"I don't vibrate at that frequency,'' Maddon said.
Neither, it seems, does his team. It is now loaded with enough talented young players to ward off superstitions.
Well, Maddon does have his lucky socks, but that's a story for another day.
The one that matters now is that his team was not shaken by being shut out by the storied Cardinals in the National Leage Division Series opener, firing back with a 6-3 victory fueled by Jorge Soler and a bunch of bunts and well-placed choppers channeled from Maddon's talks with the late Don Zimmer during his remarkable nine-year run with the Rays.