April 13, 2008
Wasted Money
I understand that players have superstitions, but management should be a little more rational:
Earlier this week, a construction worker who is a Boston fan working on the concrete crew at the $1.3 billion new Yankee Stadium buried a Red Sox shirt in with the concrete foundation, in the hopes of jinxing the New York Yankees' new home, the New York Post reported.
The newspaper reported Sunday that two workers approached a construction manager with what they thought was the location of the jersey. After digging a two-foot by three-foot hole, the jersey was found.
"They absolutely pinpointed that if it was in the ground, that's where it was," Yankees spokeswoman Alice McGillion told the newspaper.
Hal Steinbrenner wants the person who buried the shirt assaulted by his co-workers. If this is what the Yankees front office takes seriously, I fear for the future of the franchise.
Pure showmanship. Yankee management was not as concerned about superstition as they were about the publicity of the matter. Now it seems like they stopped the Red Sox from getting one over on them and the cost of it had to be fairly negligible.
But they missed the Detroit Tigers 1984 World Championship ring, and that program from the 1993 Blue Jays-Phillies series, and the DNA sample from Luis Sojo.
I think I saw this on a Columbo episode once.
"stopped the Red Sox from getting one over on them?"
I don't recall the Sox organization having anything to do with this...Yankee management looks petty and immature, from the actual digging up of the jersey to Hal's "I hope his coworkers kick his a**" comment to the fact that one of the articles says they might pursue legal action against the worker. Really stupid...
I agree - these 2 seem like nitwits - totally unimpressed with their baseball decisions as well.
Well, it COULD be because having an object in the middle of concrete means it would have a flaw and the entirestadium would come tumbling down, but I don't think so...
but I do remember at the 2002 Winter Olympics, the Canadian crew buried a "loonie" (Can. $1 coin) under the ice, and guess who won the gold?
I wonder what any other team would do if something like this came to light?? I doubt if the Red Sox management would just let the jersey sit there.
