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This is infurating for so many reasons.  First, why couldn't these guys keep their mouths shut until it became impossible to dig up the jersey?  Just wait a few more months, then bring this to the NY Post or the Boston Herald.  It would've been classic.  But these idiots couldn't keep the lid on it. 

But the Yankees' reaction to it all is just so completely over-the-top ludicrous.  Reminds me of the neighbor kid who kept faking debilitating injuries in front-yard wiffleball yesterday.  Every time he fell down it was as if he'd never get back up.  And yet I digress...

Yankees president Randy Levine said team officials at first considered leaving the shirt where it was.

"The first thought was, you know, it's never a good thing to be buried in cement when you're in New York," Levine said. "But then we decided, why reward somebody who had really bad motives and was trying to do a really bad thing?"

Nobody in New York should claim that tossing a jersey into a building's footing is a "really bad thing."  Lots of really bad things have actually happened in New York City through the years.  This was a really funny/really clever thing. 

Trost said the Yankees had discussed possible criminal charges against Castignoli with the district attorney's office.

"We will take appropriate action since fortunately we do know the name of the individual," he said.

A spokesman for Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson said Sunday he did not know whether any criminal charges might apply.

Criminal charges...for what?  Improper discarding of a jersey?  There was no code violated, nobody's safety put at risk.  Nothing.   It was a clever joke - and I'd have said the same thing if it was a Yankees jersey buried in the footings of a new Boston stadium, not that your average Yankee fan could do something that clever.  They'd just piss in the footing and tell all their buddies about it as if they'd found gold or cured cancer.

The Red Sox should have Castignoli throw out a first pitch.