Of course they were going to dig it up. Why would the Yankees want a Red Sox shirt buried in their brand spanking new stadium when they could dig it up now and hopefully charge the dumbass who buried it the cost of digging it upo?
Fine, whatever, 20 years is still long enough. I'm only old enough to always remember hearing it. As for the bat thing, it was all over the news here. It was celebrated by "Red Sox Nation". It was also re-celebrated when it "led" to the Sox beating the Yankees. Let's not play revisionist, okay? It's all superstition, and it's all part of the rivalry. It's all silly, but it is part of what makes the rivalry the greatest in sports.
Revisionist Alio? C'mon give me a break. A tad dramatic aren't you. Yes, it is part of the rivalry and is why I'm getting such a kick out of it. The whole thing is pathetic but hilarious. One guy want to jinx the Yankees so he puts a jersey into the foundation of their new stadium. Yankees fans and personnel get so up in arms over it they spend $50k to dig it up then call the construction workers who tipped them off as to where the jersey is "hero's". Then they want to sue the worker for the money they spent digging it up - when clearly they didn't have to dig it up.
Calling them heroes is ridiculous.But unless that jersey was in the work order to be part of the stadium,the worker deserves punishment. He had no right to do that. Was it that big of a deal or did it compromise the structure,no. But he still had no right to do it. Now he will learn his lesson.
Just like no one had to break a bat swung by the great Ruth into splinters. It's all retarded. I wonder what the players think about things like this. Guys like Ortiz and Jeter must sit and laugh their asses off. My son almost had a heart attack last night when he saw ARod and Manny shake hands. He looked at me with his jaw hanging open, and asked "Daddy, did you see that?!" I just looked at him, laughed, and said "Buddy, the players don't hate each other like we hate people from Boston". I think he's still trying to wrap his head around that one. :wink:
If a construction worker was putting an addition on your house, and he plastered the inside of all your new drywall with Richard Simmons posters, and then told you what he did, I bet you wouldn't like it. (Or maybe you would... who am I to judge?) But if that was not part of the service that the contractor agreed to provide, and you don't like it, you have grounds to ask the contractor to pay for the removal, regardless of whether or not you can see the posters or whether the addition of the posters is affecting the structural integrity of your house.
a more accurate example may have been a construction worker putting a Richard Simmons poster into the foundation of my new house I'm building. And to answer that, no I wouldn't have them dig it out at their cost. It's a waste of time and energy to even deal with it.
That is your prerogative. My point was only that you do have the right to ask them to remove it at their cost. And you should also keep in mind that it's more than just a house/home. There is iconic significance to the building.
Amazing how no one says it was ridiculous to break Ruth's bat. A relic of baseball history. But the Yankees getting upset about something superstitious (which the game of baseball has vastly had a history of), is ridiculous. If it wasn't a big deal, why'd the guy do it in the first place? If superstitions don't matter, why'd Wade Boggs eat a bucket of fried chicken before every game? Now maybe you aren't superstitious. Personally, I have some. At the same time, I think this thing is silly. However, I don't down the Yankees for digging it up. Why? Because if you do hold onto a superstition, it matters to you. It can affect events surrounding you, though not in some metaphysical manner. The Yankees had every right to demand that the floor be dug up. I'd love to have seen this have happened if the Sox were building a new stadium with a Jeter jersey. The entire Northeast would be up in arms.
You didn't answer his question. :wink: And you didn't tell scene to pike off. Interestingly enough, he was on your side, and he's a Mets fan. :smile:
uh...yikes...I guess, I'm busted. To answer the question..... I'd search every nook and cranny until I found that ferry chowder head and then I would hang him up by his rotting toe nails. After a few days I would then tie him to a desk and have pidgeon teach him the English language for 8 hours a day.
bottom line is that defending your fanbase is generally a bad idea, because both fanbases have done some ridiculously stupid things, if you count each fan as representative of the fanbase.
agreed. He should be punished. But spending thousands of dollars to dig up a stupid shirt is dramatic overkill. I sincerely hope the public doesn't end up paying for crap like this.
