Published 4/15/2008
at Subway Squawkers - NY Daily News Blogs
I will squawk about tonight’s Yankees’ win in the morning. But I just wanted to say a few more things about this weekend’s Yankees-Red Sox series, as well as discuss the construction worker who buried a David Ortiz jersey in the new Stadium concrete.
I wrote on Monday afternoon that I thought that the authorities ought to lock that jersey guy up and throw away the key. This proved to be quite the controversial statement. Squawker reader NationMember wrote: “Are you serious? Please tell me you we’re fooling around! IT WAS A BLEEPING PIECE OF CLOTHING!!!!”
NationMember, one of my brothers highlighted your post and sent it to me, because he agreed with you, and thought I was a wee bit over the top in my comment! How do you like that?
Anyhow, prankster Gino Castigno wanted to make a spectacle of himself. He wanted the attention. He wanted the headlines. Well, he’s got all the attention in the world now. And I don’t have the least bit of sympathy ...
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"David Ortiz's jersey gets buried at Yankee Stadium and he
bats .070 [3-for 43]. Sounds like we should bury a Manny Ramirez jersey."
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cheer yesterday to any suggestion that rogue construction worker and Red Sox fan Gino Castignoli should be tarred and feathered - or at least prosecuted - for burying a David Ortiz jersey in the ...
