Ive played baseball my entire life and i've even written an essay on baseballs superstitions. With that said, i have NEVER had one. I guess that's why i didn't think twice before making this thread.
2 questions. How many of you ball players have been on the field for a no hitter and at what level where you playing?
cmon guys.. it is ok for fans to talk about it before. It is one thing to be playing and not mention it to the pitcher and quite another to talk about it before when you have no impact whatsoever..
When I was in Senior League a kid on my team threw like 4 or 5 perfect games one year. In high school I actually sort of cost a kid a no hitter. There were some kids out for some reason I don't recall, and as a result I got one of my maybe 3 games of experience in the outfield. I'm NOT an outfielder, seeing as I'm far too slow. Anyway, in the 7th, there was a ball hit down the line a bit in right, in between a liner and a real fly ball. My lack of range combined with a bad jump because I never played outfield regularly led to it dropping in for a hit. I didn't feel too bad though because the kid was a dick and had blown a save in a game I started the day before.
Spoken like someone who doesn't believe in the superstition (which I completely agree with, by the way). I think the point is not that you'll spook the pitcher, but rather that the baseball gods will rain wrath down on you.
:lol: I'm happy for you. I really am. You really think someone posting a thread jinxes a no-no? If that were the case, no hitters would NEVER happen. Why? Because I can guarantee that every time someone gets to the 9th with a no hitter, someone somewhere is posting a thread on a messageboard.
No, I don't really think that, but I do think people shouldn't do it. Maybe it's just because I was always taught that you NEVER mention a no hitter until it's over. I see it more as rude than anything I guess, for lack of a better word.
That's my position too. (I think a lot of my superstitious nature comes from being italian.) You just don't do it. They were actually talking about Wade Boggs superstitions on the Yankees broadcast the other day. How some guys would just screw with his pre-game rituals, and it would drive him out of his mind. That's how I was. I had all sorts of different rituals at any given time.
Baseball is a game of traditions and not talking about a no-no is one of them. I played but was never involved in a perfect game or a no-no. As a Met fan I can only hope to see our first. I watched every out of Goodens one hitter in 1984 and his entire No hitter for the Yankees.
You can have codes within the game not to say anything (which has been around baseball forever)*, but I hate to tell you this; you can't control the entire world, much less the Internet. Someone who mentions it is trying to give a heads-up to anyone who wants to tune in to an exciting event. The only way my posting about an event should ever make a difference to you would be if you think I have some special power to control baseball games. Otherwise, I think it's highly irrelevant, given that every no-hitter in the last 5 years has had a thread started about it before it concluded. *- when I played, I obviously never brought it up. When you're involved in a game, you learn when to talk and when to keep your mouth shut. But now I'm a fan.
Can't believe you guys are actually arguing about this. I like to pretend I'm superstitious, if only to mock the ordeal. There is no logical explanation to be critical of a fan that is 3000 miles away from the action and claim that his "heads up" actually cost a player a no-hitter. It's a great story, but the world doesn't really work that way.
someone should probably tell Schilling who cost him his no-hitter. He'll probably be pretty pissed and want revenge. Obviously, Lugo and Stewart had nothing to do with it.
This is a classic example of selective retention. I'm sure in all of the no hitters since the internet has been like a community, there have been dozens of online references to that potential no hitter before it is complete, and in verbal forms throughout baseball history. But yet, people only choose to remember the times in which that sort of behavior worked against the subject at hand, and against the desired result to be achieved.
Hey, no one is arguing whether it's logical or not. Just how they approach it. I'm not arguing, and I don't think Yis or devil are either. *shrug* I'm sure we can find much better topics to argue about. :beer:
