Let's be candid and objective.
The last international Ju-Ju worked like a charm. For a while.
We were 6-1 or 6-2 under its spell.
Then we hit Oakland. And now LA or Anaheim or Venice Beach, wherever.
The team is at .500 or just below the Ju-Ju call-out. What kind of positive impact is that? I can't be ruining a tv, a radio, and the flower garden around our house for a .500 result. Neither can you, if you are honest.
The latest international Ju-Ju call, and its implementation,was a bit like QE3, the Fed's latest attempt to prop up and jump start the economy. QE1 And QE2 lasted longer, had more impact and actually started things rolling.
QE3 was too small, too late, and , incrementally, had a minimal and diminishing impact relative to the cost ( though wait and see what happens when there are no more Q's from the Fed).
But that is another tale.
Our all out intervention yielded no progress, no gain, and no energy. Unless we are to believe that .500 prevented .200.
I haven't done the research yet, but I think Ju-Ju only matters (and works) when a team is talented and has a chance to win.
Did anyone read our line-up yesterday?
I thought I was watching the Charleston River Dogs.
Next time our leader calls for an intervention, let's make it with pizza and beer.
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The accuracy and immediacy of Duque's JuJu intervention gave the Yanks an amazing boost. But the players and manager must then sustain that boost. It's a matter of quantum physics, if I understand Duque's book. JuJu alone cannot make a world champion. Personally I prefer the maladiction or "maladizione", which I have placed upon those with whom I have had professional differences.
Whoops. Spelling error. Maladiction is a heavy metal band. The curse is "malediction". Wow. Spell it wrong and it might rebound. Same thing with "maladizione". It's maledizione, like maledetto. These details are important in case the Red Sox make the playoffs.
What JuJu can do is give the bat or ball a little nudge one direction or another. a pitch goes more into our guy's wheelhouse. a 10 bouncer finds a hole. that kind of stuff. JuJu could not make me get a hit, for example, and our players seem too pathetic for JuJu's marginal influence to be decisive.
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