Silliness at the Stadium

You’ve probably heard by now that construction workers at the new Yankee Stadium have dug up a Red Sox jersey that was buried in concrete at the site by a former laborer who roots for Boston.

It took the crew five hours on Saturday to reach the offending shirt and remove it.

Five hours. On a Saturday. At the site of a project funded partially with public money. My point being: Did we pay for this ridiculous endeavor? Did we pay the workers an overtime rate on Saturday because this 'Big Dig' was done on a weekend? If so, I want my money back. Now.

Making this even more absurd is the Yankee organization announcing it’s considering seeking criminal charges against Gino Castignoli, the worker who buried the shirt.

I say "absurd" because I can’t imagine what the guy would be charged with – “Rooting for the Red Sox within the Borough of the Bronx”? – and also because the Yankees’ brass swore up and down last week, after the jersey burial first was reported in the New York Post, that the story was a fabrication.