At his annual fundraiser for his "Youk's Kid's" charity, Red Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis said he thought the team was subjected to a "witch hunt" from the public and media after their historic September collapse. Said Youk:“It kind of seemed like it was a witch hunt — what player’s doing this, what player did that wrong? We’re a team. We lose as a team, and we all failed. There’s not one player that didn’t fail because we lost, and we all failed.”
It was also revealed yesterday that Youkilis has been cleared to resume all baseball activities, as he recovers from October 4th surgery for a sports hernia.