Has SI jinx ruined Ubaldos try for Cy?
The good news: Ubaldo Jimenez made the cover of Sports Illustrated. The bad news: Ubaldo Jimenez made the cover of Sports Illustrated. Please understand, I’m not a particularly superstitious man. That would be Todd Helton, who once shaved his beard in the middle of a game in an effort to escape a batting slump. But I must admit this SI cover jinx has got me a little concerned. I’m rooting for Ubaldo — one of the nicest, most unassuming athletes I’ve ever covered — to win the Cy Young Award. The Rockies’ right-hander is well on his way, assuming the SI cover isn’t the kiss of death it’s purported the be. So I did a little investigating to see how much danger Mr. Jimenez is in. In 2002, Sports Illustrated writer Alexander Wolff penned a fascinating story about the curse. Appropriately, the cover featured a black cat. Wolff’s conclusion: “In investigating virtually all of SI’s 2,456 covers, we found 913 “jinxes” — a demonstrable misfortune or decline in performance following a cover appea
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