From yesterday's Boston Globe: Fleet claims for itself a home team advantage
Even more blasphemous for Bostonians is that Fleet has a conference room in its Financial District headquarters called the Yankee Room, named by company president and lifelong New York fan Eugene McQuade.
"I will not go into the Yankee Room," said Fleet chief executive Chad Gifford, a Providence native who grew up listening to Red Sox games on the radio.
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"It's called the Yankee Room in respect for the Yankee tradition here, or at least that's what I keep trying to make him believe," McQuade said of Gifford. McQuade grew up on Manhattan's Lower East Side and said he's been a Yankees fan as long as he can remember.
As the boss, though, Gifford gets the final word. He said he knows of other Yankees fans in the organization, too, and that, "quite frankly, I'm reviewing their career prospects."
If Boston wins the World Series this year, Gifford said, he has plans to trump McQuade's conference room.
"If they win this thing, I'll find a bigger and more important room and name it Red Sox Nation," he said.
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