The hat dance...

Ok, most baseball fans and players develop superstions of some sort. I have several and one involves the cap I'm wearing at Dodd.
The cap on the left is a brand new Connecticut Tigers cap made by New Era. It is sold as a batting practice cap, it has a stretch head ban and it seems to be the choice of many fans over the traditional fitted game cap with the white lettered Old English "C."
The Defenders cap on the right is one the club gave away in 2008 if you signed up for a voucher plan. It's been worn heavily ever since; three baseball seasons at Dodd, the outdoor stuff I do, etc., etc.. I do my daily workouts with it on now (another post for another time). It's dirty, sweat stained and disgusting and it's been like that for some time now. Somehow my wife puts up with me wearing it as long as I'm not with her. This is in constrast to her stand on the Navigators cap I'm pictured wearing on my blog profile at the top of this page. That one, equally disgusting as the Defenders one, is on permant hiatus in the back of the closet.
Anyway I saw 20 Tigers games this past season. They were 13-7 in those games. 11 of those wins came with the Defs cap on. The one game I worn the Tigers cap, and this was during the playoff run, they lost. I quickly changed caps believing I was the cause for the loss and with the Defs cap on, they won two of the next 3 games.
Anyway my plan is to wear the Tigers cap for the first 5 games or so in 2011 and we'll see howthe cap is doing in terms of wins and losses. Hope they win.. I do like the way it looks...
Anyone care to share some ballpark superstitions? Meanwhile enjoy some Stevie Wonder...