Posted on 04/14/2008 3:57:24 AM PDT by Perdogg
A construction worker's bid to curse the New York Yankees by planting a Boston Red Sox jersey in their new stadium was foiled Sunday 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.
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And yet A-Rod is still on their team.
Meanwhile, in related news, several locks of hair and packets of fingernail clippings were recovered from the construction site. An investigaion is pending.
Just kidding!
If Yankee management had any brains, they would have left the jersey there and installed a pay toilet on the spot. Last laugh and all that...
MVP A-Rod....and well deserved last year. what planet are you on?
The Yankees may want to bury their 2008 team there...
MVP A-Rod....and well deserved last year. what planet are you on?
You are right, that .200 batting average when it really matters means nothing. I hope the Skankees keep A-Fraud.
Removing this stupid shirt cost $50,000.00. That is an incredible waste of money over a stupid shirt.
I am waiting for the next person yo claim they reburied the corpse of Jimmy Hoffa there.
LOL
I guess they haven't found the other fifteen shirts yet...
What “appropriate action” will they take? Charging the guy with attempted curse starting?
What a waste of a good shirt...
exactly
are the Yankees believing in witchcraft or voodoo to think a lousy unseen jersey could or would have any meaning or effect on their W/L ???
stupid is as stupid does
The shirt was wasted after the embroiderist got to it...
superstitious fools
15 for 75 in the post-season since the Bronx bombed in 2004 has been pretty amusing. He’s been a cute regular season player though.
This story is about a curse, not about talent. And so far how many world series have the Yankees, the most talented team in baseball, been to with A-Rod?
Maybe so, but having something like that buried in a slab of concrete is a lawsuit waiting to happen years down the road. The current Yankee Stadium had a number of problems related to the original construction that didn't become obvious until a couple of decades later (some folks might remember the incident a few years ago when a large chunk of concrete or structural steel fell off the bottom of the upper deck or mezzanine). So you can be damn sure that any irregularities in the construction process for the current stadium -- including something as seemingly innocuous as a shirt buried in concrete -- had to be acted upon.
You know, I hadn’t thought of that. If anything, it gives them an excuse to dig it up. I would bet on it that digging it up had more to do with superstition than structural concerns.;^)
No. Just next time the “labor wagon” goes to Home Depot, they won’t pick him.
It comes out of the contractor’s pocket.
You don’t think the Gambino backed union was going to pay for it?
I guess that is good. I have to laugh though. If you ever go to these building sites, they bury everything but the kitchen sink, well, one of those may be in there too.
I propose they tear the whole place up and see what lies beneath!
LOL
Bottom line, the Yankees don’t make the playoffs last year with David Wright, Miguel Cabera or Mike Lowell at third. None of them hit 50 homers, and all of them went fishing in October. Every time I hear somebody who doesn’t have 3 MVPs get on Arod, it just sounds like jealousy to me.
Again, the point I was trying to get across had zero to do with A-Rod and 100% to do with stupid superstitions. I was being facetious.
Mike Lowell at third,and all of them went fishing in
October.
Really? Even the Mike Lowell that won the World Series MVP? He must be better than I thought since he won the WS MVP while at home fishing.
No I am not jealous of someone that pulls bush league plays like A-Fraud did during the playoffs of 06 and at Toronto. On the plus side he is being implicated with steriod use.
Seriously, you do sound jealous. When he retires, the only debate among sober students of the game will be whether Rodriguez was in fact the greatest player of all time, and anybody who suggests otherwise is either jealous or blinded by team loyalty. Either way, you sound like an ass, which is probably why you're so eager to believe anything that comes out of Jose Canseco's mouth. Seek help.
Playoff stats are overrated. It is impossible to draw a vaild conclusion from such a limited sample. Is David Ortiz now the worst hitter in MLB because he's sucked for two weeks, or is he still the first guy you'd like to have at the plate with the game on the line. Rodriguez is a streaky hitter to begin with, and now that he's signed with the Yankees long term, he's virtually assuered of playing in 15 or so more post-season series over the rest of his career. Want to bet he doesn't bat .480 and have 3 or 4 homers in more than a couple of them?
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Oh yeah “sober student” couldn’t make a comment about Mike Lowell.
Playoff stats are overrated.
Smoke Crack much? I guess just playing the game is good enough? No true winners come through in the clutch. A-Fraud does not.
Do yourself a favor and try to leave your underwear fetish out of this if you want to be taken seriously. There is nothing “classless” about the use of the word “ass” in referrence to a person who argues might try to argue that a first ballot Hall of Famer is actually a bad player. You sound like an ass for saying so, and you’re to stupid to realize that the term doesn’t even have anything to do with human anatomy.
Actually, my comment about Mike Lowell would be that he’s a pretty decent player. Do you honestly think that his value is in some tiny way comparable to Alex Rodriguez? There’s no way to say this nicely: That is a stupid point. Period. Ask Mike Lowell.
There is one thing I never, ever, willingly do on this forum: Waste time talking about typos, punctuation, spelling etc. However, occasionally I run into a fool such as yourself. You had the audacity to correct me in your own ignorance. The only thing you accomplished was in letting everyone know just how stupid you are (in case there was any confusion). Personally, I would have stopped right there, but then you felt the need to bring up typos (truely the dominion of the clueless and the braindaed. Do yourself a favor and try no to let it happen again.
Getting back to baseball, other third basemen that you would probably prefer to A-Rod would include Scott Brosius and Aaron Boone, along with, Mike Lowell. For the moment, all three seem to be more "clutch" than Rodriguez. As a matter of fact, if all three were playing today, I'd still say that Rodriguez was more likely to get a hit or a homer in his next postseason at bat than the other three combined. And if you can not understand that, it amazes me, because it means you're even stupider than I thought you were.
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