Larry had a great point on this topic in the lounge. Think of it this way, Jim: what price would you pay to keep CHB, Fox, et al from mentioning this over and over until the Yankees win their 1st WS in the stadium?

Even for dumb news, this was dumb news

what price would you pay to keep CHB, Fox, et al from mentioning this over and over until the Yankees win their 1st WS in the stadium?

Okay, this point is a good one. From a self-interested point of view, I like it.

Wouldn't it be faster to just plant a Yankees jersey somewhere to offset the negative power of the Red Sox jersey? Possibly while Jason Giambi is still wearing it?

Or maybe sacrifice a goat or a stuffed pig, such as David Wells?

Maybe it was the cause of Papi's struggles!

Maybe it was the cause of Papi's struggles!

Either that or being the size of Musashimaru. One or the other.

It occurs to me that the person who buried said jersey should have kept it to himself until after they opened the park.

Wait, it's Hal, not Hank, with the Neanderthal quote in this piece? Mixing up their roles already?

It occurs to me that the person who buried said jersey should have kept it to himself until after they opened the park

That, or not do it and say he did, which would have necessitated breaking up all the concrete already poured. I wonder what the Yankees could have done to him in that case. Presumably a buried shirt does not constitute physical sabotage, and it's their own stupid lookout if they start digging around for it.

I wonder about the psychological aspects, even. If "the jersey felt like a filthy rag," what better foundation for Yankee Stadium than a filthy, trampled, concrete-poured-upon Boston shirt?

But clearly the Yankees brass is happier now with the possibility of a curse gone.

"I hope his co-workers kick the [expletive] out of him," Yankees co-chairperson Hal Steinbrenner said.

Nothing thuggish about that. Surprised he didn't ask to have the worker buried in the hole before it's filled back in.

Either that or being the size of Musashimaru.

Whoa. A Musashimaru reference on BBTF. I did not expect that.

This is the type of story that makes non-Sox and non-Yankee fans just cringe.
who cares? shut up! I know this is important because its the {Michael Kay jackass voice} its the Yankees! {/jackass off}

makes me want to vomit.

A Musashimaru reference on BBTF. I did not expect that.

I miss the Sumo tournaments ESPN used to run during slack times. I was a Takanohana fan. Musashimaru was one ugly dude.

This is the type of story that makes non-Sox and non-Yankee fans just cringe.

It makes plenty of Yankee and (I imagine) Red Sox fans cringe, too.

yeah we're cringing too
the whole thing was just hype timed to coincide with the first BOS-NYY games of the year. I'd guess that the whole story was dreamed up by the NY Post, which was the source for the original story and also for this follow-up, but maybe i'm just too cynical.

According to some rumors, there's a lot more down there now than just one shirt and in just one location. Good luck Steinbrenner welps.

I buried the jersey of the team that nobody likes inside the core of the earth. I'm not saying that taxpayer dollars should be spent to dig it up, but your favorite team will not win a pennant until the core jersey isn't there.

your favorite team will not win a pennant until the core jersey isn't there

And all along Ranger fans have been waiting for Hell to freeze over.

The interview on the video is hilarious. Hard to imagine that guy being a Red Sox fan, but it's true.

8. Chip Posted: April 13, 2008 at 02:29 PM (#2742083)
Wait, it's Hal, not Hank, with the Neanderthal quote in this piece? Mixing up their roles already?


the video on the story now linked attributes that quote to Hank.

Edit: I shouldn't say "now linked," I don't know if the URL in the link changed, but the story ESPN has up did.

I think if he had waited until the stadium was built to announce the jersey-burying, they wouldn't have bothered trying to dig it up. So this way, it was timed for maximum potential to disrupt the orderly erection of the stadium. Which indeed seems to be happening.

Yankees:this guy::United States:Osama bin Laden.

Maybe his dream will come true and the Yankees will waste their entire GDP trying to find this irrelevant jersey instead of attacking the actual source of their problems.

According to some rumors, there's a lot more down there now than just one shirt and in just one location.

NEW YORK CITY -- Luis Sojo's body was disinterred Wednesday night from the concrete-lined grave under the prospective Yankee Stadium III, in which traitorous construction personnel had placed the ex-Yankees mascot and infielder, who had been missing since March 31st. "The sad thing is that we were planning to sacrifice him to our idols of Ruth and Gehrig, and bury him there anyway. But not like this, this was undignified", Yankee spokesman Biff Steinbrenner stated, wiping away a tear of rage.

The half-built stadium is scheduled for demolition in mid-May, pending city approval to tear down the current Yankee Stadium II and erect Yankee Stadium 33 1/3 on its spot. The Yankees will be playing most of their games in their Staten Island farm team's Richmond County Ballpark, with some games in Shea Stadium and the Citibank Field in Islip during the times when Richmond County Ballpark is reserved for minor-league games and high-school marching-band competitions.

Maybe his dream will come true and the Yankees will waste their entire GDP trying to find this irrelevant jersey instead of attacking the actual source of their problems.

