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Workers dig to rid new Yanks stadium of Red Sox Jersey

sports.espn.go.com — It took about five hours, but the Red Sox jersey that was embedded in the concrete of the Yankees' new stadium to place a curse on the New York franchise has been unearthed with jackhammers, according to a published report. Earlier this week, a construction worker who is a Boston fan working on the concrete crew...

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  • pixelate, on 04/14/2008, -9/+13Blast!
  • jaybol, on 04/14/2008, -5/+22good to see hal following in his dad's footsteps: "I hope his co-workers kick the [expletive] out of him," Yankees co-chairperson Hal Steinbrenner said.
    • Ajajadude, on 04/14/2008, -8/+5I can only hope he feels the need to sign as many over-the-hill players as possible to long, lucrative contracts. Just like daddy and Cashman.
    • BinaryDelt, on 04/14/2008, -7/+6Hal is a douchebag.
    • bingobongony, on 04/14/2008, -5/+2classy.
  • dontburythis, on 04/14/2008, -1/+44It was an Ortiz shirt...by they way he's hitting ,the curse was on him...
  • NachoBusiness, on 04/14/2008, -0/+158I assume the Cubs are frantically digging under Wrigley to find out what the hell is buried there...
    • insomniac8400, on 04/14/2008, -1/+6They already did that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrigley_Field
      "As part of the excavation, the crew found and removed the foundations of the goal posts from the Bears' playing days. The crew also reported that they left a "time capsule" buried somewhere under the new turf. Lowering the infield by 14 inches also effectively raises the outfield barrier by 14 inches, from the standpoint of the batter. It remains to be seen whether that factor will have any effect on home run production."
    • Doubledown, on 04/14/2008, -0/+3I would think the remains of a Goat are buried there.....
    • MajorMansteak, on 04/14/2008, -9/+3the only team I hate more than the yanks are the cubs
      • hmmmok, on 04/14/2008, -3/+2Totally. Is every baseball story about the Cubs ?
      • bigdogbts, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1go ***** yourself. When it's an underdog story about the Red Sucks, it's fine, but God forbid anyone root for the cubs.
    • wild, on 04/14/2008, -1/+6I'll tell you what is buried there. The hopes and dreams of the fans...
  • 22justin, on 04/14/2008, -48/+20who cares baseball is the most boring sport. sorry but its true
  • moolaismyfriend, on 04/14/2008, -39/+3Ohh how pleasent is that.

    And other workers, who I pay through my taxes, dig mass graves in Baghdad.

    America... ***** yeah, coming again to save the mother ***** day yay!
    • AMACTASTIC, on 04/14/2008, -2/+21Buried for misspelling of pleasant,
      bringing politics into a non-political story,
      and misquoting the Team America song. It's not "yay". It's "yeah."
      • moolaismyfriend, on 04/14/2008, -14/+1Thanks *****, its always great to see the superior internet police patrolling Digg as to fill the void in your real life.

        LOL
        • AussieFox, on 04/14/2008, -2/+10Buried for the use of LOL when you would not have actually been 'laughing out loud'
  • Chrispyc1211, on 04/14/2008, -13/+5Augh, they should have made him dig it out himself.
  • UtahApocalyse, on 04/14/2008, -1/+24Digging out concrete in a stadium in New York...... Did they find Hoffa?
    • willsani, on 04/14/2008, -1/+3That would be the race track, oh wait, I meant some Corn field in Michigan.
    • bingobongony, on 04/14/2008, -0/+4Jimmy Hoffa's only been missing for about a year? I think someone would have noticed him if his body was lying in the parking lot where the new stadium is not being built
    • politik192, on 04/14/2008, -0/+6The stadium you're thinking about is in New Jersey.
    • womanforchange, on 04/14/2008, -2/+2Hoffa was WEARING the jersey!!
  • Schmapdi, on 04/14/2008, -2/+55Sports fans are a funny sort about things like this it seems. Then again maybe I'm just bitter because I'm a music fan and haven't been able to successfully curse "Nickleback" yet.
    • jaydoj, on 04/14/2008, -1/+4Patience, patience, it'll happen.
    • pixelate, on 04/14/2008, -2/+3Maybe it's because you keep misspelling their name when you send them chain letters or whatever.

