04.14.08

NY Yankees Remove Buried Red Sox Jersey

The New Yankee Stadium

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Curse of the T-Shirt?: Red Sox Buried in New Yankee Stadium -- bleacher report, paul salman

So some Boston fan who is working on the new Yankee Stadium thinks he will be the one to employ some new curse for the next say, 86 years, but this time against the Yankees.He felt the need to bury a Red Sox t-shirt in the concrete under what will be the new visiting locker room. For the superstitious, this can go either way.

Either he curses the Yankees with this piece of Red Sox lore in the stadium, or he curses the his own Red Sox by this symbolizing the Red Sox being buried in Yankee Stadium for the next 86 years.

It seems that the long civic nightmare that was T-Shirtgate has finally come to an end. The Yankees finally admitted that there was a Red Sox jersey buried in the bowels of the new stadium and employed a team of jackhammers to find the offending garment yesterday.

Hank Steinbrenner, in his inimitable style, denied the shirt's hex appeal shortly after calling in a construction team on a weekend to work for five hours to remove it. He also offered his thoughts about how to deal with Gino Castignoli, the hardhat who buried the thing in the first place. He didn't however, explain why something that preyed on superstitious silliness bothered him quite so much.

"It's a bunch of bullshit," Hank said. I hope his coworkers kick the shit out of him."

Castignoli may have learned his concrete burial skills from the acknowledged masters of the game. According to the New York Post, truly a shame that the Pulitzers have already been handed out this year, he pleaded guilty to involvement in a Gambino family gambling ring although he probably didn't testify for the prosecution, seeing as how he himself isn't wearing the cement boots.

What have we learned from this ordeal? It's pretty easy to get Lil' Stein's goat, for one thing. Serving him a Boston cream pie would probably land you a broken nose and any Yankee employee coming to work with hosiery in the shade of crimson should expect a pink slip.