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.
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.
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.
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