A construction worker’s bid to curse the Yankees by planting a Red Sox jersey in their new stadium was foiled Sunday when the team removed the offending shirt from its burial spot in the ballpark.
After locating the shirt in a service corridor behind what will be a restaurant in the new Yankee Stadium, construction workers jackhammered through the remaining concrete Sunday and pulled it out.
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On Saturday, construction workers who remembered the employee—Gino Castignoli—phoned in tips about the shirt’s location.
“We had anonymous people come tell us where it was and we were able to find it,” said Frank Gramarossa, a project executive with Turner Construction, the general contractor on the site.
It took about five hours of drilling Saturday to locate the shirt under 2 feet of concrete, he said.
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[Yankees COO, Lonn] 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.
Seriously, if there are Yankees fans dumb enough to believe in curses, especially one so arbitrary as burying the jersey of a player who likely won't even make the Hall of Fame, then they should foot the bill for a couple hours of labour to remove the offending article that would have otherwise gone unnoticed. What the hell are you going to charge the guy with?
Sure the construction company he works/worked for has grounds for dismissal cause he obviously wasn't working as hard as he could be, but criminal charges? Yankees organization, this is why people hate you. You blow a harmless prank out of proportion for no good reason. You need to get over yourselves and stop signing egocentric old men, then maybe your team wouldn't be losing out to Boston so often.