Are We Ruled by Superstition Here in the United States?

This past Sunday, April 13th, this story was reported on Yahoo! News:

A construction worker’s bid to curse the New York Yankees by planting a Boston Red Sox jersey in their new stadium was foiled Sunday when the home team removed the offending shirt from its burial spot.

After locating the shirt in a service corridor behind what will be a restaurant in the new Yankee Stadium, construction workers jackhammered through the concrete Sunday and pulled it out.

Yankees President Randy Levine described the Red Sox fan as “…somebody who had really bad motives and was trying to do a really bad thing…”
Now, Levine and Yankees CEO Lonn Trost have begun to “[discuss] possible criminal charges against [the culprit] with the district attorney’s office.”

Wait…What?

A disgruntled, Red Sox-supporting construction worker buried some clothes beneath a baseball stadium. Was his intent malicious? Quite possibly. But isn’t anyone going to point out that the act of burying a shirt in concrete WILL NOT CAUSE A SPORT’S TEAM TO ACTUALLY LOSE GAMES? Curses should have gone out with King Tut’s tomb—do we really need to concern ourselves with this lunacy here in the 21st century?

Luckily, “a spokesman for Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson said Sunday he did not know whether any criminal charges might apply.” At least someone is still exercising some sense.

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