Did buried jersey curse Ortiz?

I’m not the sort of person to buy into curses, but I do have a tendency to be a little superstitious, especially when it comes to clothing.

It started when I was a kid and I went bowling with a friend of mine. His dad (probably screwing with me) told me that it was good luck for a bowler to pull your socks up over your pant legs, and being a stupid little kid, I decided to try it. I got a strike on the first throw. I got a strike on the second throw. I got the first turkey of my life.

I had a lot of luck with the stupid sock trick, but when I got older I was more concerned with the social ramifications of wearing my socks over my pants than I was about my bowling score. I stopped hiking up my socks and my score plummeted, but there was no way that I was going to jack up my socks again.

I tried a number of other things, including wrist bands and lucky coins, but none of them worked. That’s the thing about “curses”—you never know what effect an item will have.

Fast forward to last week, and the fiasco that became of the David Ortiz jersey being buried in the concrete of the new Toilet.

The burying of the jersey happened to coincide with a terrible slump for Ortiz, and I began to wonder if the jersey cursed Ortiz, rather than the Yankees. If you want to curse the Yankees, bury the jersey of Carl Pavano or someone, don’t bury a cheap Ortiz home jersey with his name on the back.

And never. Ever. Try to curse anyone through the use of clothing. The potential for it to backfire is enormous.

Anyway, look for David Ortiz to have a huge game tonight, seeing as it’s his first game in the lineup since the jersey was removed yesterday.

I need to try the sock trick next time I bowl. Many times have I gotten two strikes in a row, but I can never get that damn turkey.

Haha, good luck with the trick.

On a side note, I guess was wrong about Ortiz having a huge night last night, but 2 for 5 isn’t bad. It brought his BA up to over .100:)

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