The Jinx Strikes Again?

The Sports Illustrated cover jinx has struck again – sort of.

This time the victim is Kansas City Royals’ pitcher Zach Greinke, who in case you’ve forgotten came out of nowhere last year to earn a starting spot in our FITS Fartknockers’ fantasy rotation.

Wow … judging from the silence (and lack of traffic on this post) you obviously had forgotten that.

Here’s a refresher.

Anyway, as amazing as Greinke’s start was last season – he’s blowing the doors off the league this year.

In fact, Greinke went 43 innings without giving up a single earned run – at least until he appeared on the cover of SI.

Then he promptly went out and gave up an earned run in the first inning against the Toronto Blue Jays.

Of course, the big hurler is still 5-0 with a ridonkulous 0.50 ERA, which in case you’re unfamiliar with baseball is mind-bogglingly good.

Plus, and let’s be honest, here – is the fact that Greinke gave up an earned run really compelling evidence of the SI cover jinx?

Seriously, it’s not like he keeled over, or a shark leap out of the stands and chew his right arm off.

Hell, he went on to record the win over the Blue Jays, didn’t he?

We love the jinx, don’t get us wrong, but to say Greinke has succumbed to it already is pushing it …

We’ll see what he does next time out …

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