Wade Boggs.
Roger Clemens.
Johnny Damon.

Dan Shaughnessy: "Johnny Damon is a Yankee and it looks like the Red Sox don't know what they are doing."

Red at SurvivingGrady.com: "Mr. Damon, you are dead to me."

Of course, the Red Sox still have David Ortiz in the lineup and will either have Manny Ramirez or a similar bat in their lineup (if Manny is traded.)

But they've lost perhaps the best leadoff hitter in baseball, lost him to the 8-time reigning division champs. The Red Sox lost a 100-run-a-year player, and the Yankees gained a 100-run-a-year player. For teams that have been almost identically matched for the past three seasons, that's a 200-run swing that Red Sox Nation could do without.

And, by the way, the Yankees will still probably save on salary in 2006 without Bernie Williams' 7-year contract, Kevin Brown's salary and with Robinson Cano at second base to start the year instead of Tony Womack.

How many days until pitchers and catchers report?

On Johnny Damon's web site, some Red Sox fans are beginning to voice their comments, including this:

You represented EVERYTHING Red Sox, when you helped bring the World Series to us, the fans. By going to New York, that now means nothing to me. Disappointment doesn't adequately describe what I feel, and what your fans feel.