April 11, 2008
Sox fan puts jinx on new Yankee Stadium
In August, a Red Sox fan who is also a construction worker furthered the cause of the Red Sox along. The New York Post reports that in August, he buried a Red Sox shirt in a slab of concrete under the visiting team's locker room.
The aim was to jinx the Yankees' new home. Only now has someone stepped forward. "I don't want to be responsible for sinking the franchise," said a second worker, who witnessed the sabotage. "I respect the stadium." Yes, so much that you mention something seven months later.
(UPDATE: The Yankees have removed the shirt.)
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10 Comments on "Sox fan puts jinx on new Yankee Stadium"
#1
Posted by Eric Haskell, April 11, 2008 1:45 PM
Seems appropriate, since the Yankees will be burying the Red Sox a lot in that stadium.
#2
Posted by Sean O, April 11, 2008 1:47 PM
The funny thing, of course, is that nobody would've known anything if the other guy hadn't stepped forward to tell the world. Either way, this is awesome. Any time you visit the new Mordor and are being taunted by troglodytic Yankees fans, rest assured that there is always a part of the Red Sox right there.
#3
Posted by Sean O, April 11, 2008 2:58 PM
Aww, the Yankees fan discovered puns! That's so adorable, like then my cat stares at himself in the mirror.
Kudos, Yankees fan, kudos! Object permanence is right around the corner.
#5
Posted by Makable Put, April 11, 2008 4:36 PM
And another bit of the Yankees legacy slides away. They're moving out of the only stadium in which they've ever had any success, they haven't won this century and now they have Red Sox gear in the foundation of their building?
#7
Posted by Brent Nycz, April 11, 2008 5:12 PM
The Yankees organization dismisses it as untrue:
"The ever creative Post reported today that some Boston fan threw a Red Sox t-shirt into the concrete at the New Stadium. Somehow, this would curse the place. Sure thing.
Anyway, the Yankees say it’s not true and they actually had Howard Rubenstein’s office release a statement.
“We noticed that the NY Post wrote a fun and interesting story about a t-shirt today — but it never happened,” it said. “Yankee fans know that burying something in concrete in the basement is never a good thing. Memo to the Post: You’re 10 days late for April Fool’s Day.”"
As well, a comment on WasWatching confirmed that it was a old story that was a prank, not fact.
Yankees organization statement > NY Post
#8
Posted by Fully Manny, April 11, 2008 5:52 PM
I doubt the Yankees organization would actually know whether or not a shirt was in the concrete. But what the heck is “Yankee fans know that burying something in concrete in the basement is never a good thing" supposed to mean? Is that some kind of mob reference?
#9
Posted by Brent Nycz, April 11, 2008 7:29 PM
... when you are working on a project on a construction site, you are barely, if ever, alone. If you do something like that, you have to get it through a couple of guys, so it would have to be a collaborative effort. You really think a guy can just sneak in a shirt while 5 to 10 guys are working around him?
And do you think the Yankees organization isn't heavily supervising the construction of the Stadium?
#10
Posted by Fully Manny, April 11, 2008 7:53 PM
Yeah, hence why there were multiple workers collaborating the story. What, you think George himself sits and watches the workers? Sure, they're supervising the building, but as someone who's worked in construction, the higher ups don't "really" know what's going on.
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