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Originally Posted by JohnHoward
That's almost certainly the jinx chirp. Good on you for recognizing that Venters was jinxed and putting in Sanchez, but then the next chirp re-jinxed him. I would start a spreadsheet and track the chirps, unless you think that might be a double-jinx.
By the way, when I watch the Braves I hear a similar sound every time they show an intense close-up of Fredi Gonzalez trying to figure out what's happening in the game, but it sounds more like "derp" than "chirp".
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Funny, but the chirp does occur during games, others have heard it. I don't know WHY it occurs (blip in the soundtrack?) but I do intend to pay attention.
As for being "jinxed," I didn't mean BY the chirp. Or that it's even signal that something bad is about to happen to you. (I said "ridiculous" things seem to happen, but that isn't necessarily one-sided.)
Mostly, once a guy has given up a couple of baserunners in my experience -- especially if you have already gone out with a "visit the mound" and settled him down once -- you'd better get him out of there.
If they're roping him, that's one thing. You need a new pitcher anyway. But if they get on base by bleeders, bloopers, two-strike hit-by-pitches, whatever, then I figure it just ain't his day -- the jinx.
Tampa loaded the bases in just such fashion in the ninth, but after a mound visit (coincidence?) following the wild pitch, he got out of it. When it started again in the 10th -- a seeing-eye single to lead off the inning, a mound visit prior to two straight dominant outs on six pitches, then an odd scratch single, I'm thinking about a new pitcher even if the next three hitters
aren't right-handed.
So now the question is, have
you heard the chirp?