http://cbs4boston.com/topstories/local_story_354222357.html

this deserved it's own thread

12/20/2005 10:42:44 PM

If only he'd get cancer...










if only he'd get cancer and DIE!!!

12/20/2005 10:44:16 PM

He is NOTHING to me now. He is Fredo. I hope the scabs who are running the MTA crash his bus/train and he die...

a fiery death and burns in front of live Boston television cameras

[Edited on December 20, 2005 at 10:46 PM. Reason : f]

12/20/2005 10:45:32 PM

they all come around eventually

12/20/2005 10:46:37 PM

You won't even recognize him next year after they make him cut his hair and shave.

12/20/2005 10:47:02 PM

^^



Not this guy. This guy said he would fuck Arods wife and then gizz in his daughters hair. Literally. It was on WFAN this morning.

12/20/2005 10:48:28 PM

mother fucker

12/20/2005 10:52:44 PM

Ehh fuck him. I thought he was a good guy.

12/20/2005 10:54:34 PM

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

12/20/2005 10:56:02 PM

Seriously, I don't know how the fuck someone can do that. To put all that energy into the best rivalry in sports, and then just switch sides. Fucking traitorous piece of shit.

12/20/2005 10:58:17 PM

players dont respect the team or rivalries anymore, it's about the $$ and that's it.

12/20/2005 11:00:35 PM

holy shit. that pisses me off a lot. but he's being way overpaid. that's what the yankees do though. they trade away all their prospects, overpay for old talent, and they will continue to feel the wrath of their decisions.

[Edited on December 20, 2005 at 11:11 PM. Reason : i am not happy with damon. I'll still do his wife, but damnit if he hasn't ruined my opinion of him]

12/20/2005 11:09:13 PM

true all the pros play every day its like a job for them rivalries stop as soon as they step off the field

12/20/2005 11:10:08 PM

I just don't get it. I really don't. I don't understand how you can be on one side of that rivalry (like I am as a Mets and Red Sox fan) and be absolutely CONSUMED by it and then turn around and sign with the other. I didn't understand it when Pedro THOUGHT (and I never got the feeling he REALLY considered the Bronx) about it and I DEFINITELY don't understand it now.

People down here can talk about 'the money' but you ask 90% of the people from where we're from and it is unfathomable.

It fucking pisses me off. I meant it when I said Damon is NOTHING to me now. Nothing he did matters. It was Schilling. It was Manny. It was Ortiz. It was Lowe. It was Wakefield. It was Pedro. It wasn't a FUCKING YANKEE.

12/20/2005 11:10:29 PM

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY

We love you, Jesus

12/20/2005 11:14:39 PM

my heart literally hurts. i hate the yankees with a passion, and now he is part of that hatred.


but at least the yankees are sticking to their guns of trading away young talent and signing old players. damon will be worthless in a year or two with injuries, mark my words. thats why the sox wouldn't sign his ass for what he was demanding.

[Edited on December 20, 2005 at 11:15 PM. Reason : I like you QT, don't make me change my feelings ]

12/20/2005 11:14:46 PM

this kind of thing happens all the time

its business...damon isnt from boston, he's not from new york, he's from kansas

12/20/2005 11:15:08 PM

^^Wuv woo

Sorry though...I've been a Yankees fan since I could walk.

12/20/2005 11:16:30 PM

Fuck him let him go to the evil empire he will be Bernie Williams in a season anyways, I guess that means heart of the team Millar will leave now.

12/20/2005 11:18:57 PM

This is a saaaaad day. And I'm not even a diehard Sox fan. This hurts.

12/20/2005 11:19:13 PM

Quote :

"this kind of thing happens all the time"

Does it? Tell me another time when a BIG TIME player (and I'm not talking Mark fucking Bellhorn) goes from the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees. Please. Enlighten us.

V you know that is different. He went from Boston -> Toronto -> New York

[Edited on December 20, 2005 at 11:21 PM. Reason : f]

12/20/2005 11:19:53 PM

Clemens.

12/20/2005 11:20:04 PM

Ruth.

12/20/2005 11:20:47 PM

hahaha

yeah, clemens

i dont want to fight with you since you support notre dame, but there are other teams in baseball that dont like each other other than those 2 mentioned northeastern teams

[Edited on December 20, 2005 at 11:21 PM. Reason : d]

12/20/2005 11:20:54 PM

Boggs is the only one. He was old as shit and not wanted back in Boston. Nothing else is comparable in this generation.

