The Mets Police: Phillies Jerseys Burined At Citi Field? Hoax?

Phillies Jerseys Burined At Citi Field? Hoax?

I may be being punked here. Maybe I'm an idiot for even giving time to this - but the Mets Police ain't 60 Minutes - it's just a blog, it's just a diversion, and it's the middle of the night so I'm going to entertain it now that I see a few other people have written it.

A bunch of media outlets, blogs, The Mets Police and others got this email today:

I work for Hunt Construction. I was a foreman at Citi Field. There are 3 Phillies Jerseys buried in the ball park. As a lifelong Phillies fan, I felt it was my duty to jinx the Mets. I'm not telling you my real name for obvious reasons. The jerseys are:

1. Under the Fanwalk bricks.

2. Jackie Robinson Rotunda in the vicinity of the Ticket Office window.

3. Near the vicinity of the '47 Shop near right field.

Like I said, I'm not sure I believe it - but since I now think a few media outlets are investigating it, and at least Nj.com has printed it I'm going to share it with you guys.

For a little sake of credibility, I try to have some degree of honor with this stuff - so when I asked the dude who sent it to me for "more" he did send me some stuff that makes me believe at least one of the TV stations is taking it seriously.

My quick thoughts and then I'm going to bed:
a) if it is true, who cares. A jersey doesn't make Castillo drop a pop-up.
b) another thing that isn't original to Flushing. Can't we have our own jinx? Do we have to steal one from the Yankees?

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Administrative stuff: I have contacted the TV station to see if they think it's real.

Some of you have sent me some great stuff for the site at shannon@metspolice.com Thanks for sending, and I will process them as soon as I can, busy week. Ditto on comments that I haven't responded to yet. Thanks for following the Mets Police, and double-thanks to those who send stuff in. To the guy that sent me this story, I mean no disrespect questioning the validity of the story, I just don't want to throw any old thing up here.

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Friday Update: The TV channel got back to me and they believe it is a prank by some radio personalities. I'll let you decide for yourself if you think it was clever.

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Anonymous said :

June 19, 2009 at 3:03 AM

Bah, who cares? Seriously. You're right on the money about the Yankees/RedSox have already been there, done that. You can't create a jinx out of whole cloth on purpose. It has to be organic, born of some strange ethereal forces. Curses are discovered, not invented. What you can do, is create a box-o-rocks dumb publicity stunt. If it's even true. Next!

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