Rivalry Miscellany
Item #1: The Bird Attack I was remiss in not covering the now famous hawk attack at Fenway. If you haven't heard the story, a red-tailed hawk (Get it? Red tail? Red Sox???) swooped down on a young student who was taking the Fenway Park tour and drew some blood, though the girl was not seriously injured. The girl's name? Alexa Rodriguez. Her age? 13, which happens to be A-Rod's number. It has since been disclosed that her friends do in fact call her A-Rod. Coincidence? Probably. Good story? Heck, yeah!
Item #2: The Papi Jersey Seems a curse-loving construction worker buried a David Ortiz jersey (not the t-shirt shown above) somewhere under the new Yankee Stadium last August. A spokesperson for the Bombers chalked it up to an April Fool's joke, but it appears that risking any "curse talk" beyond the Curse of A-Rod and the newly departed Curse of Mattingly was more than Yankees brass were willing to endure. Workers unearthed the jersey after jackhammering a two-foot by three-foot hole in the freshly cemented ground. I must say that while I think Hank Steinbrenner is a shadow of the powerhouse owner his dad was, this quote is priceless: "I hope his co-workers kick the [expletive] out of him."
Little Steinbrenner's got spunk!
I am just worried that the curse is on Ortiz! He is not hitting at all. Hopefully he can have a 4-4 game tonight!
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Hey clubhousemanager,
Your comment does not in any way reference the blog post. It just seems like you're here only for self-promotion, which makes your entry borderline spam. I'll leave it for now, but as a general rule, trolls and spammers are not welcome here.
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Very funny Joe. One in every crowd...
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I agree with the first comment. It seems that any Ortiz curse may have backfired onto Ortiz given his slump as of late.
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OK, let's not get "curse crazy." That jersey's been in there since August, yet Ortiz and Co. won it all last year. Case closed.
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The construction worker who buried the shirt used to be a low-level mob guy, so now they're calling this incident "The Curse of the Gambino"- eh, you got a problem with that?
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Hey I'm 100% Sicilian. No problem with that at all.
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Spoilsport. But I do agree... it just seems with the long run of Red Sox not winning takes a lot of, well, shall we say, legend out of rooting for the Red Sox.
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