Right back at you, Kevin!
“I’ll always be a Red Sock. To negate all the years I played for the Boston Red Sox, and all the tradition, you look at all the stuff I have piled up at my house and to say I’d just throw it out the window, it’s not true. Those were great years in Boston. One bad half-year doesn’t take away from all the great years I had there.” – Kevin Youkilis
To be fair, Kevin Youkilis wasn’t completely lying when he made this statement last week to reporters before the start of spring training with the Yankees. Everything he did in Boston was great. He won two titles, he won a gold glove and he should have won an MVP award in 2008. As Red Sox fans, we cannot ignore these things because they are major moments in Red Sox history and the way things ended last year for Youk shouldn’t take away from what he accomplished here for eight seasons. However, there is one small statement made by Youk that is not OK and is not completely true. After the jump you will find a letter I...
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