This quote by philosopher and poet George Santayana reminds me of the Oakland Athletics current situation and advice the Athletics’ front office has appeared to ignore over their 48-year history in Oakland.
Baseball is rife with superstitions. Get on a winning streak and you’ll see guys wearing the same socks or jockstraps, or eating the same pregame meal every day. For some, the superstition never ends; it’s one of baseball’s most powerful forces. Never mess with a good thing — that’s an almost universal code. And when you do mess with that good thing, curses come – as with the current curse of La Potencia, and past curses when the Athletics dealt away their power-hitting outfielder, leading to hexes of postseason droughts by the Baseball Gods.