Avesism Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 HIGH'JINX' HITS YANKEES CREW SABOTEUR BURIED RED SOX GEAR UNDER NEW STADIUM April 11, 2008 -- The new Yankee Stadium may be cursed! A devilish Boston fan working on a concrete crew at the $1.3 billion stadium covertly buried a Red Sox T-shirt under what will become the visiting team's locker room to jinx the Yanks, two construction workers told The Post yesterday. "In August, a Red Sox T-shirt was poured in a slab in the visitor's clubhouse. It's the curse of the Yankees," one worker said. "Nobody knows about it. It's in the floors, it's buried." The workers say they now fear that they unwittingly helped hex their beloved Bronx Bombers. "I don't want to be responsible for sinking the franchise," said a second worker, who witnessed the sabotage. "I respect the stadium." The Post has withheld their identities because they are not authorized to speak to media. This latest hex is above and beyond any typical ritual - like wearing a lucky shirt or hat - that fans typically do to boost their luck. "It sounds a little unprecedented to me," said Tim Wiles, director of research at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown. "I guess if the Yankees go 86 years in the new ballpark without a win we'll know if we are on to something," he said, referring to Boston's previous infamous losing streak after they sold Babe Ruth. "If I was a Yankees fan, that is my house. I don't want a Red Sox [T-shirt] under my house," he added. Chris Wertz, co-owner of the Red Sox bar Professor Thom's in the East Village, laughed at the ingenuity of the worker. "I won't be surprised in the least bit to see that visiting locker room torn up and relaid right away," he said. "This what makes the game special for baseball fans. It's not a mean thing, but something they will take seriously." Red Sox fans, he said, will see the buried garment as a good-luck charm, especially after years of seeing the retired numbers of four legendary players displayed in Fenway Park. It has long displayed "9" for Ted Williams, "4" for Joe Cronin, "1" for Bobby Doerr and "8" for Carl Yastrzemski - which comes out to 9-4-18, the day before the World Series that resulted in the last Red Sox championship until 2004. Baseball historians said these kinds of superstitions are not something to be scoffed at. "Curses start off very easily. It's all the power of suggestion and they take on a life of their own," said Dan Gordon, co-author of the 2007 book "Haunted Baseball." "Even the 'Curse of the Bambino' didn't really take off until the 1980s. Before then it was just hard luck," he said. Mickey Bradley, co-author of "Haunted Baseball," said a worker is said to have buried an unknown good-luck charm in a water main trench of the current Yankee Stadium back in 1920. "Prior to that, they never they won a World Series," he said. Players can also bring curses to their teams. "Look at the curse of A-Rod. The Yankees haven't won since [Alex Rodriguez] came to their game. There's probably more to that than a T-shirt," said Peter Nash, author of "Boston's Royal Rooters," a history of Red Sox fans. "This just takes the rivalry to whole new level. If you look at 2004, the Yankees were up three games. If Boston lost that, seriously, the whole franchise would have been decimated," said Nash, who performed with the rap duo Third Bass before writing about baseball. "I think there is a curse in effect already. Maybe the Red Sox T-shirt is like the icing on the cake, a nice little F-you from Boston," he said. The year 2004, of course, was the year the Red Sox broke their own curse and won the World Series after beating the Yankees in the playoffs. Still, stadiums have long had their own curses. One of them is the 1945 "Billy Goat" curse at Wrigley Field, the home of the Chicago cubs. Legend has it that William Sianis placed a curse on the team after stadium staff refused to let him enter with his pet goat. The team hasn't played in the World Series since 1945. Superstition in stadiums can also cut the other way and help a team. The Texas Rangers languished in their old stadium from 1972 to 1993, until they moved into a new ballpark the following year. Since then, the team won three division titles. More recently, the Tampa Rays may be cursed by their own new stadium, which was partially built over a cemetery. Over the past decade, the team had the worst record in all of Major League Baseball four times and finished last place in their division nine times. As for the buried emblem of hated Boston, the Yankees say they aren't the least bit worried. "It sounds like a tall tale, and it would take more than a Red Sox T-shirt to put a curse on the Yankees," said team spokesman Howard Rubenstein. http://www.nypost.com/seven/04112008/news/regionalnews/highjinx_hits_yankees_106016.htm?page=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phax Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 wat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandaid Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 the new stadium isnt cursed the team just sucks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreSixO Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 lol at the guy who was in 3rd bass who now writes about baseball what a linear career change Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avesism Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 that's the prime minister pete nice! he's a mets fan, which means he has an equal yankee hatred as a sox fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeping secrets Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Lol ^ Thats awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuelzSantana Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 its about fuckin time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prime Chaos Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 haha.. GET 'EM!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
After School Special Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 WIN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 That's funny. It would be even funnier if they tore up the floor....and found no shirt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prime Chaos Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 fuck the yankees, im tired of their dominance.. and fuck Derek Jeter.. i hate that little bitch with his stupid little smirk. like hes better then everyone. he can go have gay buttseks with A rod. fuck those tricks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Blazzed Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 FUCK THAT YOU CAN SAY ALL THE SHIT YOU WANT ABOUT THE YANKEES AS A ORGANIZATION.BUT I DONT CARE WHO YOU ARE.If you are a REAL BASEBALL fan, you HAVE to respect Derek Jeter.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
After School Special Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Nope. Absolutely no love for Jeter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prime Chaos Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 straight up... buck dat fitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
After School Special Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I even took dude out of my 12oz fantasy league draft picks :haha: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avesism Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 i wont front. i have a lot of respect for derek jeter as a person and a ball player. he comes off as a class act. ....but he's a yankee, so i hate his ass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreSixO Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Pete Nice is a history Major , YO from like Swarthmore or something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pistol Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 2 hours 14 minutes before this one. old news. Report: Worker tries to jinx Yanks with buried Red Sox shirt By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 50 minutes ago A construction worker on a concrete crew at the new Yankee Stadium secretly buried a Red Sox T-shirt under the future visiting clubhouse in an effort to jinx the Yankees, the New York Post reported Friday. The paper cited two construction workers it did not identify, saying they were not authorized to speak with the media. One of the workers said the T-shirt was poured in a slab in the visitor’s clubhouse. “It sounds like a tall tale, and it would take more than a Red Sox T-shirt to put a curse on the Yankees,” team spokesman Howard Rubenstein was quoted as saying. The Yankees move to the new ballpark in 2009. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
street villain Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 i wont front. i have a lot of respect for derek jeter as a person and a ball player. he comes off as a class act. ....but he's a yankee, so i hate his ass. i couldn't have said it better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ink face Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 didn't they lose their second or 3rd home game 22-4 or something like that? maybe its working... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a/s/l? Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Whoever put the shirt there is a FUCKING GENIUS. 10 BUX SAYS THAT THE YANKEES BLAME THEIR LOSES AT HOME ON THIS SHIT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackboatshoes Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 they got served by the sox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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