Wouldn't a sock have been more appropriate?

I think its common knowledge that many people involved in baseball (players, coaches, fans) have lots of superstitions about the sport. Apparently, that includes belief in cursed items, specifically jerseys.

After Yankee officials learned that a construction worker, who is a Boston Red Sox fan, buried a Red Sox jersey in the concrete of the under-construction Yankee stadium, team management had this reaction:

Yankees President Randy Levine said team officials at first considered leaving the shirt where it was.

"The first thought was, you know, it's never a good thing to be buried in cement when you're in New York," Levine said. "But then we decided, why reward somebody who had really bad motives and was trying to do a really bad thing?"

Yes, a really bad thing like trying to . . . CURSE THE YANKEES!! Woooooooo!!!

So, rather than make a joke of it, turning the buried shirt into a rallying symbol that the Yankees could cite whenever they won a game at home and thus stick it to the Red Sox, they decided the risk of a curse was too much to bear. They've spent thousands of dollars jackhammering the floor and digging up the shirt.

What's more, they're now they're considering criminal charges for a silly juvenile act which caused no actual harm. The shirt didn't impact the construction at all. It didn't weaken the floor or cause any damage whatsoever. The Yankees are the morons who tore up a perfectly good concrete floor to remove the shirt.

What century is this again?