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Jason Kipnis and Mike Napoli made a shrine to Jobu in the Indians locker room

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From Cleveland.com:

“CLEVELAND, Ohio – Jobu is back in the Indians’ locker room.

In the movie Major League, Indians fictional slugger Pedro Cerrano prayed to Jobu, his voodoo statue, so his bats could hit the curveball. 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.””

VODKA, Kip? We tried giving Jobu friggin vodka before rum? How’d you know he didn’t like it, you whiff a couple times that night or something? Ground balls take a couple rough hops? We’re lucky he didn’t burn the whole park to the damn ground. Messing with Jobu’s rum is a delicate dance that few have ever walked away from. To be 11 games over .500 and have a three game lead over the Royals after dumping a couple bottles of Kamchatka at Jobu’s feet AKA slapping him directly in his face, is nothing short of a miracle.

Don’t be surprised if he sends his regrets to the #PartyAtNapolis now.

Here’s a link to the sweater online.

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Normally I wouldn’t advocate spending 65 bucks on something that has such a specific environment in which you can wear it, but hot damn would I look glorious standing at The Corner in this in October.

They also offer a Ricky Vaughn model.

 

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The Indians went a perfect 11-0 at home in June

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So I rather enjoyed June 2016.

An undefeated calendar month at the corner of Carnegie and Ontario has the Tribe’s home record up to 23-12 on the year, their overall record eleven games over .500 and in first place in the AL Central by three games. For context, they posted one of the worst home records in baseball last season of 39-41. This is good.

Corey Kluber and Trevor Bauer threw back-to-back complete games to end the month, allowing one run total between them. Bauer pitched 38.2 innings in June, the most of any Indians starter by almost 10. He allowed 8 earned runs, a .181 opponent batting average and just a single home run. His 38 strikeouts, 0.23 HR/9, 1.86 ERA and 1.5 WAR were all the best among Indians starters. This is good.

The starting pitching staff as a whole led all of Major League baseball in June innings with 143.1, 15 more than the second place Cubs. Their 135 strikeouts, 43 earned runs allowed, 3 complete games, 17.8 K/BB%, .218 opponent batting average, 1.05 WHIP, 2.70 ERA, 3.48 xFIP were all the best in the American League. This is good.

The Indians will close out the first half the week of July 4th with three games against Detroit and four against the Yankees, all at home. We’re 6-0 against Detroit this year, and the Yankees are currently a game below .500 and are 16-21 on the road this season. This is good.

Abraham Almonte can potentially return to the team from his suspension on July 3rd. Buster Olney reported this week that the Indians have told teams they will have some money to blow at the trade deadline. Terry Francona said Roberto Perez, who is recovering from surgery to repair a broken thumb in May, was “probably ahead of schedule” as of last Friday, and has started a throwing program and doing some catching drills. This is good.

The Cleveland Indians are in first place heading into July without Michael Brantley.

This is great.

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Indians fan scales outfield wall to elude police officer

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https://twitter.com/polaris250/status/745788592186785792

https://twitter.com/pronkville08/status/745787387775754240

Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is just a good clean humor right there. A breath of fresh air when it comes to streakers if you ask me.

There’s no political statement being made like that guy at the Cavs game a few weeks back, no nudity, no touching of players. No taser-brandishing by the police officer. This guy simply lost a bet/got a couple thousand retweets/said “watch this” and lived up to his word. That’s what LeBron does, that’s what Clevelanders do, and that’s what this guy did. Lived up to his word. We should all strive to be more like this guy each and every day.

How EXHAUSTED did that cop look though? Worked all day to keep 1.3 million people in line for the Cavs parade, got through seven innings of sitting in the bullpen without anyone bothering him and then this little shithead decides he’s gonna run onto the field. The sigh this guy let out when he saw the streaker sprinting toward center field would’ve made the Big Bad Wolf look like barely a breeze. God bless him for even getting up and trying.

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