tony
04-14-2008, 11:21 AM
I don't think that there is any question that our baseball team is suffering from some really bad mojo. Seriously, the no-hitter loss? The 17 inning defeat? What next: a plague of frogs and rain of blood?
For ages and ages, cultures have tried to deal with this kind of thing in a myriad of ways. For example, if a Viking captain had bad weather luck, his crew might push him overboard (or so it has been said). In the Bible, the ancient Hebrews transferred their bad mojo to a goat and set it into a wilderness. In fact, a central thesis to a book called the Golden Bough is that ALL religions and mythologies have this common thread (I'm pretty sure that this thesis has been kicked to pieces, but there is no disputing that the losing of Bad Mojo is a huge deal to a lot of belief systems).
Pilgrimages, sacrifices, blessings, penances, clapping, dancing, fireworks, love-making (yep), etc - they've all been tried by other folks with mixed results.
Anyway, there is no doubt that our baseball team is laboring under a dark cloud. So how can we get rid of the baseball team's bad mojo?
The only thing I've come up with so far is getting a Bison baseball cap blessed by the Pope when he comes to the US. Any other ideas? This case is so bad that we might have to try multiple remedies.
For ages and ages, cultures have tried to deal with this kind of thing in a myriad of ways. For example, if a Viking captain had bad weather luck, his crew might push him overboard (or so it has been said). In the Bible, the ancient Hebrews transferred their bad mojo to a goat and set it into a wilderness. In fact, a central thesis to a book called the Golden Bough is that ALL religions and mythologies have this common thread (I'm pretty sure that this thesis has been kicked to pieces, but there is no disputing that the losing of Bad Mojo is a huge deal to a lot of belief systems).
Pilgrimages, sacrifices, blessings, penances, clapping, dancing, fireworks, love-making (yep), etc - they've all been tried by other folks with mixed results.
Anyway, there is no doubt that our baseball team is laboring under a dark cloud. So how can we get rid of the baseball team's bad mojo?
The only thing I've come up with so far is getting a Bison baseball cap blessed by the Pope when he comes to the US. Any other ideas? This case is so bad that we might have to try multiple remedies.