I played baseball my whole life all the way through high school. I'd say I was just as superstitious as any baseball player out there. I've noticed so many players on the Red Sox and Cardianls have dirty helmets, what's up with that. I imagine its because of some superstition they have about their helmets. The funniest is with Larry Walker. He has not even been with the Cardinals for three months and his helmets alrady look like they're ten years old. What the heck did he do to them? Another funny thing, when you think about it is Trot Nixon's hat. He's had that old dirty hat (it looks like he spilled baby powder all over it) for a while now. And he obviously sent his hat off to get the World Series logo stitched on the side of it, while I'm sure most all of his teammates just got new hats with the logo on it. I'm just glad Jason Varitek isn't too partial to his pants after game two.
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Some of the Red Sox hitters keep pine tar on their helmets because they obviously aren't allowed to go to the on deck circle to put more on the bat in between pitches. They made a big deal about this earlier in the year but I havn't heard anything since.
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Some of the Red Sox hitters keep pine tar on their helmets because they obviously aren't allowed to go to the on deck circle to put more on the bat in between pitches. They made a big deal about this earlier in the year but I havn't heard anything since.
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Yeah, there's a few odd superstitions in baseball. I forgot the guys name, but whenever someone touched him, he had to touch the person back.Comment
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Yeah, there's a few odd superstitions in baseball. I forgot the guys name, but whenever someone touched him, he had to touch the person back.Comment
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Nope, it's this one guy who one time the team tried to play a prank on him and a guy tagged him and ran, the player ended up chasing after the guy and tried climbing over a wall and I think he injured himself... not sure. But it was some ridiculous story.Originally posted by camulosMike Piazza?
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Nope, it's this one guy who one time the team tried to play a prank on him and a guy tagged him and ran, the player ended up chasing after the guy and tried climbing over a wall and I think he injured himself... not sure. But it was some ridiculous story.Originally posted by camulosMike Piazza?Comment
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Turk Wendell. Now that guy was superstitiuos. Dude used to check black licorice during the game and had to brush his teeth in between every single inning. He also drew something on the back of the mound and had to point to his CF'er before starting an inning. I think he also jumped over the chalk line, but a lot of guys do that.Comment
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Turk Wendell. Now that guy was superstitiuos. Dude used to check black licorice during the game and had to brush his teeth in between every single inning. He also drew something on the back of the mound and had to point to his CF'er before starting an inning. I think he also jumped over the chalk line, but a lot of guys do that.Comment
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Let's not forget some of the superstitions that cause games to last 5 hours. Thanks you Nomar Garciaparra."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Let's not forget some of the superstitions that cause games to last 5 hours. Thanks you Nomar Garciaparra."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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