This Time, The Curse Is On You, New York
Friday, April 11, 2008 at 02:34PM Aaron Gettings 
An unnamed construction worker in New York is the newest star of the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry.
Working on the concrete crew building the new Yankee Stadium, this blue-collared hero, in one swift move, may have placed The Curse of Red Sox Nation upon the Yankee’s new home before it's even built.
A devilish Boston fan working on a concrete crew at the $1.3 billion stadium covertly buried a Red Sox T-shirt under what will become the visiting team's locker room to jinx the Yanks, two construction workers told The Post yesterday.
"In August, a Red Sox T-shirt was poured in a slab in the visitor's clubhouse. It's the curse of the Yankees," one worker said. "Nobody knows about it. It's in the floors, it's buried."
While not everyone believes in these “curses”, it’s hard to argue with the results. Most everybody knows of The Curse of the Bambino, or the Billy Goat curse on the Cubs.
"Curses start off very easily. It's all the power of suggestion and they take on a life of their own," said Dan Gordon, co-author of the 2007 book "Haunted Baseball."
Mickey Bradley, co-author of "Haunted Baseball," said a worker is said to have buried an unknown good-luck charm in a water main trench of the current Yankee Stadium back in 1920… "Prior to that, they never they won a World Series," he said.
"I think there is a curse in effect already. Maybe the Red Sox T-shirt is like the icing on the cake, a nice little F-you from Boston," said Peter Nash, author of "Boston's Royal Rooters," a history of Red Sox fans.
For the rest of eternity, just a few feet below the Yankees’ stadium, will reside a bright red beacon of the turning of the tides of this heated rivalry. Although it’s just a t-shirt, it represents much, much more. We now have the upper-hand over New York. We now have the more-powerful fan base. Oh yeah, we also have 2 World Series wins in the past 4 years. The Yankees? They have A-Rod.
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