Disgruntled Fan Syndrome

Don't Mess with Construction Workers who are serious baseball fans . . .

Disgruntled Fan Syndrome, or DFS, occurs when hardcore fans of a certain team go crazy when their team loses, often making rather insane acts look enticing. It's not about turning buses over anymore, people. That was so last month. This time, it's all about the curses. A construction worker working on the Yankees new stadium decided that he didn't like the team he was building for . . . a lot. I don't know if there was a barefoot, warted, ancient looking witch named Matilda involved, but this guy decided he was going to bury a Red Sox shirt under the new Yankees stadium and somehow equate that to a curse. Apparently, he was out of goat eyes, bat teeth, and formaldehyde.

Another worker found the shirt and pulled it out before informing the New York Times . . . which is how the Yankees found out about it. But what does Yankees President Randy Levine think about the whole matter?

"The first thought was, you know, it's never a good thing to be buried in cement when you're in New York. {Really, now? Is this common? And what about outside of New York?} But then we decided, 'Why reward somebody who had really bad motives and was trying to do a really bad thing?'"

To make a long story short, he thinks it's really bad. He also said they considered leaving the shirt at first. Double snap with a side of yo mama!

But the workers who noticed the shirt remembered the jerk, err, fellow employee, and turned him in to the paper. No word on whether he'll be the fan Piñata for the opening game at the new stadium. But how long did it take to get the shirt out? Though it was only buried under 2 feet of concrete, it took 5 hours worth of drilling. Now that's determination!

The Yankees are rightfully considering criminal charges against the man, saying they're discussing the matter with a district attorney. Reporters tried to get in touch with the man, but some woman kept answering the phone and covering for him by saying he wasn't there. Of course he's not there. He has people to hide from, like lawyers, fans, the mafia . . .

But the now shredded shirt of David Ortiz is going to a good cause, as the Yankees have decided to give it to a worthwhile charity, hopefully sans curse. The shirt will be auctioned off at the Jimmy Fund, a charity which is affiliated with the Dana-Farber Cancer institute in Boston. No word yet on how high a tattered, dirty, cursed shirt sells for. Levine continued his “very bad” spiel and even stepped it up a notch by saying, "Hopefully the Jimmy Fund will auction it off and we'll take the act that was a very, very bad act and turn it into something beautiful.”

Erm . . . yeah.

- Heather Akena

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