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P'od Papi Pops Off |
"It was humiliating. There's no reason a guy like me should go through that. All I was looking for was two years, at the same salary ($12.5 million). They ended up giving me $3 million more than that (actually $2.025 million), and look at my numbers this year. Tell me if they wouldn't have been better off. And yet they don't hesitate to sign other guys. It was embarrassing."
So now he's threatening to leave the Red Sox next year. We never thought we'd say this about the guy, but: "Buddy, shut up and hit."