'I hope it is an aberration because I think there's a lot of good players that are being deprived of getting an opportunity to continue their careers.'
'I think this year especially -- maybe rightfully so -- there's been a lot of people saying that I'm in decline or I'm not going to be as good as I once was. I'm looking forward to proving a lot of people wrong with that.'
The Red Sox became possibly the first team to dunk on its biggest rival so hard that even the power of the Internet meme is insufficient to describe the sickness of the burn.