Voodoo Logic: So Who Cursed Whom With Jersey? – New York Times

Voodoo Logic: So Who Cursed Whom With Jersey? – New York Times: “When a construction worker buried a Red Sox jersey at the new Yankee Stadium two weeks ago, he fancied himself a hero of Red Sox Nation.

“There he was, a Red Sox fan charged with erecting his enemies’ new fortress, about to curse the Yankees by embedding a David Ortiz jersey deep within the concrete of their new home. And when the Yankees foiled his plan Sunday, digging up the jersey in what they called an “excavation ceremony,” the club thought it had earned the last word.

“But according to Paul Monod, a professor of early modern European history at Middlebury College who has written extensively on the occult, the Yankees might have been better off leaving the jersey where it was.”