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The Cleveland Indians are currently holding down first place in the American League Central, with a run differential (+62) second to only the Boston Red Sox in the junior circuit entering Wednesday’s action. Injuries and suspensions have not derailed the Indians thus far, but there may be something else in play.
From Cleveland.com:
“It’s unclear what real Indians Jason Kipnis and Mike Napoli do in front of their Jobu shrine, but one has been built in the empty locker empty locker between them in the far corner of the Tribe’s clubhouse.
A sweater with a picture of Jobu and the inscription, “It is very bad to drink Jobu’s rum. Very bad,” hangs in the locker. The also contains two Jobu statues with small bottles of rum placed between them. …
Napoli said his agent gave him one of the Jobu statues and the sweater in spring training. Kipnis recently added another Jobu statue to the shrine, that was recently constructed in the Progressive Field locker room.
“We’ve had Jobu there for a little bit,” said Kipnis, after Tuesday’s 6-0 victory over the Rays. “He’s been working. He didn’t like the first airport vodka we left him. So we tried Bacardi (rum) and that seems to be working.
“Right now it’s working so we’re not going to mess with what works.”
For the uninitiated, Jobu is a voodoo doll owned by the eccentric Pedro Cerrano in the 1989 film Major League. Here’s a clip from the movie involving Jobu:
And as we later learned, it really wasn’t a good idea to tempt fate and mess with Jobu’s rum.
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