Top 10 Most Bizarre Athlete Superstitions

[OSUsushichic]

1. Kevin Rhomberg, Cleveland Indians

Rhomberg played just 41 games in parts of three seasons with the Tribe from 1982-84. But in that short span, the outfielder managed to assert himself as possibly the big leagues? most superstitious player ever. Rhomberg?s most peculiar superstition was that if someone touched him, he had to touch that person back. Although this compulsion was not as much of a liability as it might have been in basketball or football, it still led to some odd situations: if Rhomberg was tagged out while running the bases, he?d wait until the defense was clearing the field at inning?s end to chase down the player who?d touched him.

Rhomberg also refused to make right turns while on the field, because baserunners are always turning left. So if a situation forced him to make a right turn, he?d go to his left and make a full circle to get moving in the correct direction.

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[MililaniBuckeye]

I wonder if Rhomberg is related to Tony Shalhoub...

 

[Gatorubet]

I wonder if Rhomberg is related to Tony Shalhoub...

I never knew the first name was Tony...

 

[Apache]

Superstitions

I know it is totally stupid, but when I was a head football coach in high school and we were on a winning streak, we ate the same team meal 8 times in a row.

Also I only chewed Wrigleys spearmint during the game.

They made me feel better. I never wanted to tempt the fates.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Pedro Cerrano: Bats, they are sick. I cannot hit curveball. Straightball I hit it very much. Curveball, bats are afraid. I ask Jobu to come, take fear from bats. I offer him cigar, rum. He will come.

Eddie Harris: You know you might think about taking Jesus Christ as your savior instead of fooling around with all this stuff.

Jake Taylor: Harris!

Pedro Cerrano: Jesus, I like him very much, but he no help with curveball.

Eddie Harris: You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?

 

[OCBuckWife]

This is just gross.

Moises Alou, New York Mets

Most baseball players wear batting gloves to absorb some of the shock of making contact with the ball and to improve their grip on the bat. A handful eschew gloves in favor of a barehanded approach, though, most famously outfielder Alou. Alou does have a system for avoiding calluses and hardening his skin: he urinates on his hands throughout the season. New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada also employs this superstition to aid in his gloveless approach at the plate. The trick may be more gross than helpful, though: a 2004 article in Slate questioned the value of this superstition since urine contains urea, a key ingredient in moisturizers that actually soften the skin.

Don't shake hands with that guy!

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

This is just gross.





Don't shake hands with that guy!

At a Reds game several years back, well before this story broke, I caught a ball he tossed into the stands after an inning. The ball has since been incinerated. :p

 

[BB73]

I know it is totally stupid, but when I was a head football coach in high school and we were on a winning streak, we ate the same team meal 8 times in a row.

Amazing that high school kids would keep doing that after the second game - eating, shitting, cooking the shit so they can eat "the same meal". :tongue2:

 

[Folanator]

No sex the night before a competition. Never give them my essence....

General Jack D. Ripper: Well, I, uh... I... I... first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
General Jack D. Ripper: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
General Jack D. Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No.
General Jack D. Ripper: But I... I do deny them my essence.

 

[buckiprof]

I wonder if Rhomberg is related to Tony Shalhoub...

I know Rhomberg and he looks more like Shalhoub today, in person, than the picture shows. A quick what is he doing now, Rhomberg and Joe Charboneau own Super Joe's, a baseball training facility in Painesville. Also, Rhomberg is getting into politics. He won the primary Tuesday and come November he will be up for Clerk of Courts.