Most of your well-known baseball "curses" have developed organically. The Babe Ruth trade, the dismissal of a goat from Wrigley Field and the decision to build PNC Park in Pittsburgh on a haunted Indian burial ground (note: may not be true) weren't designed to bring bad luck upon their franchises. They were just decisions that backfired on the teams involved. An enterprising construction worker at the in-construction Yankee Stadium is trying a different route to jinx the Yankees once they move into the new ballpark. He buried a Red Sox t-shirt inside the concrete used to build the visitor's clubhouse, the New York Post reports this morning, and some of his co-workers believe they may have helped doom the Yankees to 86 years of futility.
"I don't want to be responsible for sinking the franchise," said a second worker, who witnessed the sabotage. "I respect the stadium."
Everyone's mileage varies when it comes to superstition, but such a heavy-handed attempt to sway the baseball gods seems like pretty mild stuff. You might as well just use voodoo dolls of your rival team's best players, so long as your rival team's best player is Rich Harden or Carl Pavano.
UPDATE: The Yankees have issued a denial that anything is buried beneath Yankee Stadium.
So, will it work? The closest relative to this action would be the purported burial of Jimmy Hoffa underneath Giants Stadium. While the Giants have won three Super Bowls in the intervening years, the Teamsters haven't even made it to the big game which should concern the Yankees and their fans.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
4-11-2008 @ 11:37AM
tobrien28 said...
Why should Yankee fans be worried? The Giants/Teamsters comment would make you think Soxd fans should worry.
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4-11-2008 @ 12:34PM
mike said...
oh my god lol get real somebody has to dig it up hahahahahahah lol
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4-11-2008 @ 1:04PM
Tom Miller said...
Proves how stupid the red sox fans are if he wanted to jinx the yankees he should have put it in the yankees clubhouse, not the visitors clubhouse.
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4-11-2008 @ 2:32PM
chuck said...
thats just desperation!what a reterd
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4-11-2008 @ 2:33PM
chuckann said...
thats just desperation!what a retard
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4-11-2008 @ 2:59PM
sama said...
i hope he got fired for pulling such a petty stunt obviously he was not taking his union job seriously!!
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4-11-2008 @ 3:23PM
Rollando said...
Oh boy! Wow! I wonder if George Steinbrenner popped his gasket over this. The first game has yet to be played and he sees somebody has already started this foolery. Has he ordered security tightened recently? Maybe it was Billy Martin's spirit trying to get revenge on George for some deal in the past gone bad. Sarcasm aside.......
The Yankees need not to worry. The Pirates will take the Series away from them.
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4-11-2008 @ 4:10PM
Judy B said...
If the co-worker really respects the stadium & doesn't want responsibility on sharing in this curse attempt & "sabotage" why didn't he simply take the stupid shirt out of the cement. DUH. BTW the only curse we Yankee fans have to worry about is that of the Babe...he might not be too happy about his house being destroyed!!
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4-11-2008 @ 4:29PM
Michele Beaver said...
Was the T-shirt buried next to Jimmy Hoffa?
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4-11-2008 @ 5:35PM
whitey said...
THE JINKS IS ON STANKEES !
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4-11-2008 @ 5:46PM
mike said...
Hoffa Hoffa Hoffa may be buried there. Remember they never found him.
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4-11-2008 @ 6:07PM
Incasunrise44 said...
Hey--Jimmy Hoffa's buried there --he was wearing a RED SOCKS shirt!!
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4-11-2008 @ 9:06PM
the TRUTH said...
Since 1918, the Bfagston Dead Sux (AKA the Boston Red Sox) have won TWO World Championships -- the same number that the Florida Marlins have won since 1993. MEANWHILE, the New York Yankees have won TWENTY-SIX World Championships since 1918 (and four since 1993, for that matter). The Bfagston Dead Sux are no more then dirt under the cleats of the New York Yankees. Let me know when the little red clowns win another TWENTY or so.
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4-11-2008 @ 10:29PM
bmurphy said...
The Red Sox fan cursed the Red Sox. When he buried that shirt, he buried the fate of the Red Sox. To me, it means that we are going to bury them every time we play them at Yankee Stadium. hahahahaha, the jokes on them.
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4-11-2008 @ 10:35PM
johnjm said...
We buried many a Red Sox team at the old stadium. what's a little shirt gonna do?
As far as Judy B...
The Babes' house was torn down in '73!
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4-11-2008 @ 10:35PM
bmurphy said...
The Red Sox fan just cursed the Red Sox. When he buried the shirt, what he said was every time the Red Sox comes to play the Yankees, we are going to bury them (hahahaha), the laughs on them.
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4-11-2008 @ 10:36PM
bmurphy said...
The Red Sox just got cursed. What that fan did was reverse the curse. We are going to BURY THOSE DAM RED SOX when they come to town. hahahahaha
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4-12-2008 @ 12:46AM
lenny said...
That T shirt is UNDER the Yankees. That makes the Red Sox below the Yankees. this is the the correct order of the standings
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4-12-2008 @ 6:53AM
fasteddy714 said...
The best curse the Red Sox placed was on themselves when they kept Elsbury to ride the pine instead of trading him for Santana, this past offseason!!!
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4-12-2008 @ 8:16AM
Budo said...
Unreal that a new stadium is being built right across the street from the original--WHY!!!??? This was THE ICON of baseball stadiums and one of which had the most BY FAR of baseball history.
I hate the Yankees, BUT loved the stadium almost as a museum. It is amazing what evil money can do and so much disloyalty exists in the world. Maythe Yankees never win a World Series again!
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