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Yankees/Red Sox Rivalry Reaches New Stupid High
4/11/08
A Red Sox fan construction worker working with a concrete crew at the new $1.3 billion Yankee Stadium covertly buried a Red Sox T-shirt under what will become the visiting team's locker room to jinx the Yanks.
Sounds exactly like a Boston fan to me, as in he's so stupid he buried the jersey under the opposing team's dugout, not the Yankees team dugout - which would have made a hell of a lot more sense.
Naturally, because New York's the center of the universe, the city is up in arms about this, believing this could be the new reverse Curse of the Bambino.
The New York Post is withholding the names of the two snitches who leaked the story, and wrote an opus on what is essentially a non-story.
Perhaps the lamest part of the story is this nugget of stupidity.
"Curses start off very easily. It's all the power of suggestion and they take on a life of their own," said Dan Gordon, co-author of the 2007 book "Haunted Baseball."
"Even the 'Curse of the Bambino' didn't really take off until the 1980s. Before then it was just hard luck," he said.
Mickey Bradley, co-author of "Haunted Baseball," said a worker is said to have buried an unknown good-luck charm in a water main trench of the current Yankee Stadium back in 1920. "Prior to that, they never had won a World Series," he said.
You can always count on the Post to dig for "experts." By which I mean people who wrote books you've never heard of that no one has ever read."Even the 'Curse of the Bambino' didn't really take off until the 1980s. Before then it was just hard luck," he said.
Mickey Bradley, co-author of "Haunted Baseball," said a worker is said to have buried an unknown good-luck charm in a water main trench of the current Yankee Stadium back in 1920. "Prior to that, they never had won a World Series," he said.
You know what, if we're really lucky, both these teams will be cursed and neither one of them will ever will a World Series again.
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