You would want Boston to pay 52 over 4 for Johnny Damon?

Wow.

12/21/2005 11:59:26 AM

dude's got old man ears already. no wonder he grew his hair out.......faggot

12/21/2005 12:44:53 PM

that lineup is ridiculous

there are no easy out for anyone hitting 1-6

12/21/2005 12:46:38 PM

haha, I fucking love seeing all you guys getting pissed off about this, lol.

12/21/2005 1:14:55 PM

Not as much as we loved seeing you guys get pissed off about this.

12/21/2005 1:16:16 PM

Nah I think you do more Esp. when he's helping whip some Red Sox ass (on the field)

You gonna PM me that info or what?

12/21/2005 1:18:45 PM

cash rules

12/21/2005 1:30:58 PM

Johnny Damon...A YANKEE?!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12/21/2005 5:01:33 PM

personally i dont care that the sox got rid of him or let him go or whatever.....however, i hate the fact that he is going to the yankees....i think he will do one of two things there 1) tank 2) MVP

12/21/2005 5:11:26 PM

the Yankees own everything... this sucks

12/21/2005 5:47:07 PM

I hate the Yankees and I hope that Damon has the worst season on his career next year. They did overpay for him and there is no way in three to fours years he'll be worth 13 million per season.

12/21/2005 5:52:04 PM

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"he didn't even give Boston a chance to match it, he took it and ran."

Uh, No, his agent talked to Boston right after getting the offer from the Yankees. Boston told him, they would not move on their 4/40Mil offer.

Yes this makes him a traitor, but it did seem like the Boston management was disrespecting him. I personally think he would have taken less if Boston had just showed that they wanted him. He probably would have taken Boston's offer if they would have just added a 5th year vested option.

12/21/2005 6:03:53 PM

johnny cash had a great hit that must have been towards redsox fans.... i think it was called "cry cry cry".

how bout getting an owner that will invest this much money in his team, and you could buy whoever you wanted to as well.


also, until they get a cap in baseball, don't blame steiny for spending whatever he wants.

12/21/2005 7:25:20 PM

The Yankees are the best team in baseball again. It pisses me off. I know Damon probably isn't worth $13M over 4. However, the Red Sox had a $10M/4 deal. It WAS worth it to pony up that extra $3M/yr to do two things: keep him in the Fenway CF and to not let the Yanks complete their team.

Lets face it. The Yankees with Crosby in CF are NO WHERE NEAR as good as the Yankees with Damon in CF. All the Yankee fans on here will tell you, like they did all offseason so far, that Crosby was fine and they didn't need anyone else. That is just plain wrong. Every single one of them wanted an upgrade. Well now they got it.

Larry Luchinno seems hell bent on destroying every bit of good will this team had from 2004. Every bit of it. Not only did he lose the heart and soul of the team, now Manny says he will accept a trade ANYWHERE because he doesn't feel the Sox want to win. No Damon and No Manny will eventually lead to NO Ortiz. Everyone knows that.

The second Johnny Damon gets introduced with his short hair and clean shaven face in pinstripes it will be the worst day for a Red Sox fan since October 2003 seeing Pedro walking off that mound in the 8th inning.

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"also, until they get a cap inquote baseball, don't blame steiny for spending whatever he wants."

He is playing by the rules. There is no disputing that. However, it is still unfair. There needs to be a reasonable limit. Everyone knows the Yankees are an international cash cow. There is no reason a team should be allowed to outspend everyone else by almost $100M dollars. People always give the Mets shit in the NL for having the highest payroll. It is still HALF of the Yankees. The Red Sox are the only other MLB team over the luxury tax limit. It is still $75M less then the Yankees. That is outrageous. I'm not blasting the Yanks because, like I said, it is totally legal. I'm merely saying it shouldn't be. I'd be fine even with a $150M cap. At least that would make it A LITTLE fair.

[Edited on December 22, 2005 at 8:43 AM. Reason : f]

12/22/2005 8:33:16 AM

Damon was one of the biggest stars on the team. Without him you still would be waiting for a World Series win. As soon as he leaves for a better deal (like any other player in the current history of sports would have done) you say he is horrible and not worth the money. How about instead of bitching about the trade and how much Damon sucks think about how horrible your team has done this off season. You know, whoever they get to replace Damon will not be anywhere near the impact player he was. .

So instead of taking your anger out on Damon and the Yankees, I think you should direct it towards the people that really deserve it.....THE RED SOXS for letting a star player like that go.

