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

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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Jason Kipnis unknowingly bumped into Ken Griffey Jr. in Seattle, got called for the charge

Oh no, Kip.

I don’t even care who your favorite team or player was as a kid…if you grew up in the 90s as a baseball fan, missing an opportunity to meet Junior because you got called for the offensive foul is soul crushing.

Set your feet, kids. Set your feet.

Who are we thinking the teammates were, standing behind him pointing and laughing? Frankie has gotta be a heavy favorite since there’s laughing involved and him and Kip are best friends in my brain. Naquin too, because he did grow up in the 90s and its just basic science that every left handed outfielder ages 20-30 wanted to be Junior at some point. And probably Juan Uribe, pretty sure he’d recognize The Kid from when he used to babysit him.

Jason Kipnis put Ketchup on its ass during the hot dog race last night

 

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Don’t you dare bring that shit up in here Ketchup. Don’t even think about it. Take your weak ass runny condiment inside your fart-noise making squeeze bottle and find another race to run in. Cause this is Kip’s domain. What he says, goes. Ketchup might do it for folks in Detroit or Pittsburgh or Oakland, but if you ever show your garbage-spewing spout around these parts again, Kip will find you. And the age old question of “is Ketchup flammable?” will finally be answered.

Don’t be surprised to see Relish make his debut tonight.

ALL DAY SON. ALL DAY.

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