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Apr 11, 2008 6:41 pm US/Eastern

'Concrete' Evidence: New Yankee Stadium Cursed?

Yankees-Red Sox Storied Rivalry Takes Another Odd Twist

Reporting
Scott Rapoport
BRONX (CBS) ― It's the great debate in the Bronx. Is the new Yankee Stadium now under construction cursed … by the Red Sox???

Some workers at the site say there is "concrete" evidence.

As if Manny Ramirez and "Big Papi" David Ortiz aren't enough of a curse to the Yankees, how about the notion of somebody putting a Sox pox on the new ballpark in the Bronx?

"That's a no-no. Not in our park," one worker said.

A recent report says a construction worker at the new stadium site, who is a Red Sox fan, buried a Boston T-shirt in concrete under the visitor's clubhouse.

When asked who their right mind would do such a thing, the response from Yankees fans were all over the map.

"Some crazy guy. Who knows?" one person said.

"Someone in there is from Boston and someone doesn't want the Yankees to do well," added another.

If true, someone is trying to create perhaps the mother of all curses against the Yankees, similar to Boston's "Curse of the Bambino," when the Red Sox went 86 years without winning the World Series.

Does this sound a bit crazy?

"I know they're looking around trying to find the spot where this took place," said Butch Keane of Sheet Metal Workers Local 28. "They are looking for the shirt."

It is the talk amongst the construction workers on the site. Get this:

If need be they're gonna bust open the concrete to get that shirt and retrieve it. That's what they are saying," Keane said.

However, that's not what the Yankees are saying. A club spokesperson denies the story.

"We're not digging up the concrete. There is no Red Sox shirt in the concrete."

Still, the buzz persists at the site, and if true the Sox shirt saga would become the most celebrated stadium burial since rumors of Jimmy Hoffa's alleged entombment in the end zone at Giants Stadium in the 1970s.

Of course, all this is playing out as the Yanks and the Sox are set to square off for the first time this year, starting Friday night in Boston.

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