12/22/2005 9:43:16 AM

Uh, I did. Notice the paragraph blaming Lucchino?

12/22/2005 9:43:53 AM

http://johnnydamon.ytmnd.com/

12/22/2005 9:44:29 AM

I was directing that to the other posts above yours.

12/22/2005 9:47:13 AM

Quote :

"Lets face it. The Yankees with Crosby in CF are NO WHERE NEAR as good as the Yankees with Damon in CF. All the Yankee fans on here will tell you, like they did all offseason so far, that Crosby was fine and they didn't need anyone else. That is just plain wrong. Every single one of them wanted an upgrade. Well now they got it."

Well of course we wanted an upgrade. But saying we would have been fine with Crosby out there is still true.

I mean, duh, Damon is the better player. But Crosby would have been out there because he would have been a HUGE defensive upgrade from Bernie. I don't think any of us was saying we didn't WANT an upgrade so much as if we didn't get one, we wouldn't have shed a tear about it.

All of us were hoping for an upgrade in CF, there's no question; you're absolutely right.

Frankly I was more concerned about the bullpen than CF. Crosby's defense would have done just fine, and we all know our offense would have been OK, but obviously it's much better off now. All the offense in the world doesn't matter if you can't get from a starter to Mo. I hope Farnsworth, Myers and Dotel can do it. That's been my biggest concern.

12/22/2005 9:55:35 AM

how have the Red Sox had a horrible offseason up til Tuesday, they upgraded at 2nd base, they got a hot prospect at third, they offloaded the man with the most errors at SS in the MLB last season. Until we lost Damon to Free Agency, he wasn't traded like some have erroneously stated, it was a mediocre offseason, and its not over yet. Losing the best leadoff hitter in the majors hurts but the Red Sox weren't going to pay him that much for that long because he could become an injury risk playing the position he does. Lucchino is fucking the team up though, and John Henry is too scared of him to do anything about it. It hasn't been the offseason of dreams, but we will bounce back.

12/22/2005 11:01:59 AM

I wouldn't want Boston to overpay at 52 for 4 years. It's going to be funny in a couple years when the yanks are too old to win and they have all of these contracts...

12/22/2005 11:55:24 AM

Its called putting the best team in place to win. Maybe if the Red Soxs actually learned how to do that they would win a World Series more than once every 86 years.

12/22/2005 11:59:53 AM

maybe if you learned how to spell you wouldn't be such a douchebag

12/22/2005 12:03:46 PM

^aaaaa..BURN!

12/22/2005 12:06:50 PM

Quote :

"He sold out to the man. Now he'll have to be "corporate""

Corporate Cave-maaaaaaaaauauauauauan!!!!!!

[Edited on December 22, 2005 at 12:08 PM. Reason : P.S. This is why I only like college sports.]

12/22/2005 12:06:52 PM

By the way, Douche Bag is two words.

12/22/2005 12:08:45 PM

ya know i dont care much for baseball, but NYM did you ever just consider that he wants to win another championship?

i mean maybe winning is more important than anything to him




















haha jk, he's a traitor

12/22/2005 12:30:00 PM

so what is their lineup?

damon
jeter
arod
giambi (switch with sheffield)
sheffield
matsui
posada
cano
bernie (will he be back?)

holy fucking shitballs

12/22/2005 2:10:36 PM

Bernie is back. Signed a one-year, $1.5 million deal. He'll be the DH and back-up CF and bat eighth.

I'd switch Giambi and Sheff, but that's about right.

12/22/2005 2:18:45 PM

can't wait to see his reception when the yankees go to fenway

12/22/2005 3:32:17 PM

i think curt schilling might be the last person on earth who would refuse to play for the yankers

12/22/2005 5:32:24 PM

robinson cano might as well be the bat boy ... fucking pauper :x

12/22/2005 5:37:57 PM

I havent responded to this thread yet.



This makes me sick.

Thats all.

12/22/2005 5:42:46 PM

despite all the talk about the money, you guys do realize the yankees payroll will be around $13 million less than last year right?

12/22/2005 5:51:24 PM

If only the Yanks had managed to get:



Icing on the cake.

12/22/2005 9:46:24 PM

just saw a quote on espn from damon's father saying that this was boston's worse mistake ever and compared Damon to Babe Ruth

12/23/2005 1:06:36 AM

espn//motion has his interview after being introduced as a yank

good grief
i knew he was dumb
but what the fuck

12/25/2005 3:26:18 AM