Yankees dig up Red Sox Jersey buried in cement

[Auggie]

The New York Times, 4-14-08:

With dust swirling around them on Sunday afternoon, Frank Gramarossa and Rich Corrado extracted a Red Sox jersey that a construction worker had buried at the site of the new Yankee Stadium. After workers used jackhammers to break through about two and a half feet of concrete, Gramarossa and Corrado pulled out a dusty, torn David Ortiz jersey.

Randy Levine, the Yankees’ president, and Lonn Trost, the team’s chief operating officer, presided over what Levine called an “excavation ceremony.” The New York Post had reported Friday that a Red Sox-rooting construction worker hoping to curse the Yankees’ new stadium had buried a Red Sox jersey at the site last week.

But Levine said the team knew the location that was initially reported was inaccurate, because workers did not pour concrete in that area on the day the jersey was said to have been added to the mix. On Saturday morning, the Yankees got a tip from two other construction workers on the location of the jersey.

“Two thoughts occurred to us,” Levine said. “One is that it’s never a good thing to be buried in cement in New York, so we thought about just pouring more cement on it.”


Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/sports/baseball/14jersey.html?em&ex=1208232000&en=391a2bfe65986ad1&ei=5087%0A

[rcsl1998]

1. Big Papi Batting .070 - Freed From Yankee Stadium Curse By The Paranoid Yankees!!!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MaineDem]

2. He had a couple hits last night

Maybe there was something to that curse. ;)

[Forkboy]

3. I don't know if that's funny or sad.

Were they really that worried? :crazy:

[rinsd]

5. Not worried, more like pissed.

What does makes me laugh is this jackhole couldn't wait to brag about it before the Stadium was finished and they would have had no idea where it was. Christ even Jason Giambi said as much.

On the superstitious scale I rate this a 5, with a 1 crossing one's fingers during a veteran pitcher's outing and a 9 being those guys who organized the salvage mission for Babe Ruth's piano.

[Auggie]

6. Yeah, but one bad year or a series of unfortunate events could start some

serious head issues, couldn't it? Superstitions in baseball are as old as baseball. I don't blame the Yankees. They did the right thing.

[rinsd]

8. I bet Big Papi was glad to see it come out.

We saw the same thing with Abreu last year. Suddenly this .300 hitting machine with a great eye could not hit for shit, then he would go on a month long tear.

[rcsl1998]

7. Clowns!

[BOSSHOG]

4. Such curses are successful

The SuperDome was built atop a Voodoo graveyard in 1967 and then a bunch of Saints moved in. Marie Laveau was not amused.

[Jack Rabbit]

9. Will Steinbrenner lay it on the altar at moonrise?

Just wondering?

[joeybee12]

10. Someone told me Hank Steinbrenner was behind the whole charade...

...that he had the jersey buried just so he could get publicity by digging it up. Anyone else been hearing this. Are we talking Jersey-gate?

[northzax]

11. in case anyone's wondering

the Jersey is on eBay, the Yanks donated it to the Jimmy Fund in Boston. you get the jersey, a new Ortiz jersey, two tickets to a game where they will present the jersey at Fenway and a yankees tshirt. if only you could get Ortiz to sign both jerseys!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120248650648&tr=y&auid=3582588

as of right this instant, bids at $36,300 (and you have to be pre-qualified, so it's a real bid, you figure)