      "Nickel"
  • orangester, on 04/14/2008, -7/+127Charging a man with a criminal act for putting a "curse" on the Yankees?
    Are they that ***** stupid?
    • jarrod10, on 04/14/2008, -6/+37exactly how is it a criminal act to bury a shirt in concrete at a stadium?
      • ohhaiitsryan, on 04/14/2008, -2/+23is it even possible to legally charge someone for a "curse"?
        • nymphetamine, on 04/14/2008, -1/+11Hey, this is America!
        • Abomonog, on 04/14/2008, -3/+1And witchcraft believe it or not, is still illegal.
        • floorman56, on 04/14/2008, -2/+2God doesn't exist...But a hex does? They spent $50,000 getting this out!!! ...Because of ...Magic ?? WTF?
      • insomniac8400, on 04/14/2008, -9/+8It pretty much could be considered a terrorist act. Placing random items in concrete. It could weaken the concrete.
        • UncleCrapper, on 04/14/2008, -1/+4So Tony Soprano is a terrorist. Who knew!
      • robbob, on 04/14/2008, -0/+3The shirts not up to code.
    • MrBucket777, on 04/14/2008, -15/+7I would think it would be more along the lines of intentionally weakening the concrete. You don't mess around with the safety a huge building that is going to hold thousands of people. Plus he was not doing his job properly.
      • Ajajadude, on 04/14/2008, -3/+20While I'm no structural engineer, I am a member of Digg, so drawing on my obvious knowledge and expertise, I do not believe a shirt will have any sort of significant impact upon the structural integrity of the block of concrete.
      • charlie55, on 04/14/2008, -0/+8concrete always has ***** in it. water bottles, trash, various crap. it is concrete, it doesnt care. you mix it up with rocks and *****.
    • EmitStop, on 04/14/2008, -2/+11I guess it could be considered littering.
    • ShadowMagic, on 04/14/2008, -3/+12for tampering. As a worker on a site you can't mess around.
      • womanforchange, on 04/14/2008, -0/+15As if stuff doesn't get dropped into concrete all the time...hard hats lunch boxes, tools, Jimmy Hoffa...
        • yeti22, on 04/14/2008, -1/+2Doing it deliberately is a different matter.
        • NSMike, on 04/14/2008, -1/+2This is true. I never hear about them going into concrete when guys have fallen in during the pouring.
        • wild, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2Dugg for making Hoffa relevant again.
    • koft, on 04/14/2008, -1/+2Yes, it's baseball.
    • milkham, on 04/14/2008, -0/+11He's a terrorist, obviously.
    • womanforchange, on 04/14/2008, -0/+3Well, if they launder the shirt and send it to the Jimmy Fund, they won't have the evidence to charge him with a crime.
    • Zera, on 04/14/2008, -1/+3Hey, I say let the prosecution try to prove he put a curse on them........ all mankind will benefit when they rewrite physics with evidence of the supernatural.
    • yeti22, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1He hasn't been charged with a crime.
    • Prod_Deity, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1"Charging a man with a criminal act for putting a "curse" on the Yankees?
      Are they that ***** stupid?"

