Bronx Ritual Magic Plot Foiled
Yesterday construction workers at the new Yankees stadium jackhammered through nearly a yard of concrete to retrieve a jersey planted in the foundations by a fan of a rival ball club. The shirt had been placed there by another worker on the site, hoping to curse the team when it moved into its new digs. Yankees honchos ordered the extraction, labeling it an “excavation ceremony.” Which is to say, exorcism.
Yankees owners are consulting the Bronx District Attorney’s office to see if they can charge the guy with anything. Other reports suggest that they’re looking into civil action.
I’m sure nothing will happen, but it would be extraordinarily entertaining if it did. Either a criminal or a civil case would require Yankees lawyers to definitively establish, in a court of law, the efficacy of ceremonial magic.