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Cleveland Indians erect Jobu shrine from ‘Major League’ film in clubhouse — WARNING GRAPHIC LANGUAGE

Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock 'There's no crying baseball!' The fictional tale of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the movie stars Tom Hanks, Gena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell. Set during World War II, with major leaguers going off to fight, the movie shows women trying to just play ball at a time when females rarely get respect as athletes.

Yo, bartender, Jobu needs a refill.

Looking for a little help with the curve, the Cleveland Indians reunited with Jobu, the voodoo doll from “Major League.”

“We’ve had Jobu there for a little bit,” Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis told Cleveland.com.

“He’s been working. He didn’t like the first airport vodka we left him. So we tried Bacardi (rum) and that seems to be working.

“Right now it’s working so we’re not going to mess with what works.”

In the movie, slugger Pedro Cerrano (Dennis Haysbert) attempts to turn around the Indians fortune with a voodoo doll in the clubhouse, a scraggly chap named named Jobu who likes to smoke cigars and drink rum.

Kipnis and first baseman Mike Napoli erected the shrine in an empty locker, including a sweater with a picture of Jobu and an inscription that reads “It is very bad to drink Jobu’s rum. Very bad,” according to Cleveland.com.

The shrine also features two Jobu statues with mini-bottles of rum.

The Indians are currently riding a six-game winning streak and sit atop the American League Central, three games ahead of the World Series champion Royals.

They’ve also averaged more than six runs a game over that streak, so Jobu’s magic is clearly working.

Major League: Dennis Haysbert Wants No Part Of The Jobu Voodoo Idol In Real Life

You may have noticed that yesterday, April 7, marks the 26th anniversary of the release of Major League. One of most memorable parts of the beloved baseball comedy is Dennis Haysbert's voodoo- loving, no-curveball-hitting Pedro Cerrano. Throughout the film, he prays to the statue of his deity, Jobu, for help healing his sick bats, but in real life, Haysbert wanted no part of that idol.

Talking to Playboy about his role in the zombie apocalypse video game adaptation Dead Rising: Watchtower, the face of Allstate Insurance and the first black President of the United States said, in response to the interviewer suggesting he (Haysbert) should have the Jobu idol:

I believe that that kind of stuff works and voodoo and all of that is a practiced religion and I really don’t need those kinds of symbols. It’s probably better not to have it, for me. That’s my take on it. I’ll just let that be.

You don’t get the impression that Haysbert is necessarily a diehard voodoo believer, but he definitely appears open to the possibility there is something to it and doesn’t want to make trouble where there is none. Maybe it’s more of a precautionary measure, like not taking the lord’s name in vain, not tempting fate by messing with a Ouija board, not running afoul of any withered old gypsy women who might curse your entire bloodline, or not trying to contact spirits on the another plane of existence. We’ve all seen enough horror movies to know that sometimes, in situations like these, safe is certainly better than sorry. Like maybe don’t build your house on the site of a burial ground (looking at you, Poltergeist), and don’t read passages from mysterious ancient texts you just found in an abandoned basement.

Just remember, no matter what, it is very bad to steal Jobu’s rum, very bad. A fact that you’ll remember pitcher Eddie Harris (Chelcie Ross) finds out the hard way. And by hard way, I mean by catching an errant baseball bat to the noggin.

For as long and distinguished as his career has been—even if you don’t specifically know his name right off the top of your head, you immediately recognize his face from dozens of different roles—Dennis Haysbert says it’s Major League that gets quoted the most. And with good reason, his character has more memorable lines of any other on his resume. I can’t see golf club covers without thinking, "hats for bats…keep bats warm," and at random times I still frequently mutter, "Fuck you, Jobu, I do it myself," usually when scolding inanimate objects.

If you want to Jobu a visit for yourself, maybe bring him a shot of rum and a cigar, he can apparently be found at the Louisville Slugger Museum.

Through stunning visuals and captivating narratives, National Geographic photographers and storytellers take us on a journey. They shed light on hidden corners of the world, revealing the extraordinary and often overlooked wonders that exist. From the depths of the ocean to the vastness of the desert, from remote rainforests to bustling cities, every corner of our planet has a story to tell.

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There's a Company Exclusively Selling Licensed Jobu Figurines from Major League

Lifelong chums Scott Suciu and Matt Nebeker, of Phoenix, Ariz., have been obsessed with Major League since childhood. Go figure.

In 2009, they thought it'd be fun to buy a Jobu figurine online. Jobu is of course the voodoo doll of big-hitting Cuban refugee Pedro Cerrano in the 1989 film, (played by Dennis Haysbert, long before the Allstate gig). But to Suciu's and Nebeker's dismay, they couldn't find one. Jobu was nowhere to be found.

They promptly took matters into their own hands and created their own Jobu replica, modeling him out of clay. In casual conversations online, they realized others wanted one too.

Now, with official licensing from the film and a production contract in China, the Jobus are nearly ready for purchase at Jobulifestyle.com. The figurine will sell for $29.99, and Suciu said he's hoping to have them ready to ship by the end of spring training.

"The packaging may be the coolest idea we've had so far," Sucio wrote Scene in an email. "We are making the packaging of the figure to look like Pedro Cerrano's locker, hopefully complete with a shrine, etc. The outside of the locker will have photos of players like Wild Thing, Dorn, Lou Brown, Taylor."

Suciu said that he and Nebeker have already found a pretty robust niche market for the doll — baseball teams looking for luck, wives looking for Christmas gifts for their husbands — and that he's received requests from as far away as Australia.

"I took the prototype to a sports bar recently with some friends," Suciu wrote, "and we had people taking pictures with it, older ladies knowing the name, and guys that were busting each others balls for not knowing who he is."

If you're a Major League fan, or simply hoping for some magic at Progressive Field this year, consider buying the Jobu figurine as an investment in the franchise. (Just don't steal his rum).

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