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Friday, April 11, 2008

N.Y. Post: CREW SABOTEUR BURIED RED SOX GEAR UNDER NEW YANKEE STADIUM (RR)

Make Us Red Sox?...I thought Jimmy Hoffa was last seen at the Machus Red Fox?

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.”

...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.

Repoz Posted: April 11, 2008 at 07:01 AM | 30 comment(s)
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   1. RB in NYC (Now with Resolutions!)  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 06:20 AM (#2739289)
Wouldn't this story be marginally less stupid if it had been buried under the home clubhouse?
   2. OCD SS  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 06:41 AM (#2739291)
If it's in the visiting clubhouse they should have just mixed champagne with the concrete.
   3. Superunknown Gary Geiger Counter  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 07:10 AM (#2739294)
Hoffa, eh? I dig Repoz's true crime leadins; prolly cuz I know more about that stuff than nonmainstream music.
   4. Rich  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 07:29 AM (#2739298)
I suspect that there is a lot worse buried under virtually every inch of New York, Boston, and most other big cities.
   5. Edmundo is Super Average Man  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 07:30 AM (#2739299)
Thank goodness, we haven't had anything on the ultra-fabulous Red Sox-Yankee rivalry for a really, really, long time. This is stupider than the stupidest of Hank's rants.

There, I really do feel better now.
   6. villainx  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 08:38 AM (#2739327)
No noose, huh? Or is that word too taboo?
   7. Fumbduck Joe Bivens  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 08:45 AM (#2739334)
No noose is good noose!! [/Brattain]

You can say noose. Just don't leave one hanging around.
   8. Craig Calcaterra  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 09:00 AM (#2739344)
Well, since they're spending billions already, they may as well sign a subcontract for someone to search for, excavate for, and extract the thing.
   9. Hack Wilson  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 09:00 AM (#2739345)
Permitting Yankee-BoSox games to be played on such tainted soil would be a travesty. All of these games should be played in Boston, or better yet, a moratorium on Yankee-BoSox games should be instituted.

If both teams qualify for the playoffs, both teams would be excluded and the other AL East teams move in as substitutes.
   10. Swoboda is freedom  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 09:19 AM (#2739369)
Well, since they're spending billions already, they may as well sign a subcontract for someone to search for, excavate for, and extract the thing.

As long as it is paid for by the city or state of NY.
   11. Dr Love  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 09:41 AM (#2739383)
My, there's quite a few levels of stupid here. Let me get this straight, you helped bury the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. Good job.
   12. Cooperstown Schtick  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 09:42 AM (#2739385)
It's true, you know. A guy carved "Les loves Mary Ellen" in the foundation under the bleachers, and two weeks later they broke up. To really test it, I wrote "Daughtry Rules" on the wall of one of the Port-o-potties. Sorry, dude.

(If you don't send a link to this comment to ten friends by midnight, your fantasy team will fall from first to fifth on the last day of the season. You have been warned.)
   13. zonk  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 09:45 AM (#2739387)
It's pretty obvious that what would be best for baseball and the nation would be for the Red Sox and Yankees to take a few seasons off. Jeterless summers...that would be fun. I might even watch Baseball Tonight again.
   14. Win one for Agrippa (haplo53)  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 09:50 AM (#2739395)
It probably beats having your stadium possessed by the soul of a dead murderer.
   15. tfbg9  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 09:52 AM (#2739396)
Well, Hank's just gonna have to find the damn thing now.
   16. Dr Stankus and the Semicolons  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 10:09 AM (#2739412)
Hank's a good name for a hound. My next basset will be named Hank Steinbrenner.
   17. Watch out for the door, Omar...(Met Fan Charlie)  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 10:20 AM (#2739421)
It's the year 2164.

Venerable Yankee Stadium III is being razed. In the foundation a Boston Red Sox jersey is discovered next to an old strongbox. Inside the strongbox is a glum-looking frog wearing a tophat...
   18. John Lynch  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 10:38 AM (#2739436)
Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal!
Send me a kiss by wire!
Baby, my heart's on fire!
If you refuse me, honey, you'll lose me,
Then you'll be left alone.
So, baby, telephone and tell me I'm your ooooooooown.

{ribbit}
   19. Toolsy McClutch  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 10:53 AM (#2739450)
Best. Cartoon. Ever.
   20. Toolsy McClutch  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 10:53 AM (#2739451)
On to the topic at hand, you think old Howard has too much free time on his hands now?

This kind of crap is beneath an official response, non?
   21. RMc is the Commissioner of Baseball  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 04:05 PM (#2739771)
Trivia: The song the frog sings, "The Michigan Rag," was not an old-time classic tune (like the others in the cartoon) but was in fact written especially for it.
   22. robinred  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 04:11 PM (#2739777)
Best. Cartoon. Ever
.

It's up there. But don't forget:

Kill the Wabbit!
   23. tfbg9  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 04:21 PM (#2739786)
I used to call Rudy Seanez the WB Frog when he was with the Sox, because he only "performed" when no one was looking, ie, blowouts.
   24. Toolsy McClutch  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 06:20 PM (#2739919)
The one doesn't look familiar. Got a YouTube link?

One Froggy Evening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGE8wVTvHF0&feature=related
   25. TerpNats  Posted: April 11, 2008 at 08:07 PM (#2740277)
The next president (Obama, I hope) should invite Larry Lucchino and Hank Steinbrenner to the White House in early 2009...then knock their heads together. The new prez's approval ratings would skyrocket, even in New York and New England.
   26. cardsfanboy  Posted: April 12, 2008 at 11:59 AM (#2740647)
The Frog is good, my girlfriends ring tone is Owl Jolson which is probably on par with the Frog. . (with our cell phones the only way to get 'free' ring tones is to make a short video, but in this case it worked out great)
   27. Gonfalon Bubble  Posted: April 12, 2008 at 12:13 PM (#2740663)
As curses go, the Red Sox shirt under the concrete is nothing. One of the bathrooms has Ted Williams' head in the urinal.
   28. Obo  Posted: April 12, 2008 at 12:28 PM (#2740690)
The Curse of the Head in the Head?
   29. Random Transaction Generator  Posted: April 12, 2008 at 12:36 PM (#2740713)
This is all just a weak-ass ripoff of the Canadian ice maker embedding the Canadian one dollar coin (loonie) at centre ice for the Olympic hockey games in Salt Lake in 2002.
   30. CONservative governMENt  Posted: April 12, 2008 at 02:14 PM (#2740867)
Derek Jeter said he poured some of his own special concrete into some girls from Boston to counter the jinx. Apparently this contributed to his hamstring injury.
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