10 of baseball’s greatest fan superstitions, ranked by effectiveness – FOXSports.com

It depends on who’s wearing them. We’re not going to be like those awful magazines and smug websites that try and impose their stupid style commandments upon the world and then judge those who deign disobey their decrees. You know what I’m talking about – the folks who say men can’t wear shorts (especially of the cargo variety), jerseys, shoes without socks, etc. Nonsense. Hey, you do you, fellow men of America. Wear what you want provided you’re not eating barefoot as a restaurant. The constant sense of fashion superiority is maddening. You know what looks stupid? A grown man wearing Air Jordans (and I assume most of the people writing these stories own a pair). But you don’t see me judging.

Where were we. Yes, rally caps. It’s a Little League fashion. There was nothing cooler than being on the bench in the bottom of the 6th with your team down a run and turning your pre-trucker hat trucker hat inside out, backward and folded like a napkin at a wedding. That was great. Kids are more than welcome to do that at a game. And if adults want to do it, cool. No judging. But, let’s be honest; in public, it looks a little dumb. Keep your superstitions to yourself in public. At home, you can design your hat like you’re I.M. Pei, all to your heart’s content. Everything is game behind the privacy of your own doors, including the superstition of one guy I know who basically plays strip poker during Cubs games, except there’s no cards or opponents, he just steadily strips during the game until he’s in his drawers by the fourth quarter. Again, this is a no-no with company. Alone? Do it up.

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