Mo Vaughn Let The Terrorists Win

Oh those darn terrorists!

Do you remember Mo Vaughn? I'm sure you do. He was the big fat guy at first base for the Red Sox, Angels, and Mets all those years. In case you were wondering, he's still alive. The LA Times Jerry Crowe recently caught up with Vaughn, and Mo surprised him with the reason why he wanted out of LA after the 2001 season.

Angels fans never really took to Vaughn after the team gave him the biggest contract in franchise history back in 1998. It was a six-year $80 million deal but Vaughn injured his ankle in his first game as an Angel, and it set the tone for an injury plagued stay in Anaheim. So nobody in Los Angeles was all that sorry to see him go when the Angels traded Vaughn to the Mets in December 2001. It was also assumed Vaughn wanted out because he was homesick for his east coast roots.

The real reason he wanted out of Los Angeles? Osama Bin Laden.

"I haven't stated this to anybody," the former Angel, 39, says from New York, where he's forging a new career transforming dilapidated low-income housing developments into livable apartments, "but the reason I left Anaheim was because of Sept. 11. My parents never really missed a game and after Sept. 11 hit, I was like, 'I've got to get back home. I don't want my parents in the air.' "

And with that, George Bush just sent 10,000 more troops to the middle east to avenge the trade of Mo Vaughn.