How can they possibly justify the money spent in digging it up? What law has been broken? I thought this kind of superstitious crap only happened in third world countries. How embarrassing! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! NY Yankees unearth buried Red Sox jersey from new stadium NEW YORK (AP)—A construction worker’s bid to curse the New York Yankees by planting a Boston Red Sox jersey in their new stadium was foiled when the home team removed the offending shirt from its burial spot. After locating the shirt in a service corridor behind what will be a restaurant in the new Yankee Stadium, construction workers jackhammered through the concrete Sunday and pulled it out. The team said it learned that a Red Sox-rooting construction worker had buried a shirt in the new Bronx stadium, which will open next year across the street from the current ballpark, from a report in the New York Post on Friday. Yankees president Randy Levine said team officials at first considered leaving the shirt where it was. “The first thought was, you know, it’s never a good thing to be buried in cement when you’re in New York,” Levine said. “But then we decided, why reward somebody who had really bad motives and was trying to do a really bad thing?”..... ....It took about five hours of drilling Saturday to locate the shirt under 2 feet of concrete, he said..... ....Trost said the Yankees had discussed possible criminal charges against Castignoli with the district attorney’s office. “We will take appropriate action since fortunately we do know the name of the individual,” he said.....
Well, I don't like baseball, or any American sports, they're all rubbish, but.. Ha. It's a man thing. We take our sport seriously. "Yankees Worst Ever Season Blamed on Red Sox Jersey Curse". The future headlines are unthinkable.
Baseball (all sports in America, really) have always been superstitious. That said, they should have left the shirt, dug it up in 20 years and sold it on eBay to collectors.
Baseball (all sports in America, really) have always been superstitious. That said, they should have left the shirt, dug it up in 20 years and sold it to collectors. The Curse-Jersey might have been worth a mint.
If a soccer fan had done the same thing in Europe, do you think the reaction would have been the same?
Sports, like warfare, are among the last surviving vestiges of tribalism. Why should we surprised at the ooga-booga? It's inseparable.
Without a doubt. As hypewaders correctly says it's tribal. There's no way such insulting oneupmanship could be allowed to pass without a response.
We can see from Roman's helpful picture that a witchcraft charge looks a whole lot more fun. I think we should go with that.
David Ortiz has been having a Minnesota year so far - the Yanks should have left that shirt, if they knew whose number was on it.
How many more would watch major sports events and even Olympics if they would just burn someone at the stake every now and then.
HOLY CRAP!!!! At least something good is coming out of it. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120248650648
Like carrying the olympic torch to set someone on fire at the very end. I think you're right, more people would watch it.
