MLB: A Bizarre Story

Posted on | April 14, 2008 | No Comments

Pretty much all baseball fans know that the New York Yankees are playing their last season in Yankee Stadium. They are finishing up work on their new stadium, which will open next season.

Well, earlier this week a report surfaced that one of the workers secretly buried a Boston Red Sox jersey in the cememnt of the stadium in order to put a curse on the Yankees. At first it wasn’t taken seriously but after a few days some of the current workers remembered seeing the man who claimed to have buried the jersey. They took officials to the spot where the man was seen working and they started hammering away with a jack hammer.

So the work on the new stadium stopped and a small portion of th cement was jack-hammered for hours not because there was a bomb or even a lost wedding ring, but because there was a supposed jersey buried in the stadium.

Now I’ve played my fair share of sports in my day. And I was fairly superstitious – I never stepped on the chalk in baseball, I blessed myself before every at bat (superstition meets religion), and I always wore the same t-shirt under my jersey when we were winning. But this went too far even for me.

They did find the jersey – Sunday afternoon around 3. And it turned out it was a Red Sox jersey – David Ortiz to be exact. So the Red Sox – Yankees rivalry is alive and well. But would this have doomed the Yankees if the jersey wasn’t excavated? No. What’s doomed the Yankees is their trading away all their young talent for over-priced and over-aged stars.

However the Yankees have some great young pitchers now and they seem to have learned their lesson about trading away their young prospects. So that means things are looking up for the Yanks when they move into their new stadium. And a buried David Ortiz jersey wouldn’t have changed that.

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