Showing posts with label Superstition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Superstition. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Did "everyone" leave Yankees stadium already? Curse? luck?

These are splits of 2008 season so far for some Yankees pitchers. Of course, other Yankees pitchers pitch better at home, but these numbers below let me wonder why a lot of Yankees pitchers pitch better on the road this season when some of them pitch better at home in their career.

Chien-Ming Wang

Home ERA 5.96 WHIP 1.41 AVG .241

Away ERA 2.12 WHIP 1.22 AVG .259


Andy Pettitte

Home ERA 5.09 WHIP 1.41 AVG .293

Away ERA 3.67 WHIP 1.36 AVG .277


Mike Mussina

Home ERA 3.45 WHIP 1.19 AVG .267

Away ERA 3.34 WHIP 1.23 AVG .295


Mariano Rivera

Home ERA 2.14 WHIP 0.74 AVG .192

Away ERA 0.64 WHIP 0.64 AVG .144


Joba Chamberlin

Home ERA 2.91 WHIP 1.29 AVG .219

Away ERA 2.32 WHIP 1.22 AVG .244


Edwar Ramirez

Home ERA 3.60 WHIP 1.13 AVG .189

Away ERA 3.15 WHIP 1.05 AVG .208


Jose Veras

Home ERA 3.67 WHIP 1.33 AVG .216

Away ERA 3.32 WHIP 1.29 AVG .244


P.S. By the way, I know Yankees win the game today, but is it possible for fans to ask one more thing? Would you please play a little better than you did today? I was really nervous during the game because I was afraid that we would lose this game after having 9-runs lead at one point.

Monday, August 25, 2008

Superstition? You bet

Man, I really need to share this story with you guys. The last game of this series against Orioles started at 3am in the morning on Monday in Sydney. I really can't watch this game live if I want to have enough energy for work at Monday. And then I woke up around 6am for some reasons and decided to turn on my computer in order to check Yankees' score before I headed back to my bed for more sleep.

Guess what? When I turned on my computer, the score was 7-5 which Yankees had a lead and Robertson just got a huge second out of that inning to save a run. At that moment, I told to myself, "See. There is no way I bring bad luck to Yankees every time out, right? Robertson just save a run before my eyes". I decided to stay a little bit longer. As you guys know what happened next, Edwar came in the game and gave up that 2-runs home run to tie the game.

I can't believe my eyes and turned off my computer immediately. I said to myself, "I better not to watch the rest of game in order to give Yankees a chance to win". Guess what? I went to bed and found out Yankees won the game when Cano hit a home run before I left home.

My family just went to Europe for a trip. There is no way my sister is able to watch Yankees game and bring more good luck to balance my bad luck. What do you guys think? Can I watch Yankees' next series against Red Sox? I really want to watch. How about watching ball game, but rooting for Red Sox? I don't know.