- Two Boston men came into possession of the Boston Red Sox' division championship banner.
- The duo was hoping to be rewarded for finding the banner, but instead got nothing from the Red Sox.
- They know people.
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Boston bros with 'connections' find lost Red Sox championship banner and wanted to be compensated, but got nothing in return
Two Bostonians picked up a Red Sox division title banner from the street after it fell off of a truck. They tried to leverage their new find for playoff tickets, but they have reportedly returned the banner without any payoff.
A bizarre series of events left two Boston men in possession of the Boston Red Sox' 2018 division title banner before the team even clinched the American League East title.
Friends Louie Iacuzzi and James Aramal were driving on McGrath Highway in Somerville Wednesday morning when they came across the banner, which had fallen off a vendor’s delivery truck and obstructed multiple lanes of traffic. Iacuzzi "ran through [expletive], like, three cars," to take the banner home, he told the Boston Globe.
Then he and Aramal began to strategize about their next move.
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"My dad’s telling me to put it on eBay and sell it for a lot of money, but I want to give it to the original owner," Iacuzzi said. "We want to return it, we’re trying to do the right thing, but I’m not just going to hand it to them, know what I mean? Financial [compensation], maybe some tickets, we want something. We don’t know what we want. We want to return it, 100%, but we would like to get something."
"We’re working, too," Aramal added. "I mean, my man had to run across three lanes of traffic."
They even have "connections," noting they could have sold it to a third party, but didn't.
Check out this video of the duo taken at Iacuzzi's home in Malden:
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The duo received criticism after accused them of stealing it outright. Iacuzzi was furious about the allegations:
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