When it comes to superstitions, no one does it quite like baseball fans. What are Giants fans’ biggest and strangest baseball superstitions? Let’s find out!
Good morning, baseball fans!
With San Francisco Giants pitchers and catchers reporting for duty tomorrow, baseball is officially back. Kind of.
In my opinion, pitchers and catchers reporting is the second holiest day of the baseball season, right behind Opening Day. It’s like Groundhog Day, sure we know it’s pretty much meaningless but it’s about the tradition, dang it. So I want to focus the theme of my questions this week on traditions.
Today I want to hear about your Giants-related superstitions. We all have them. Well, those of us with a passion for baseball and a blind spot in our rational thinking do anyway. So I want to hear them.
One of mine is that if I turn on a game and they score a run, I cannot turn off said game. However, if I turn on the game and they immediately give up a run, I have to turn it off immediately.
The worst one was during the 2010 playoffs. Every game I watched with friends or family ended in a loss, but every game I watched alone was a win. I light-heartedly mentioned this to a former friend of mine at the time while watching one of the World Series games and he promptly kicked me out of his bar. (They lost anyway.)
They don’t have to be so serious, though. Maybe you’ve got a lucky hat, or a cursed jersey. Maybe you have a shrine to McCovey Cove that you pay homage to before every home game.
What is your biggest Giants-related superstition?