I bet you that George Costanza is at the bottom of this somewhere somehow...
A Red Sox fan buries a Red Sox shirt underneath the new Yankee stadium...now that's funny. This is by far, one of the most ridiculous stories that I have ever read but yet, I'm intrigued by it even though I'm not a fan of either team. This rivialry keeps getting better and better even with scenerios that take place off the field. To have fans this dedicated to their respective teams is a great thing for baseball and I won't ever knock it. Being a Mets fan, I love having this kind of rivalry against the Phillies except it isn't quite as interesting as the Yanks/Red Sox even though we're as passionate as fans as they are. All I can say is, good try Gino Castignoli, Red Sox nation loves you while all Yankee fans now loathe you.
The stories in the news this morning of them digging the concrete back up and removing it (to great fanfare, construction worker pontifications, Ken Levine histrionics, vague threats of criminal prosecution and watch-your-back, and flashbulbs all around) was hilarious. I mean, they didn't even fire the guy. Unless I'm parsing the story wrong, he's still working on the site, fergodsake.
Unions baby, unions.
Unless I'm parsing the story wrong, he's still working on the site, fergodsake. In the other article up there that Bo linked to it said that he only worked at the site one day. With Ortiz in the slump that he's in I think they should've left it buried.
Then what was with all the threats to watch his back, and that he could expect an ass-kicking on the site one day? Shit, he won't have to pay for a drink in Boston for years.
Then what was with all the threats to watch his back, and that he could expect an ass-kicking on the site one day? Posturing? Hanks's quote (or Hal's or whoever it's attributed to today) just mentioned his co-workers, nothing specific to the stadium site itself. The guy could be part of a crew that was just at the stadium that one day. Who knows. Do you really think someone who would wish for a guy to get his ass kicked over a stupid stunt like this really thinks things through?
It's a bad omen for the Yanks, and only a hint of more to come. It's a sacrilige to move that team to a new stadium and tear down that much baseball history. The spirits of the Yankee greats will heap so many curses on that new field it will make Poltergeist look like Casper the friendly ghost.
The Yankees would have to move sometime. Unless you think it would be worth it to continuously renovate a stadium in order to preserve tradition. Plus, if the spirits of Yankee greats were true Yankees I'd expect them to do all they could to help the Yankees win.
All I'm sayin' is that Babe Ruth's ghost is gonna be pissed when he hears that they're tearin' down the house he built.
All I'm sayin' is that Babe Ruth's ghost is gonna be pissed when he hears that they're tearin' down the house he built. That in itself may prove to be a curse to the Yankees. Still, I'm still chuckling about the shirt.
If you really wanted to curse them, wouldn't it have been better to put a Tampa Bay shirt under the Yanks clubhouse?
Or the Royals? That would be a curse. (In their defense that have looked decent at times this so far this season.)
The only thing that keeps coming up in my mind is that this guy bragged about this way too soon. If he had kept quiet for another couple months, they couldn't have removed it.
They should have left it buried. It was a David Ortiz jersey, and Ortiz was off to a terrible start. The jersey was exhumed, and Ortiz had 3 hits in the 2 games in Cleveland. That'll teach you, Hank!!!
wouldn't it have been better to put a Tampa Bay shirt under the Yanks clubhouse? They sell Tampa Bay jerseys? For money?
"[L]ook for the Twins in coming days to come up with a celebratory burial stunt in the concrete of their new ballpark."
The only thing that keeps coming up in my mind is that this guy bragged about this way too soon. If he had kept quiet for another couple months, they couldn't have removed it. That was only done to throw suspicion off the other Red Sox relic, Johnny Damon's jersey from Game Seven of the 2004 ALCS, which has, through a too-technical-to-explain-to-
the-likes-of-you process, been liquified, and is slowly being introduced to Gotham's water supply. /cue music /cue Bat Signal
Surprise!
Current bid $65,000!?!
It's increasing at about $1000.00 every few hours or so. It's got a higher bid than this!