      Your answer is in the first sentence....
  • pe5t1lence, on 04/14/2008, -3/+57I thought this would be a link to the Onion!
  • diskit, on 04/14/2008, -7/+12I can't help but wonder
    1: did they really dig up and find the shirt, or if they just lied and said they did
    2: how many other shirts are there that they don't know about
    3: how many more shirts will there be in the future
    • draftingtableX, on 04/14/2008, -1/+4The dug and found it. It was on the nightly news in NY...unless of course it was all staged. Although, I don't think the Army Corps and their ground-penetrating radar (or whatever they used) would have been called in if it were fake.
    • Ajajadude, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2I saw video of them digging it up. Could've been staged, who knows.
    • charlie55, on 04/14/2008, -0/+19most stadiums are around 40% shirts
  • yellowfish04, on 04/14/2008, -1/+27"On Saturday, construction workers who remembered the employee, Gino Castignoli, phoned in tips about the shirt's location."
    Wow, way to put the guy's name in the article! He'll be lucky to be alive one month from now..
    • bingobongony, on 04/14/2008, -1/+7He made his name public himself.
    • bxblox, on 04/14/2008, -1/+6He probably shouldnt work in the bronx anymore...
  • DjViral, on 04/14/2008, -1/+29dugg for the proper spelling of dig
    • anarchyinthekr, on 04/14/2008, -1/+7wow dig looks weird with only one g
  • 22magnum, on 04/14/2008, -2/+18I think they are taking this a little to seriously. I mean, could they use any more "verys" when describing what happened? Its not like the guy buried a pipe bomb in the dug out.
    • ryryindo, on 04/14/2008, -1/+10pipe bomb....
      now there's a curse.
    • jarrod10, on 04/14/2008, -1/+7exactly i don't get why the hell its such a big deal.
    • bxblox, on 04/14/2008, -1/+5If it was the fan of any other team they probably wouldnt care... but its boston... yankees no like boston.... not at all.
    • gamename14, on 04/14/2008, -2/+1someone call homeland security, I think he's trying to tell us that he buried a pipe bomb in the dug out
  • mh732, on 04/14/2008, -15/+7Lets go Mets!
  • Jovensdesciple, on 04/14/2008, -18/+31New Yorkers should dig to get rid of their snobby attitudes. Dig deep assholes.
  • ridestp, on 04/14/2008, -6/+70Wow, the Yankee's are taking this WAY to seriously. Criminal charges for a "very, very bad thing"? Give me a break.
    • ohhaiitsryan, on 04/14/2008, -1/+3this is why the only hank and hal i will ever take seriously come together on my local fox broadcast between 5 and 6 o'clock
    • Baskins, on 04/14/2008, -4/+1Agreed. However, if he dropped it into some load-bearing section possibly putting the integrity at risk then his ass should fry for negligence. But if he just dropped it into some harmless area of the flooring then criminal charges are overdoing it IMO.
  • chrisaug18, on 04/14/2008, -4/+24overreact much?
    • charlie55, on 04/14/2008, -5/+2that doesnt make any sense.
    • lazlonger, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2same jerks that say this now would be laughing and claiming some sort of asinine victory had the Yankees left the shirt knowing it was there. classic no win situation brought about by a failed attempt at oneupmanship.
  • Misinformant, on 04/14/2008, -9/+4Ortiz can't hit for *****.

    If he pulls out his slump; re-bury it.
  • bedake, on 04/14/2008, -1/+13Wow I really hope this guy doesnt get in trouble over something as trivial as this.
    • draftingtableX, on 04/14/2008, -3/+6Rumor is the worker's being fired, or maybe just removed from that project. If that's true, it's completely messed up.
      • bingobongony, on 04/14/2008, -0/+7He only worked one day on the project to begin with. A long time ago.
  • jmpeagle, on 04/14/2008, -3/+26wow...I like how the yankees were worried enough about a supernatural curse to spend money on digging up an article of clothing from inside concrete.
    • phantomc0d3r, on 04/14/2008, -2/+7They didn't really care, its more of a media stunt than anything. And the cost of that little section of cement is nothing to the Yankees with all their money.
    • hammburglar, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2oh it only took 5 hours to dig up because it was under a shallow 2 feet of concrete. lighten up.
    • bxblox, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1The cost of digging through a few feet of cement isnt a huge concern to the yankees...
    • yacks, on 04/14/2008, -0/+11In other news, sand mixed with the new cement came from an ancient Indian burial site.
  • TWiThead, on 04/14/2008, -3/+9Burying the t-shirt was wrong, but Randy Levine is making it out to be some sort of egregious sin. It was just a stupid prank. To listen to Levine, you'd almost think that the construction worker used the shirt to smother a puppy and buried *that* in the stadium.
  • eean, on 04/14/2008, -3/+6Superstition reigns supreme apparently. :(
    Reminds me of the report recently of a women being sentenced to death for witchcraft. What "very bad thing" was burying a shirt going to do?
  • Bossman1086, on 04/14/2008, -2/+18I think it's hilarious because just two days ago, the Yankees had a spokesman say that it wasn't true and pretty much that they didn't care....yet they just spent 5 hours digging it out and are thinking of pressing charges. Sounds like they did care to me...
  • CaptainChad, on 04/14/2008, -2/+6I thought this was a joke, worthy of The Onion, but it looks like it's real.
  • pond70, on 04/14/2008, -8/+2 - i dont know whats more amazing this 'marketing' news spot or people still watch baseball .... holy crap !
  • euphioquestion, on 04/14/2008, -1/+6The dude was from the Bronx.

