Baseball players have always been a very superstitious bunch. Whether it's simple things like Wade Boggs eating fried chicken before every game, Turk Wendell jumping over the baselines, or a refusal to change a jock strap during a win streak: baseball players look for anything that might bring them good luck.This however, this isn't something I ever thought I'd read.
Apparently a pair of taxidermied kangaroo testicles is regarded as a good-luck charm by Aussies, like a rabbit's foot (or like me rubbing my bust of Elvis that I bought one late night many years ago at a cheap gift shop on the Canada side of Niagara Falls).What exactly am I supposed to say after reading that? There's no mention in the article of where Mike Hampton is keeping his lucky kangaroo balls, but if I had to put money on it, I'd say they're on the disabled list. (Zing!)
So Braves reliever Phil Stockman, a good bloke if I've ever met one, gave starting pitchers Tim Hudson and Mike Hampton each a pair of kangaroo testicles on a key chain. And told them to rub them before each start.
Hudson's "charm" was hanging in his locker last I checked.
Also, instead of hanging your kangaroo balls in your locker, wouldn't it make more sense to keep them in a pouch? Get it? A pouch. Kangaroo balls. I'll be here all season, folks.
(Thanks, I think, to Walkoff Walk) Sorry, No Photos
