Do you have any superstitions/routines/etc... before/during/after a game?

 

I know for the 2003 NLCS Game 6 I played the song... This is the Night - by Clay Aiken before th 8th inning and after that (Hasn't happened since WS win) I played that song before every playoff game. It worked .

 

Lets hear yours?

Even the new server wouldn't be able to hold a list of the superstitious things I do or have done for the Marlins.

Do you have any superstitions/routines/etc... before/during/after a game?

 

I know for the 2003 NLCS Game 6 I played the song... This is the Night - by Clay Aiken before th 8th inning and after that (Hasn't happened since WS win) I played that song before every playoff game. It worked .

 

Lets hear yours?

 

ahahahahahahaha clay aiken

< not a very superstitious guy

 

I personally think superstition is a little ridiculous. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

 

edit: Then again, you could consider my temporary avatar and sig a superstitious act :mischief

 

Anything to make the Mets lose!

I used to be extremely superstitious but I've toned it down because I would get real paranoid and so i just convinced myself that the team I root for's success is not determined by what seat I sit in or what hand the remote is in or how many claps I do after each play.

 

BUT...

 

I still have superstitions from time to time. I follow all of the baseball unwritten superstitions like if a pitcher is throwing a no-hitter I will stay in the same seat and won't tell anybody. Also I like to do a rally cap every now and then, especially when at a ballgame.

Well usually i walk around the house with a Marlins thong, twenty minutes before every road game.

I usually pray if a game is important, lol, but that is just to comfort me for the most part.

Well usually i walk around the house with a Marlins thong, twenty minutes before every road game.

 

Wow, you must have more faith than me. I normally have to wear the bra AND thong combo.

During the World series in 1997 and throughout the playoffs in 2003 i would flap my arms like an angel just like in the movie Angels in the outfield. I did it throughout out the whole 8th inning in Game 6 in Chicago when we came from behind scoring 5 runs and ended up winning the game also in game 7 of the 1997 world series when Renteria got the game winning single up the middle. Good times good times!

When I was at Game 7 of the 1997 series, I, for no real reason, buttoned and unbuttoned the top button of the Bonilla jersey I was wearing as Bonilla was batting. He hit a home run. For every batter from then on (only for that day) I would button and unbutton the jersey before each pitch.

If the team is slumping, I'll "rally nap" the game...

 

yes, I'll sleep through the game... and the thing is... we've won every game I've rally napped... so, consider me the losing streak breaker...

 

Also, I wear my new (already beaten up/broken in) Marlins hat during the games

 

Not much else

For those of you around in 2003, you had to have remembered the "Power of the Krispy Kreme!"

 

Back then, I would go to the drive-thru of the Krispy Kreme in Boynton Beach to pick-up two glazed donuts. Always after the donuts were in my car, the Fish rallied and got runs in the NLCS (including Game 7 when I was sitting in the drive-thru when they pulled ahead for good).

When they win, I wear the same underwear until they lose.

I had the funniest routines and they were all in 2003. Some on the board might remember them, esp. the first one.

 

1. I have a signed Jeff Conine baseball card. Whenever Niner would bat, I would grab the card and rub it. I remember the first time I did it, he had homered, so I kept doing it after that.

 

2. I would listen to a lot of music to get myself pumped. I'd listen to "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey, "Tonight Tonight" by Smashing Pumpkins, and some other songs here and there. Those two were the main ones though.

 

I may be odd, but they worked, so...

 

I don't do anything now though.

Well in 2003 my family kept a ball from the 1997 World Series out on the living room table for the entire playoffs.