Ortiz upset Red Sox offered his signed memorabilia to fan who caught A-Rod's home run ball

David Ortiz wasn't particularly pleased with how the Boston Red Sox handled Alex Rodriguez's milestone home run on Friday. 

It wasn't that the team failed to celebrate the New York Yankees slugger's blast that tied him with Willie Mays for fourth on the all-time list with 660, but rather that they tried to use Ortiz's signed memorabilia in an attempted trade to get the ball from the fan who caught it after he refused to take anything from the Yankees.  

"That is not OK with me at all," Ortiz told the New York Daily News. "That's not the way it's supposed to work. They're supposed to ask me before any of my (items) get offered to anyone."

Ortiz made it clear, that it wasn't because he didn't want his items being associated with Rodriguez, but rather the team violating normal protocol. 

"It's not because they were doing this for A-Rod's ball," Ortiz said. "It's because they're supposed to ask for my (things) before they do something like that.

"And if Alex really wanted the ball and they did this thing right, of course I'd sign some (items)."

In the end, the Red Sox didn't end up forking any memorabilia over as the fan who caught the ball plans to hold on to it for the time being. 

"I know he got paid $6 million just to hit the home run ... maybe," the 25-year-old financial adviser told Dan Martin of the New York Post. "If he wanted to take a picture with the ball, he'd be more than welcome, but I'm not giving it to him."