Yankees Prevent Curse Far Worse Than The Bambino’s

In the greatest Yankee save since Derek Jeter’s backhand toss threw out Jeremy Giambi in 2001, the team yesterday unearthed a Red Sox jersey from the site of the still-being-built new Yankee Stadium. In a scene reminiscent of Geraldo opening Al Capone’s vault, TV lights illuminated men in hardhats jackhammering away at a section of the foundation where a David Ortiz jersey had been mixed in the concrete by Gino Castignoli, a Massachusetts-born construction worker who is missing and presumed drunk off his ass somewhere in Wrentham.

“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.

On Sunday, Levine and Yankees CEO Lonn Trost watched as Gramarossa and foreman Rich Corrado finished the job and pulled the shirt from the rubble.In shreds from the jackhammers, the shirt still bore the letters “Red Sox” on the front. It was a David Ortiz jersey, No. 34.

With the way Ortiz has been hitting so far this season, maybe being so closely associated with the Yankees put a curse on him. If he goes on a tear after this, we’ll be visiting our local santinero more often.
Yankees will donate once-buried Red Sox jersey to Boston-area charity [ESPN]
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