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Above image from WABC 7, below images from WNBC 4
Leaving no potential curse to chance, the Yankees had the Red Sox jersey (allegedly) buried in cement at the new Yankee Stadium removed with great fanfare in front of press yesterday. The David Ortiz jersey, buried by a Yankee-hating construction worker, was found thanks to a $50,000 excavation in the future behind-home-plate restaurant.
Yankees President Randy Levine said the team was initially going to leave the jersey 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. But then we decided, why reward somebody who had really bad motives and was trying to do a really bad thing?" And $50,000 is a small price to pay instead of future headaches of "The Curse of the Jersey."
As for the construction worker who buried the jersey, Gino Castignoli told the Post, "Anybody with half a brain knows it was all done in fun. I didn't hurt nobody." Still, Yankees Chief Operating Officer Lonn Trost said, "We were in touch with the DA of the Bronx and the ADA and we were discussing, analyzing and understanding whether or not there is criminality involved whether it is mischief or criminal mischief or trespassing or in fact nothing."
The jersey will be donated to the Jimmy Fund, part of the Boston-based Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Levine said, "Hopefully the Jimmy Fund will auction it off and we'll take the act that was a very, very bad act and turn it into something beautiful."
And Levine thanked the Post, for making this their lead story for the past few days--"We want to thank The Post for raising this issue"--which is probably why the Daily News is quiet on the jersey front.
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Removing the jersey didn't help them last night! Ha ha!
this sox fan should be banned from new york state.
"a very, very bad act" ... give me a break. It's a stupid piece of cloth. There are no such things as curses, there's no possible way that this could in any way affect anything that happened at the stadium.
Stories like this remind us that the human race is only a very small step removed from its superstitious caveman ancestors, shrieking in fear and hurling dung at each other every time there's an eclipse.
Hank Steinbrenner is goddamn embarrassing.
That $50K could have gone to A-Rod's salary, for all the good he does the team. I'm with #3 about the superstitious BS. Maybe the reason the Yanks haven't done anything with their ridiculously salaried players is because the players have no reason to be very good. Every year they get paid so much money that they don't have to give a shit about anything.
Still, Yankees Chief Operating Officer Lonn Trost said, "We were in touch with the DA of the Bronx and the ADA and we were discussing, analyzing and understanding whether or not there is criminality invilved whether it is mischief or criminal mischief or trespassing or in fact nothing."
Die in a mother-effing fire you self-important assface.
as a red sox fan, i must say that this is stupid, all around.
the guy who put the shirt there is a douche-bag, should have just kept his mouth shut.. either way, none of this matters.
There is no better use for 50 grand!
Born in NY, love the Yankees, love the rivalry between Yanks and Sox (excuse me, Sux) but shit like this is so ridiculous. Why do fans take this rivalry so damn serious. Hell, most of the players be laughing on the field before the game with each other. Jeter said Ortiz is one of his best friends and that he hates no one on the Redsox (excuse me, Redsux). But the fans are the ones who get way to serious when it comes to this rivalry. A man wearing a NY hat in a bar in Boston gets sent to the hospital because others in the bar didn't like that. This construction guy buried a damn Redsox (excuse me again, Redsux) jersey at Yankee stadium. Get a life people. I wear my Yankees cap happily and do realize these multi-million dollar players don't care who the hell I like. It's just a game people, not life and death.
Damn, I wish they would have left it there!
what is the effin problem with the entire ny media & the yanks management?
first of all, "burying" your opponent (or their jersey in effigy) is a metaphor for, well, BURYING YOUR OPPONENT!!! too bad none of the ny sports illuminati took a lit class, but someone of higher intelligence should explain that to the construction guy who thought that to bury your opponent was good for your opponent...
oh, and the proof? and again, i heard no one in the ny sports establishment mention this, but for most of the 48 hours that that jersey was entombed, the red sox were in last place... once it was unearthed, the yanks moved to that unenviable position..
DUHHHH!!!!
"why reward somebody who had really bad motives and was trying to do a really bad thing"
man, the yankees brass really should pull their heads out of their collective self-important asses
Get a life losers!