    I am not sure, but I think treason is still punishable by death.
  • draftingtableX, on 04/14/2008, -1/+2I find it hard to take Yankees administration seriously when they politicize their labor practices: “We take great pride in hiring Bronx residents,” Levine said. “He abused the privilege.” (NY Times)

    There aren't many realistic alternatives to local labor, when so many people have objected to the new stadium since its inception.
    • bxblox, on 04/14/2008, -1/+2They got rid of the track and tennis courts and half of a public park and replaced with with that little astroturf ***** under the highway....
  • pudgyv, on 04/14/2008, -0/+9His co-workers thank him for the 5 hours of overtime.

    /and they say Red Sox fans are stupidstitious
  • AsylumAleikum, on 04/14/2008, -9/+12Yankee fans are stupid beyond redemption.
  • bingobongony, on 04/14/2008, -4/+15Everything about this story is stupid. The fact that they dug it up was stupid. The fact that they talk about pressing charges against him is stupid. And the fact that this idiot couldn't keep his mouth shut for 11 more months where they really COULDN'T have done anything about it is the icing on the stupidity cake.
  • ThinkIcouldburn, on 04/14/2008, -3/+1Coincidence that David Ortiz has been terrible so far this season?
  • icefairy17, on 04/14/2008, -6/+6That guy is my hero.
  • cadmiumpaint, on 04/14/2008, -4/+5Once Yankee stadium gets torn down, the Yankees will be cursed for quite a while...all them ghosts will be pissed off.
    • politik192, on 04/14/2008, -1/+6oh yeah...because the ghosts are too lazy to cross the street
  • rmontero, on 04/14/2008, -11/+9F U C K the Yankees.
  • adammharvey, on 04/14/2008, -1/+2that guys got some balls
  • duggdowncatisad, on 04/14/2008, -7/+12YANKEES SUCK
  • Farmer77, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1If he was able to place the jersey there in the first place, that means he opened his big mouth and told people about it.
  • kahrytan, on 04/14/2008, -8/+1...baseball sucks....
  • Jalh, on 04/14/2008, -0/+3....Trost said the Yankees had discussed possible criminal charges against Castignoli with the district attorney's office.
    "We will take appropriate action since fortunately we do know the name of the individual," he said.....

    wow , incredible
  • littlegraydude, on 04/14/2008, -0/+8thats like when that rink maintenance guy at the Salt Lake City 2002 olympics put a Canadian loonie under center ice... won it all, too!
  • craighoxton, on 04/14/2008, -0/+5They do this in the UK too! But it's usually a prank done by construction workers, burying the soccer jersey of a rival team in the foundations.
  • craighoxton, on 04/14/2008, -1/+2They do this in the UK too! But it's usually a prank done by construction workers, burying the soccer jersey of a rival team in the foundations.
  • Flushnasty, on 04/14/2008, -2/+11Very very bad thing......

    lets get one thing straight. Rape is a very bad thing, aids is a very bad thing, GWB is very bad thing.

    This isn't a very bad thing. Its a harmless prank.

    Oh and one more very very bad thing. Destroying balance of baseball. Imagine if baseball had a salary cap....LOL they would suck so bad. ***** the Yankees and George.
  • drewlew, on 04/14/2008, -1/+7This is good for baseball. I'm not a fan, but seeing this level of irrational devotion to your team makes me want to watch it.
  • mrhedges, on 04/14/2008, -1/+1Jesus... maybe they should calm the hell down? How was this a "very, very bad" act? It's fabric, it's not a bomb.
  • Mpwns, on 04/14/2008, -1/+1Criminal charges on this guy means the yankies will be cursed even longer. at most they can get him for littering since he basicly did just that.
  • partrow, on 04/14/2008, -5/+1Have you ever heard of an entertainment type that is more riddled by superstition than baseball? Perhaps this is because so many of the players (and watchers) are uninformed and poorly educated. The players spit a lot, too - in public.
    • Naturalistic, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2Only a supremely idiotic person could make such an and ignorant broad statement over a bunch of random people he has never even come into contact with.

      You sir are a moron.
  • rockhell, on 04/14/2008, -10/+9***** THE YANKEES!!!

    RED SOX NATION!
    • hmmmok, on 04/14/2008, -1/+2rockhell: Hey Ma! They're talking 'bout the Yankees on DIGG! Yankees SUCK!

      rockhell's ma: Will you get out the basement and get some sun? Time to get a life, dear.
    • yanksase, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2Red Sox Nation has got to be the gayest term ever created. Bunch of band wagon fans....
    • hope4god, on 04/15/2008, -0/+0Rockhell your Red Suxs arent that great shake yourself................................................
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