The Boston Herald occasionally prints a list of the highest paid players. The Red Sox only had a few, like J.D. Drew,
but it was chock full of Yankees. Buying a championship?
If so, then it was so pleasant for Sox fans in 2003 to see that the team which beat us in the ALCS (barely), NYY, went on to lose the World Series to the low-payroll Florida Marlins :)
(featuring Mr. Mike Lowell and Mr. Josh Beckett.)
Also he was “our” guy then, but I do fondly remember
Johnny Damon’s grand slam vs the Yanks in game 7 of
the 2004 ALCS...