The great, but untrue, t-shirt story
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- April
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The ever creative Post reported today that some Boston fan threw a Red Sox t-shirt into the concrete at the New Stadium. Somehow, this would curse the place. Sure thing.
Anyway, the Yankees say it’s not true and they actually had Howard Rubenstein’s office release a statement.
“We noticed that the NY Post wrote a fun and interesting story about a t-shirt today — but it never happened,” it said. “Yankee fans know that burying something in concrete in the basement is never a good thing. Memo to the Post: You’re 10 days late for April Fool’s Day.”
Yankee fans know that burying something in concrete in the basement is never a good thing? What does that mean?
At any rate, make of this what you will.
Back in a bit with the lineups.
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Peter Abraham
That’s interesting…Wonder what the Post will say in return.
Yea, because the Yankees are going to release a statement saying it’s 100%. Oh how naive.
that’s weird. next we’ll be reading about how the new yankee stadium was built on top of an old native american burial ground…
How great it is going to be to SWEEP Boston IN Boston, with the services of Derek Jeter not even being needed ??? NICE !!!
Jimmy Hoffa-style?
I got no idea what the hell he meant by that
“Yankee fans know that burying something in concrete in the basement is never a good thing.”
It’s a reference to Hamlet, to Polonius’ famous speech to Laertes:
“To thine own self be true, never a borrower nor a lender be, bury not red shirts in basements’ concrete…”
because a t-shirt in concrete has an effect on the outcome of a baseball fans. Just like Kay saying perfect game or no hitter has an effect on a pitcher.
Sometimes superstitions or curses are ridiculous.
I think Blargh has the right idea…
baseball games… opps.
i bet if we throw feces at fenway, redsux fans won’t tell the difference! hahaha redsux, blow rays, blow jays, oreos.
I think the curse is that a Red Sox fan is building the new stadium.
Don’t they screen these construction workers?
from previous thread:
Shot in the dark attempt at lineup:
Damon LF
Cabrera CF
Abreu RF
Rodriguez 3B
Posada DH
Giambi 1B
Molina C
Cano 2B
Gonzales SS
Hystrical, anti. HYSTERICAL! See, instead of Red SOX, you made it Red SUX! Because the suck!
You, sir, are wasting your comedic talents on this blog.
my issue with the whole t-shirt thing is that - if it’s true - it’s unprofessional and immature. here’s a construction worker who is getting paid to do a job, not screw around. i’m sure he’s getting paid good money, too - if anything, we all know the yankees are famous for paying their people well.
if he was just a fan, walking by, who threw a shirt over the fence, i wouldn’t be so annoyed by it. it’s the “no-consequences, frat-boy” vibe that gets to me here.
i walk by fenway at least three times a week - i dont draw the NY symbol anywhere, i don’t start sticking pins into voodoo dolls, i don’t do anything like that. i respect the rivalry, and i think about how lucky i am to be able to appreciate the history and meaning of the stadium and fenway.
it’s similar to the hawk attack from last week - some people up here actually thought it was funny that that little girl got clawed at, just because her name is alexa rodriguez. it’s infantile and it’s sad. those type of fans are the lowest common denominator, but unfortunately, they’re usually the ones that are on display.
Wow a Red Sox fan is building the whole stadium by himself. He had better hurry if he wants it to be ready in time for next year.
To me, it means two things:
1) Some Sox fan is now out of a tshirt to wear.
2) Some people put way too much stock in superstitions. Does this fan not have enough faith in his team’s ability to win games by simply putting a good team on the field? Attempting to place a curse on another team intentionally is a pretty sorry way try to gain an advantage, regardless of how inane and empty it is.
thank you, stephen.
good news on Horne it isn’t a ligament tear, it is a slight tear of his right bi-cep he’s going to Tampa to rehab it.
Mel
I like the line-up but where is the obligatory typo?
Brilliant Murphydog…brilliant.
Don’t think it’s true.
1. He wouldn’t be caught alive on a construction site with a Red Sox shirt. Where’d he hide it, in his lunch pail?
2. One person would not be laying foundation. If other people saw it, they would’ve threw him in there, too. Or at the very least it wouldn’t have taken 7 months for the story to come out.
3. Now he’s remorseful, “I don’t want to curse the Yankees”?!? Hardly Red Sox behavior.
They just quickly ran through the lineup Posada in not sure if he is DH or Catcher though
seriously my uncle cursed the yankees in 2001. He said from now on the yankees will never win a championship. His “curse” is holding up so far.
Jimmy,
Shhh. Don’t tell anyone, it’s invisible type. But Matsui’s also playing catcher today. He’ll be doing his ninja thing back there.
gotcha Mel
How many times is laptop gonna crash tonight?
M&MD just had the line-up but I missed it. Anybody hear it?
Brandon,
I saw the news about Horne on CJ’s SW-B blog and was relieved. The most reassuring part is that Horne didn’t seem to upset about it when texting with Chad. Hopefully, he bounces back in time to contribute down the stretch.
murphy, that’s got to be one of the funniest things I’ve ever read on here. Nice wit.
