Portland, OR - After news of Eryk Williamson’s season ending injury reached the general public, a baffled and distraught Merritt Paulson stated, “What has someone else done to cause this,” as he bemoaned the constantly injured Timbers lineup.

“It’s almost as though we are under some kind of hex or curse,” stated Paulson to The Nutmeg News. “Almost as though the actions of one person have doomed this organization to suffer some kind of horrible fate that repeats itself over and over again.”

Sources within the Timbers front office indicate that Paulson launched an investigation into who could’ve caused such a horrible curse to descend upon the team.

“We have been told to investigate not only the front office but also the fans to see if they may have caused this somehow,” stated one anonymous Timbers employee. “We are putting together a panel to determine whether the Timbers Army caused this hex by hoisting the Ouija board T.I.F.O.”

For his part, Paulson remained steadfast in his belief that this was out of his control as he stated, “we are all working on trying to find out who caused this issue.”

The Nutmeg News will have more on this as it continues to happen.