In the greatest baseball-writing mishap since someone wrote fuck face on the bottom of Billy Ripkin’s bat, Yankee outfielder Shelly Duncan signed an autograph “Red Sox Suck!”—to a 10-year-old boy.

Duncan was surprised to learn that [10-year-old Griffin] Whitman and his parents took offense. “I thought I was back in middle school or high school, where you try to make a joke or say something funny, and you end up saying something that gets you in trouble… I try to be interactive with people, be funny, have a good time and have a laugh.
It’s not always Yankees fans that have us sign stuff.”

What was that kid asking a Yankee for his autograph, anyway? We always thought the indoctrination within the Red Sox Nation was that anything pinstripes was bad and should be treated with contempt? If anything, kid, just be happy they haven’t stripped you of your residency, but you can forget about ever being president.

‘Joke’ but no laughs [Boston Herald, via Yanksfan vs Soxfan]
Image [Boston.com]