Superstitions

Let's see, the Cardinals have taken the series from the Cubs, swept the Pirates and now get ready for the Nationals. During Monday night's game I was wearing a t-shirt and shorts, on Tuesday night I was wearing pants, a long sleeve shirt, a pullover and a jacket. One night 80 degrees, the next night it was 48 degrees, boy that sucked.
So back to the title of this post " Superstitions". On Sunday morning after we had taken 2 games from the Cubs, one of the field ushers came up to me and sarcastically said " Boy it's a little dirty around here, we need to sweep". For those of you not getting the meaning, he was referring to the Cardinals chance to sweep the Cubs and win all 3 games. Well of course we all no what happened the Cardinals lost, no sweep.
Now the next example was yesterday, the game is in the ninth inning and the Cardinals are one out away from Mark Mulder's 100th career victory, a Jason Isringhausen save and a 2 hour and 10 minute game. So the fan next to me tells his buddy out loud how fast the game has gone and they can still make it to wherever they want to go after the game with plenty of time. What happens? Izzy serves up a game-tying home run to strike-out King Jose Hernandez, but luckily Albert won the game in the bottom of the ninth 20 minutes later.
These 2 examples just help to prove that you can't talk about a victory before the game, or how fast the game is going or how the pitcher has a no-hitter going because baseball is full of superstitions that always seem to come true whether you believe in them or not.
I am actually adding to this post a day after I originally published it because last night during the game against the Nationals I noticed that their pitcher was throwing a one-hitter in the sixth inning. Well I looked over to the Post Dispatch photographer Chris Lee and said out loud "hey look Armas is throwing a ONE-HITTER". Chris laughed knowing about this post and sure enough the next Cardinals hitter got a base hit! No more one-hitter for Armas.
If only I could harness this power.