Now I understand that NYC is the media capital of the world. If you count the Post, there are approximately 300 daily papers in the city, of which only the New York Times could be actually considered a legitimate news source. Being such, the folks who keep track of whats going on in the City tend to be ready to jump on any sort of good story, even if seems made up. Sports are not immune. And the teams of NY have done their best to keep the back covers filled with zaniness. They have hit their own teammates with golf clubs, tossed bleach at people, refused to shave sideburns, and agreed to shave their goatees. They have been in Texas style bar fights, on field broo ha has, and old school pitcher vs pitching coach rivalry brawls. They’ve set their equipment on fire, gotten drunk, high, played that way, gone to jail, gotten out and gone back in. And in all of this, none of it quite tops making up a curse and having a part of your stadium dug up. Not even rumors of decapitated kittens (false ones) or anything involving Mackey Sasser.
Now I’m not saying that someone across the city is lying. I’m just saying that…well ok, I guess I probably am saying that. My bad. It just seems all so….fake. Manufactured. Made up. Fabricated. Cheesie day time tv. A Boston fan hired to work on Yankee stadium, no one noticed that? No one noticed him burying a jersey? He went to all that trouble then told people? Then he told them exactly where it was buried?
Plus it was a Ortiz jersey. Those are expensive. All jerseys are expensive. It will cost you $100 to get a John Maine jersey, who is slightly less famous than Ortiz. Who’s just tossing one of those away, just to spite the Yankees? Maybe if I got a used Bobby Bo Jersey off ebay for $5 (including shipping), I’d be willing to toss it away to spite the Phils, but even that seems like a lot of effort.
I think when all is said and done, we’ll eventually find out that there was some bad concrete in that section of the stadium, or someone read the blue prints wrong and corrections had to be made. Rather than admit the mistake, some PR guy made up a story about a construction worker and a curse. I can’t say I blame him, I’ve had several dates that end that way.
