
Wary of a curse on their new $800m (£400m) baseball park, the New York Yankees yesterday dug up a shirt of their arch-rival Boston Red Sox that a construction worker buried in concrete at the site.
The shirt was buried two feet below the surface, behind home plate, by Red Sox fan Gino Castignoli, who told the New York Post he took a job at the site just to "jinx that stadium," and worked only a single day.
The Post last week broke news of the buried jersey, which bears the name and number of Sox power-hitter David Ortiz. The Red Sox and the Yankees are two of the oldest clubs in major league baseball, and their rivalry is one of the oldest and fiercest in American sport.
Being a Yankee fan, I'm glad that jersey is gone.
What does, "Il est dangereux d'avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes accrédités ont tort" mean?
There is more than one translation Zap. 'It is dangerous to be right in things where the experts are wrong' is my literal translation, but it could be 'when people in authority are wrong'. It's a quote from Voltaire.
Thanks for the translation djd. Yes, the danger is there when you go against those who "know".
I just heard on the news that something similar happened in London and that Arsenal's new stadium has some Tottenham memorabilia hidden somewhere in its construction.
Unbelievable. They're going to need armed guards to get all these stadiums built.
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