Actually, according to MLB's website, the Yankees unearthed the jersey today and plan to give it to charity. I guess Hal's long wait is over, and he will no longer know the nervous walking.

Oh, he just thinks that's the jersey. More tapes will emerge over the next months and even years, revealing new layers to the conspiracy...

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/photo?slug=6e21ee888a88466f849450442bad4223.yankees_curse_foiled_baseball_nyfr101&prov=ap

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/photo?slug=c588544fcfb64c9daba8156538837624.yankees_curse_foiled_baseball_nyfr102&prov=ap

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/photo?slug=874aab14cd2742758d324726bb0ba9e4.yankees_curse_foiled_baseball_nyfr103&prov=ap

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/photo?slug=38e14c3a439e4b4fb07ad5e1a59738fe.yankees_curse_foiled_baseball_nyfr104&prov=ap

This is the type of story that makes non-Sox and non-Yankee fans just cringe.

I wouldn't mind it as much if it was in the backpages along with Mark Prior's AAA stats and a Jamey Carroll feel-good story. That it keeps leading the news, however, makes me want to start burying sports reporters in the foundations.

this is, perhaps, the dumbest thing in the history of dumb.

This jersey thing...The Sawx-Yankees rivalry has entered the realm of camp, it it wasn't there already, of course. I saw this story on Fox News last night--I had been watching American Dad and my kitten fell asleep on me so I couldn't get to the remote because he is too fcking adorable to disturb when he's sleeping--and this story took up 5 minutes of the broadcast. My favorite line? "The construction workers say not to call them heroes, they're just doing what any good Yankee fan would do..."

Quite possibly the dumbest sports story ever.

"The construction workers say not to call them heroes,

Hey, no problem.

The construction workers say not to call them heroes

No problem, dips*its.

Quite possibly the dumbest sports story ever.

This is the dumbest thing in the history of dumb. I absolutely can not believe that they went back in and chopped up the foundation of a construction site to get a stupid piece of cloth out of there.

Excess. Lack of perspective. Geeky and weird.

A couple of years ago in the WWE, the Dudley Boyz kidnaped the Undertaker's manager, Paul Bearer and took possesion of his magical urn of power. The Dudleys' evil manager Paul Heyman told the Undertaker that unless he aligned with the Dudleys, he would never see his manager again. The Undertaker bowed down to Paul Heyman, and the fans thought that the evil genius now had control of him. Somehow this ended up in a match between both Dudley Boyz and the Undertaker, in which Heyman ordered the Undertaker to lose. To ensure that Undertaker would obey, the captive Paul Bearer was brought out inside a giant plexiglass booth. Should the Undertaker betray his master by winning, Heyman promised, he would throw a switch and fill the booth with concrete, thus burying Paul Bearer alive. Before the match began, Bearer was buried up to his neck in wet cement, to dramatize to the Undertaker what the stakes of his non-compliance would be. As feared, the Undertaker DID win the match. And so the diabolical Heyman was about to make good on his threat and suffocate the helpless Paul Bearer, when the Undertaker's magic bolt of lightning struck the cement mixer switch. Paul Heyman crawled away in shrieking terror, and Paul Bearer was safe from harm. But the Undertaker went up to the glass booth and turned on the switch himself, thus killing his own manager. The next week, Undertaker explained that the reason he had killed Paul Bearer himself was to demonstrate that if he was capable of drowning his own closest companion in liquid cement, could Heyman IMAGINE how cruelly he would deal with his enemies?

And that made way more sense than the Yankee Stadium "haunted concrete" story.

My favorite line? "The construction workers say not to call them heroes, they're just doing what any good Yankee fan would do..."

Any good Yankee fan would dig through concrete to retrieve a shirt? Really? How superstitious or thin-skinned are "good Yankee fans"?

According to the latest reports, the dig cost $50,000. If I wanted someone to drill through my foundation until they found a shirt, then jackhammer it out, patch the hole, and clean up, there's no way the bill comes to $50,000, even on a Sunday. How many people showed up for this?

A cement overcoat, real or symbolic, seems somewhat counter-intuitive as a good luck charm. You could ask Jimmy Hoffa but he doesn't seem to be giving interviews.

Excess. Lack of perspective. Geeky and weird.

Do we really have to make this about religion?

Musashimaru was one ugly dude.

Eh, brah, you like beef?

Bettah not come stay Waianae.

This stadium is already cursed anyway. They finalized the plans for it in 2004. Shortly thereafter...

According to some rumors, there's a lot more down there now than just one shirt and in just one location. Good luck Steinbrenner welps.

I kind of like the idea of Red Sox and Mets batting helmets in there.

Obviously the other people putting things in the foundation will be smarter about when they leak it to the press. Of course this means it will remain in everyone's minds and we'll have to hear about much more often... I think Muray Chass has found a book idea to keep in him warm in his twilight years....

The next week, Undertaker explained that the reason he had killed Paul Bearer himself was to demonstrate that if he was capable of drowning his own closest companion in liquid cement, could Heyman IMAGINE how cruelly he would deal with his enemies?

That would have been cool if nobody remembered The Usual Suspects