Report: Sox shirt buried at Yankee Stadium
A construction worker with a rooting interest in the Red Sox buried a Red Sox shirt in with the concrete foundation under what will become the visitors’ clubhouse in the new $1.3 billion Yankee Stadium, two construction workers told the New York Post Wednesday.
“In August, a Red Sox T-shirt was poured in a slab in the visitor’s clubhouse. It’s the curse of the Yankees,” one worker told the Post. “Nobody knows about it. It’s in the floors, it’s buried.”
The Post is witholding the identities of the two workers, who are not allowed to speak to the media. One of the workers feared that the burying of the shirt may place some kind of hex on the Bronx Bombers.
“I don’t want to be responsible for sinking the franchise,” the second worker told the Post. “I respect the stadium.”
Through a spokesman, the Yankees denied Friday that a shirt was ever buried in the concrete of the new stadium.
“We noticed that the [New York] Post wrote a fun and interesting story about a T-shirt today — but it never happened,” the Yankees told ESPN.com in a statement. “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.”
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