to sell off the teams stars. They would rebound in time, at one point losing the Johto Championship in the finals every three years, almost always in the last possible game. The fans of Cherrygrove became known far and wide for their loyalty, following their team through heartbreaking loss after heartbreaking loss, going so far as to hire a string of exorcists to no avail. The Ninetales fans were willing to taunt their fallen rivals, but in time became so horrified by their foe's bad luck that they changed the team's name. And then last year on a walk-off home run the Electabuzz somehow topped the baseball world once again.
Compared to most Ninetales victims, the fans of Cherrygrove got off incredibly easy.
