Perhaps no sport is more historically entwined with superstition than baseball. Rites of the game have spawned everything from curses of the Bambino and a Billy Goat to not discussing a no-hitter in progress to Lorenzo Cain fidgeting with his batting gloves between every … single … pitch.
This phenomenon is most likely what Yogi Berra was referring to when he said “90 percent of the game is half-mental.”
Good times mean clinging to the most mundane of routines, whether it’s the route to the stadium or choice of pregame meal or any number of quirky habits that only matter if you decide they do.