Yankees foil 'curse' attempt at stadium (AP)

 
So much for the curse. The New York Yankees have ended a construction worker's attempt to jinx their new stadium with a buried Boston Red Sox jersey. Team officials watched Sunday as construction workers removed the jersey, with slugger David Ortiz's name on it, from 2 feet of concrete in a service corridor of the stadium that's under construction. [link]

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Report: Yanks unearth BoSox shirt in new stadium

A construction worker and Boston fan working on the concrete crew at the $1.3 billion new Yankee Stadium buried a Red Sox shirt in with the concrete foundation in the hopes of jinxing the Yankees' new home, the New York Post reported.
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Curse attempt foiled

New York Yankees officials have foiled the attempt by a moronic construction worker ( a Boston Red Sox fan) and removed the David Ortiz jersey that was placed underneath concrete at the new Stadium. Fortunately for the construction worker he might be in a bunch of legal problems now for the prank.
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Yanks unearth Red Sox T-shirt, replace it with Kyle Farnsworth

Paranoid that a wily Red Sox fan had managed to curse his team, New York Yankees’ owner Hank Steinbrenner paid constructions workers to unearth a surreptitiously buried Red Sox T-shirt from beneath the visitors’ dugout at the new Yankee Stadium and had it replaced with the body of Yankee reliever Kyle Farnsworth, who’s been dead to Yankee fans for several years.
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More about this stupid T-shirt “curse”

Most fans felt the story of the Red Sox shirt embedded in the concrete slab of the visitor’s clubhouse at the New Stadium was just a laughable “exclusive” by the Post that was a few days late for April’s Fools. Turns out the ...
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NY Yankees unearth buried Red Sox jersey from new stadium - MLB - Yahoo! Sports

NEW YORK (AP)—A construction worker’s bid to curse the New York Yankees by planting a Boston Red Sox jersey in their new stadium was foiled Sunday when the home team removed the offending shirt from its burial spot. After locating the shirt in a ...
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