During a July 24, 2004 game between the Red Sox and Yankees, Boston catcher (and captain with a “C”) Jason Varitek let it be known he wasn’t going to be intimidated by anyone from New York.
Varitek famously got into it with Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, shoving his catcher’s mitt into A-Rod’s face and cementing his way onto every New Englander’s desktop wallpaper in the process.
“I told him, in choice words, to get to first base,” Varitek told reporters at the time. “And then it changed from him yelling at Bronson [Arroyo] to [us] yelling at each other, and then things got out of hand.