Posted on 05/10/2023 2:24:50 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Though he's well-known for haunting opposing team's pitching staffs, Dodgers' star outfielder Mookie Betts has opted for alternative living accommodations during their three-game series against the Brewers after hearing too much about one hotel with a ghostly reputation.
Instead of joining the rest of the team at the Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee, Betts will be staying with some friends at a rented Airbnb until the team heads back on the road come Wednesday.
The luxurious hotel, which ranks as one of the most haunted hotels in the country, opened back in the 1800, and has as much of a storied history of housing Major League Baseball players as it does with haunting guests for the last two centuries.
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As Long as they win I don’t give a dang where anyone stays.
What do you want to bet that the hotel staff helps perpetuate that myth.
There is a long-standing security policy to refrain from publicizing hotels where players are staying. It seems haunted hotels are the exception.
Of course they do. Just like the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO promote it to be the hotel that inspired Steven King to write The Shining. As did The Balsams in Dixville Notch, NH.
Betts has been a Dodger since 2020 so the stories and rumors shouldn’t be new to him. Maybe he can’t shake them and they bother him too much. Without any studies to point to, blacks in America seem to be the most superstitious demographic by far.
At least for the time being.
The cohort rising up from South of the Rio, also particularly superstitious, is going to outdo them on weight of numbers alone.
“What do you want to bet that the hotel staff helps perpetuate that myth.”
What do you want to bet team veterans shook up Betts when he landed with the Dodgers in 2020 and finding him susceptible to the spooky house stories hasn’t let up?
Just the kind of rib athletes play on each other.
You don’t have to be superstitious to believe in ghosts. Charlatans and the credulous aside, it’s pretty well documented that people have had encounters with spectral entities that have not been explained. Some religious people who don’t believe in ghosts attribute this activity to the demonic, but many of these encounters don’t fit with what we know about demons from Divine Revelation and people’s experiences with them.
Hello Mookie...
I know he was named after Mookie Blaylock but I still can never hear that name without thinking of Moshe “Muki” Betser, legendary Israeli commando and commander of the Raid on Entebbe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muki_Betser
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Entebbe
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