Don't Forget to Rub Your Kangaroo Testicles

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).

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.

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!)

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)