Damon is a Yankee :(

[Guest Edgy DC]

Earlier in the thread (earlier in the same post, I think, without checking): The Shortstop Who Will Not Be Named.

[Elster88]

]earlier in the same post, I think, without checking

How embarrassing.

[Guest Edgy DC]

This guy is beside himself tossing the blame around. I think he's thinking wishfully suggesting that players don't see much endorsement money upon initially coming to New York. Mo Vaughn secured that Mo-Licious thingie in ten minutes.

[Elster88]

I can't believe a guy who writes a line like this:

]Let's start with the (dis)organization called the Boston Red Sox. Right now, the management at Fenway is so out of order they are driving the team towards 3rd place.

Everyone knows that the Red Sox are run so well that they inspire fans to cross over from other teams.

[seawolf17]

Edgy DC wrote: Earlier in the thread (earlier in the same post, I think, without checking): The Shortstop Who Will Not Be Named.

Yeah. Sorry. I didn't feel like typing the whole thing out again, and I can't write J-t-r without going into spasms.

[Elster88]

Simmons says it all in this line:

]Last season, Damon watched from afar as some Boston fans turned on Millar, Embree, Bellhorn, Foulke and even Schilling -- five key members of the Greatest Comeback In Sports History -- and probably wondered to himself, "Wait, I'm supposed to remain loyal to them?"

I don't agree with everything in that column, but that line is perfect. Every asshole-boobird who gets pissed when a free-agent player is a hypocrite of the highest order.


Edit:
Also this line is a good summary:

]The question remains: If you were Johnny Damon, would you have passed up $12 million to return to a team that didn't really seem to want you back? Didn't think so. He's not Anakin, he's not Judas, he's not the Reverse Earl Hickey. He's just another businessman who followed the money and never looked back. In other words, he's a professional athlete.

Edit:
I don't think he writes the captions, but most Star Wars references make me laugh:

]The transformation is complete. Damon will now be able to choke Red Sox fans using only his mind.

[Elster88]

Hmmmmmm. The term "asshole-boobird" is redundant, no?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Rick Woodson, talking big for the Rochester Business Journal.

[metirish]

I love this deal for the MFY's, Damon is nothing more than an average player that was part of the media creation in Boston, the whole "idot" thing making him seem better and more valuable than he really is.

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

Elster88 wrote: I can't believe a guy who writes a line like this: ]Let's start with the (dis)organization called the Boston Red Sox. Right now, the management at Fenway is so out of order they are driving the team towards 3rd place. Everyone knows that the Red Sox are run so well that they inspire fans to cross over from other teams.

No, he's right about that. Lettting Theo go is totally incompetent. Current top management is looking to Queens for wisdom and foresight.

I have no idea what he means by "a former GM who is not on the payroll but is still mysteriously involved in the team�s decisions"--the only thing Theo has done since November, according to my very reliable sources, is sit on a South American beach listening to Pearl Jam.

[Frayed Knot]

Probably that various rumors have it that Theo is still be contacted in some sort of vague "consulting" role.

Whether he was involved in recent the signing of JT Snow to a Maj League deal (and thereby crushing the hopes of their minor leaguers everywhere) is unknown at this time.