I caught Melky Cano Abreu Alex after that it was like Japanese talk to me.
I heard on the Fan they were actually digging it up… what gives?
“Yankee fans know that burying something in concrete in the basement is never a good thing? What does that mean?”
Well, I’ll tell you… It’s sorta like sea monkeys, you know.
Lineup
http://www.nj.com/yankees/index.ssf/2008/04/damon_sits.html
Is it too late to tear down Yankee Stadium, find the shirt, and put it back up again?
Deputy Dawg
April 11th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Anybody know the whereabouts of this guy ?
http://www.kfdm.com/onset?id=5203&template=article.html
“Sometimes superstitions or curses are ridiculous.”
That’s because there’s no such thing as a curse, superstition or ghost. Voodoo also doesn’t work.
if im the manager this would be my lineup:
melky CF
cano 2B
abreu RF
arod ss
giambi 1B
posada C
matsui DH
damon LF
ensberg 3B
I don’t doubt that someone told the Post that someone did the t-shirt thing, but I would be shocked if it were true… And even if it were true, how does some Joe Schmo’s smelly shirt in the concrete have any power to jinx the Yankees? Silliness.
I know rbizzler, it could have been worse. I’d gladly take slight tear in bicep instead of nerve damage
Pat - Thanks for posting the line-up. Can’t believe Cano is back in the #2 hole. He is awful in that spot.
Anybody know the whereabouts of this guy ???
http://www.kfdm.com/onset?id=5203&template=article.html
I have a feeling Damon will sit, here’s my revised lineup:
Cabrera cf, Cano 2b, Abreu rf, Rodriguez 3b, Matsui lf, Posada dh, Giambi 1b, Molina c, Gonzalez ss
Jimmy,
I’m hoping for the best, but prepared for the worst. I will go out on a limb and predict that Laptops will not pitch a no-hitter.
Also IF they get the game in and IF Wang is on his game the outfielders should not be too busy so makes sense to sit Damon
I live and work in Mass. The Sox fan yahoos I work with were giving it to me pretty good this morning. I shut them up when I said the guy was a typical sox fan… too stupid to take the shirt off before throwing it in lol.
My Yankee fan brethren high fived me the rest of the day lol
Hoffa anyone?
so, what kind of warm reception do you guys think A-Rod will get when he passes Ted Williams, at Fenway, on the homerun list this weekend? I bet it is worse than what he hears during October at Yankee Stadium! He will probably wait to do it on the ESPN Sunday night baseball game!
I feel sorry for that shirt. Like every Redsox fan, it now has to be buried beneath the enormity that is the New York Yankees.
I think I could fall in love ( temporarily at least) with Posada at DH.
Molina has to rank up there with Cashman’s best transactions.
I still think Damon and Giambi will hit eventually. Right now they look pretty old.
redsux nation can’t afford a new stadium… boooohooo! poor baby!
Sara - on FOX Saturday or ESPN Sunday night - either would be sweet. Maybe tie it Saturday and pass it Sunday.
Steve, good one!
Fran, I think they should put Cano in a spot (where he was last year) and let him get comfortable again. This moving around may not be helping him as he looks for his groove.
The alternatives are not pretty, though. Push everyone up or put the AG in the 2 spot.
Can they just sit fastball all night?
“Yankee fans know that burying something in concrete in the basement is never a good thing.”
The literal translation is it might weaken the foundation and end up getting you fired. Or it’s the skeletons in the closet response. What you hide can eventually come back to haunt you.
I hope they don’t check under the bleachers in the current stadium.
Bleacher Creature,
Do you have something to share with us that we don’t know? lol
Mel - I agree - put him in the 7 hole and leave him there. I guess tonight without Damon playing they have no choice but to put Cano in the #2 spot. But when Damon bats leadoff I think that Melky should be in the #2 spot until Derek is back.
I say Giambi takes Clay deep twice tonight!
Rubenstein’s statement about burying things in the basement is positively baffling.
I’m guessing it’s an attempt at mafia/mob humor maybe?
And I don’t care if they put a t-shirt in the concrete. If Boston never wins another WS after we move into the new stadium, then it’ll soon become that burying the shirt in the concrete has buried the Red Sox in the Yankees Cellar for good.
That’s what we should all start saying. The Red Sox are now cursed/doomed to be in the yankees cellar for eternity.
That ought to get the chowda heads all riled up from Framingham to Pittsfield.
Drive 4-5
Agree about Molina… he’s really making me like the idea of him back there on a more frequent basis. Might be time for Posada to get serious about taking some ground balls at first.
Umm did anyone read the last entry??
It said that this whole thing was NOT true.
The post lives off of making up stories like this. You guys have to calm down.
“Yankee fans know that burying something in concrete in the basement is never a good thing.”
I THINK they meant to write that “Red Sox fans know that burying something in concrete in the basement is never a good thing, and they were referring specifically to Teddy Baseball’s frozen head.
think they’ll play a game tonight? seems like rain all night in boston. anyone live close and can let us know?
