Opinion: The Red Sox jersey drama draws to a fitting close

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Remember that Red Sox jersey that a construction worker — who also happened to be a Sox fan — dropped into the wet concrete of the New York Yankees’ fresh, new stadium? And how the Yankees spent a cool fifty grand to dig it right back out, fearing a Red Sox curse embedded in their home field — a decision the editorial board called ‘a reminder that for all of humanity’s pretensions to modernity and reason, we are essentially just bald monkeys who wear shoes’?

Yeah, now it’s on eBay. Just posted yesterday — and as further demonstration of humanity’s supersitious nature and penchant for totems, it’s already racked up 116 pre-approved bids and is sitting pretty at $37,600. But if you think it’s going to go to cover the Yankees’ deconstruction costs, you don’t give the baseball industry enough credit: Proceeds go to the cancer-fighting nonprofit Jimmy Fund. Proof that while you couldn’t make this stuff up, that doesn’t mean there can’t be a happy ending. Or at least, a face-saving one.

*Photo courtesy AP.