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As always, The Onion gets it right
Published 4/17/2008 by Ben K. at River Avenue Blues » River Avenue Blues, A New York Yankees Blog
... Yankees bury Bernie Williams under new stadium for good luck: “By giving Bernie this chance, we have once again proven why we are the classiest organization in all of sports,” Yankees President Randy Leving said to The Onion. “Lesser teams would have overreacted to this whole curse thing and buried Derek Jeter.” ...

Create The Caption #201
Published 4/17/2008 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
... Chone "You no help me now, I say fuck you, Jobu, I do it myself."- Ross (Too many funny ones to include. Great job everyone.) _______________________________________ Are you funny enough to create a caption for this photo of Melo and A.I. during last night's Nuggets game? Daily Links: Screw The Washington Post (KSK) Isiah Gone And Mark Jackson Leaves YES (NY Post) Yanks Bury Bernie Williams In Foundation For Good Luck (The Onion) The Garbage Pail Kids Were ...

Save Bernie!
Published 4/17/2008 by Russianator at Three Idiots on Sports
Great find by friend of T3I Dan - according to the Onion, Bernie Williams, the greatest centerfielder who ever wore glasses and played classical guitar, is in trouble.

Give up and sign Manny
Published 4/17/2008 by Peter Abraham at The LoHud Yankees Blog
... Mike Mussina last week what the Yankees have done to try and stop this. “Everything,” he said. “Nothing works.” Check out Manny’s career splits page at Baseball-Reference.com: He’s .320/.408/.615 in 193 career games against the Yankees and .319/.397/.597 at Yankee Stadium. A .408 career OPB against one team? That is not a small sample size, either. ———— Is it wrong that I laughed at this from The Onion? Yes, but it really is funny. ...

Yanks Bury Bernie Under New Stadium For Luck
Published 4/17/2008 by YankeeGM at Yankee GM Blog
... From one of my favorite sites on the web, The Onion. Read the story here.

Yankees Bury Bernie Under Stadium For Good Luck
Published 4/17/2008 by Mark M. at The Bronx Stop: A Yankees Blog
From The Onion, hat tip to Peter Abraham: Citing a need for physical and spiritual cleansing after a Boston Red Sox fan entombed a David Ortiz jersey in the floor of the new facility, the New York Yankees buried former centerfielder Bernie Williams under 4,650 pounds of concrete Wednesday in the foundation of the new Yankee Stadium for good luck. According to team sources, the instant the 39-year-old Williams was completely submerged in the rapidly setting structural material, stopping his voice as his lungs and mouth filled with concrete, the sun ...

The Last Word On Jerseygate
Published 4/17/2008 by attackgerbil at YFSF
... No more need be said after this.

Yankees Bury Bernie?
Published 4/17/2008 by Andrew Beaton at Hot Foot
... In a parody of that story, humor newspaper The Onion wrote an article titled, “Yankees Bury Bernie Williams Under New Stadium for Good Luck.” ...

But what do you have to say about…THIS!?
Published 4/18/2008 by fynalcut at The FynalCut
... For a good majority of this week, the focus of my conversations with BabyJ has been the ridiculousness of the NBA MVP coverage. It’s come up a scary number of times. Today, a major media outlet (that we enjoy greatly) gave its take on the shitstorm. We battled the depression with Onion clips like this and this. I would say everyone’s pretty used to critiques on the media. But in one week, it couldn’t get any ...

The Onion: Yankees Bury Bernie Williams Under New Stadium For Good Luck
Published 4/18/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
The Onion: Yankees Bury Bernie Williams Under New Stadium For Good Luck Whatever it takes, right? Now, we’re not necessarily hoping that having him in the foundation will mean our outfielders will start throwing like Bernie, our hitters will begin hitting like him, or our faster baserunners will start running like him,” Yankees first-year coach Joe Girardi said. Coach, manager, what’s the difference? “This is what it means to be a lifelong Yankgluh [sic],” Williams attempted to add. I admit that I laughed.

Digging further?
Published 4/18/2008 by Dave & Aziz Nekoukar at NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees
... story cracked us up: Yankees Bury Bernie Williams Under New Stadium For Good Luck . The "quotes" from Girardi and Williams are classic, but the picture is even better (found ...

You find out who your friends are
Published 4/19/2008 by Chad Finn at Chad Finn's Touching All The Bases
... This is easily my favorite Onion item since . . . well, since the last column by Jim Anchower, probably. The strange thing is, Williams actually looked like he was encased in cement his last few seasons in center field. ...

Yankees comic relief
Published 4/19/2008 by Mark Serio at BASEBALL HOT CORNER
Yankees fans looking for some comic relief from last night's debacle, can find some here: The Onion answers the question, "Whatever happened to Bernie Williams." LaTroy Hawkins having an Igawaesque impact on the pitching staff gets a new number.

TOP 12 ITEMS THAT ARE ALSO BURIED UNDER THE NEW YANKEE STADIUM
Published 5/21/2008 by DMtShooter (noreply@blogger.com) at Epic Carnival - Pop Culture, Sports, Celebrities, Babes, Rumors, Innuendo
by DMtShooter, Five Tool Tool According to the remarkably publicity-shy constructon worker who buried the Ortiz jersey, there are more artifacts under the new Stadium concrete. Here's a (so long as the media keeps calling, partial) list. 12. Any chance of spending less than $50 to see a game 11. Any remaining hope that Kei Igawa's contract isn't a complete flush 10. Bernie Williams 9. The bodies of dozens of MLB league officials who favored real revenue sharing and a salary cap 8. The real victims of 9/11 ...

Epic Drop: Top 12 Items That Are Also Buried Under Yankee Stadium
Published 5/21/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (DMtShooter) at Five Tool Tool - The Sports Blog That Loves You Back
Your list is here, and if you didn't catch the Onion piece in which Bernie Williams makes the ultimate sacrifice, that's over here. Oh, and the 12-2 loss tonight at the Stadium to the historic whipped animal that is Daniel Cabrera? The same Daniel Cabrera that never beats the Yankees, because he's got bad control and they make you throw strikes? The same Orioles that never show any balls, but watched Cabrera hit Derek Jeter and force him out of the game? Heh. Like we're buying the idea that the Yankees won't just turn this on. Suuuurrrreeee.... ...