Monday, April 14, 2008

Red Sox - Yankees.....and a t-shirt

This is part of what makes fan-hood so crazy, and baseball so interesting.

In summary, a Red Sox fan buried a t-shirt under the concrete floor of the New York Yankees new stadium.

Why is this a big deal....baseball people, whether they like to admit it or not, are very superstitious. The Cubs still blame a goat for their World Series failures, and they bought the Bartman ball, just to blow it up. The Red Sox blamed the "curse of Babe Ruth".

Now, in reality, all this disappears when you actually win a world series, but until then, fans tend to very superstitious (Players are too, see Wade Boggs eating chicken before every game).

Anyways, at first it was reported that the t-shirt was buried under the visiting clubhouse, but in reality it was where a restaurant was going to be. According to the store, anonymous sources tipped off the real location. The stadium itself is going to cost over a BILLION dollars, so what's a little extra expense in seeing a little more concrete dug up. My guess is that organizational pressure (i.e. you could lose your job) made the exact location a little easier to find.

Check out the link....it's really a bizarre story. They jack-hammered through 2 feet of concrete!!!!! (someone's going to get in trouble....)

Update: At the cost of about $30,000 and wasted 5-1/2 hours of work!!!!!!

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