Joba Chamberlain's ritual---Kepner, NY Times

CLEVELAND, Aug. 10 — "Joba Chamberlain has a ritual before his first pitch of a game. He stands behind the mound, his back to the catcher, his glove on the grass, his hat in his hand and his head bowed. Then he points to the sky, climbs up the dirt slope and starts to terrorize opposing hitters."

• Kepner told Charley Steiner on XM the other day the origins of the name "Joba." It apparently stems from a young relative's inability to pronounce the name "Joshua," coming out with "Joba" instead. I'm not sure who Joshua actually was, Kepner said he wrote about it in his blog.

Item from NY Times article by Tyler Kepner, 8/11/07, "Yanks of Future Offer Help in Present."

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