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Bastards. A devilish Boston fan working on a concrete crew at the $1.3 billion stadium covertly buried a Red Sox T-shirt under what will become the visiting team’s locker room to jinx the Yanks, two construction workers told The Post yesterday. “In August, a Red Sox T-shirt was poured in a slab in the visitor’s clubhouse. It’s the curse of the Yankees,†one worker said. “Nobody knows about it. It’s in the floors, it’s buried.†Oh well. Let them have their fun. Wake me up when the Red Soxhttp://sayanythingblog.com/entry/red_sox_f...

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