"We know that we had some heartache last year. We felt like we had the best team out there. We were a bunch of cowboys out there last year, just enjoying every minute," said Damon of the Sox, who lost Game 7 of the ALCS to the Yankees.

"Now we have something to prove. We don't want to be remembered as a team that keeps making the playoffs but has tough losses. We want to be known as the team that rewrites the history books. We are not the cowboys anymore, we are just the idiots this year, so we are going to go out and try to swing the bats, find the holes, and hopefully good things will happen," said Damon.