Great news on Alan Horne. He has a small tear in his biceps.
There’s no nerve damage as some had been speculating on earlier. No ligament damage or tendon damage either. It’s only the muscle itself.
He’ll be fine. What a relief. He’s got a promising future.
Early this morning on the Benigno and Roberts on WFAN, a construction worker called in and said that when you bury something you are trying to make something bad happen to that. So theoretically burying a Red Sox shirt, actually curses the Red Sox.
As for curses, people ignore the big one, since Bush was “elected” in 2000 the Yankees have yet to win the series. I don’t know what that means for this year, but next year we will be in the clear of Bush for sure.
But curses don’t exist, the Red Sox just sucked for 86 years.
Yankee fans know that burying something in concrete in the basement is never a good thing.”
McNamee’s Basement according to Joey Salvia -
Could be what was meant
Burying a t-shirt in concrete? That’s kid’s play.
We turned Mickey Mantle’s old liver into a cornerstone
thanks for the update, cb. Agreed great news.
Drew, where did you get that lineup from?
Drew,
If youre right, I like that lineup.
still cloudy in boston (but a high sky, for what it’s worth), not as windy. it’s not raining out my office window (north of boston).
“Drew, where did you get that lineup from?”
Newsday posted it.
Not a fan of Melky leading off but he’s been hot lately. Other than that it looks good to me, lets go out and get a win (weather permitting).
I’m not super psyched on cano in the 2-hole right now. He’s not very good at getting on base and seems likely to overthink the 2-slot job and roll over on outside pitches and hit grounders to 2B. Though, without jeter AND damon, I’m not sure who else I put up there.
Here’s hoping he wakes up and goes back to taking what the pitcher gives him.
I hope the Yankees shell Buchholz tonight. They should do it for all of us who got our laptops stolen.
Just curious, speaking of bidet’s, has anyone ever used one?
Agree about Cano batting 2nd…atleast at this point in the season. He has not found any consistency with his swing and he usually is first pitch swinging into an infield popup or goundout to 2B. He needs to sit back and take some pitches and Girardi keeps flipping him around in the order. Somebody already posted it, but he needs to be put down in the order and find his groove.
Forget about this stupid curse topic. The story is bogus and even if it were true, it wouldn’t make any difference. Just some idiotic Sox fan stirring the pot. Hopefully we’ll shut him and the rest of the so-called Sox Nation up by sweeping them at home.
ok I’ll be back people I’m going to my least friend’s house right now to flush a Red Sox jersey down his toilet I’ll let you know if the jinx works
Godzilla vs. the Green Monster might be interesting tonight. Hopefully he fields better with less territory to cover.
“I hope the Yankees shell Buchholz tonight. They should do it for all of us who got our laptops stolen.”
I always laugh at your screen name…I never knew it was true!
Jeff NJ,
Don’t worry. Matsui will play the Green Monster like a Pachinko machine.
O/T, but Harlem son James Blake’s in a really good Davis Cup match on Versus right now.
I believe that Cano is a warm weather hitter, the last two seasons he has gotten off to slow starts. With that said, I do believe he enjoys playing at Fenway. He usually somes through with a big hit for us. I think his bat will show up today, hes too good to be held down this long.
Truthfully, at the moment I prefer Melky leading off rather than Damon. I know Damon has speed but what good is speed if you can’t get on base? I have a feeling Melky and Cano will be a huge part of tonight’s offensive game.
Robbie Cano should never bat 2nd.
Clay Buchholz stole my laptop (aka Joe),
I rented a house that had a bidet, only used it two or three times, they are a pain in the butt to use(no pun intended, but they are refreshing. Side note: They are not so cool when all of your drunk friends pee in it thinking that it is a funny looking toilet.
Hank should mount Ted Williams’ head on a pike above the front gate.
With Jeter and damon not playing, I’d go with this lineup:
Bobby Abreu RF
Melky Cabrera cf
Hideki Matsui LF
Alex Rodriguez 3b
Jorge Posada dh
Jason Giambi 1b
Jose Molina c
Robbie Cano 2b
Alberto Gonzalez ss
Abreu could likely be the best leadoff hitter on this team.
Another Red Sox(shirt) buried at Yankee Stadium…And will keep on burying them..GO YANKEES
“Yankee fans know that burying something in concrete in the basement is never a good thing?”
Maybe he is taking a shot at the Orioles.
What does “Yankee fans know that burying something in concrete in the basement is never a good thing” mean anyway?
Just a wild guess but I think he means Yankee fans know that burying something in concrete in the basement is never a good thing.
The post “reports” today that is is a “Big Papi” Jersey and provides photos………
Perhaps the curse is on Ortiz…..what is his batting average this year???
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080413&content_id=2523286&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
Looks like it was true
“Don Vito A. Bellamo April 11th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
How great it is going to be to SWEEP Boston IN Boston, with the services of Derek Jeter not even being needed ??? NICE !!!”
sweep?? almost, except they lost the series.. again. lol yanks blow