In this week’s ”Point After” column for Sports Illustrated, which as usual is on the last page of the issue, columnist Phil Taylor wrote “That Voodoo That You Do” and he discusses various good luck tactics throughout the sports world. 

In the column, Taylor gives a shout out to Hot Foot and my lucky Mets tube socks.  Taylor writes:

Aromatically speaking, that’s far preferable to blogger Andrew Beaton’s attempt to stop the Mets’ second straight September slide. After watching his team drop consecutive games to the Nationals, Beaton announced on hotfootblog.com that he was donning his Mets tube socks, which he said “contain the mystical power and the ability to give the Mets a win.” On Sunday, Milwaukee edged New York for the NL wild card, proving that when it comes to crusty talismans, a pie trumps a pair of old socks.

The article also discusses many other humorous luck tactics, in addition to discussing the magic number fiasco that we all witnessed at Mets Blog, where as Taylor writes, “some of the site’s visitors were so enraged, you would have thought it was Cerrone himself who had come out of the bullpen to blow all those leads.”

Despite the Mets collapse this season, the tube socks ended up with a record of 3-0.  Friends have already criticized me for failing to wear them on the final day of the season, but the lucky Mets tube socks didn’t summon me and forcing them upon my feet would be sacrilegious. 

I think he misinterprets the holy footwear by calling it voodoo, but I’m not one to be picky over words, so I digress.