^ I understand that. How would you feel 10 minutes after you found out something like Mark Grace or Ryne Sandberg elected to go to the Cards over the Cubs though?

** ah well. I need some sleep!

[Edited on December 20, 2005 at 11:23 PM. Reason : f]

12/20/2005 11:21:47 PM

^^^^touche....but the blue jays were there first...that softened the blow.

Maybe roger will return and lead the sox to a perfect record vs. the evil empire.

[Edited on December 20, 2005 at 11:23 PM. Reason : .]

12/20/2005 11:22:23 PM

Quote :

"^ I understand that. How would you feel 10 minutes after you found out something like Mark Grace or Ryne Sandberg elected to go to the Cards over the Cubs though?"

i didnt realize this was so fresh, ive been quite busy this week

it would piss me off, but then i would have wondered why the cubs didnt make every effort to re-sign

12/20/2005 11:23:38 PM

and lets face it

you knew he wasnt coming back

this only makes the rivalry that much more interesting

12/20/2005 11:25:14 PM

well, i didn't want them to do anything to re-sign him. IMO his best years are behind him, he knows that, that's why he was trying to get a long term high paying deal. I wouldn't want the sox to give him 52 over 4. Doesn't mean it doesn't hurt me to see him in a yankees uniform.

Like ive said, the only good part is that the yankees continue to overpay for people are not the future.

12/20/2005 11:32:02 PM

The Yankees haven't been trading away their prospects this year. George is finally listening to Cashman about that. Thank God.

And Damon will look juuuust fine in pinstripes.

He doesn't get a free pass from me cuz he was a damn Boston guy, but he can prove himself and I'll be happy.

12/20/2005 11:32:11 PM

^i thought the yanks just traded away a prospect pitcher..

12/20/2005 11:33:57 PM

I'd do it for money. Yes, I'd become a Yankee for the right price as well.

12/20/2005 11:36:45 PM

CUT YER HAIR, HIPPIE

12/20/2005 11:43:36 PM

^^^ not that I know of. Of course, I've been kind of busy with work and grad school applications, so I've kind of fallen behind on the Hot Stove report.

But I mean, they held onto Cano, Wang and Eric Duncan -- their three biggest prospects/young guys. In previous years, you would not have been able to say that.

12/20/2005 11:49:20 PM

new favorite player

12/21/2005 1:34:10 AM

damn, now I have to get rid of my WWJDD shirt

12/21/2005 1:51:44 AM

glad I never bought any JD shit....but I will be buying a new tek jersey this spring

12/21/2005 2:55:32 AM

Haha! Can't wait to see that first game in Fenway when the boos rain down.

The Yankees fucking pwn.

12/21/2005 3:18:36 AM

As a yankees fan, if i had to pick one player from Boston that I would want on the team, it would have been Damon.......

welcome to Steiny Land Damon, let's hope you survive higher expectations.

12/21/2005 6:44:56 AM

Welcome to the Empire!!!!

12/21/2005 6:47:59 AM

so it wasn't a bad dream??!?!

12/21/2005 8:39:52 AM

Except for Cano (320K) and Bernie (yet to agree), every guy in the yankee starting lineup is making at least $10.2 Millon per year.

[Edited on December 21, 2005 at 10:11 AM. Reason : .]

12/21/2005 10:06:20 AM

good grief

12/21/2005 10:12:22 AM

Fuck you, Johnny Damon. I hope you fucking die in a plane crash.

12/21/2005 11:10:28 AM

Quote :

"Except for Cano (320K) and Bernie (yet to agree), every guy in the yankee starting lineup is making at least $10.2 Millon per year. "

I heard that this morning as well. That is friggin rediculous. Sure the sox pay out a good bit, but NO ONE PAYS LIKE THAT! There really shouldn't be a reason they don't win the world series every year.

DEAR LORD I HATE THE YANKEES SO SO BADLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a fuck-face


[Edited on December 21, 2005 at 11:29 AM. Reason : image]

12/21/2005 11:25:24 AM

Quote :

"Seriously, I don't know how the fuck someone can do that. To put all that energy into the best rivalry in sports, and then just switch sides. Fucking traitorous piece of shit. "

I remember seeing his house on MTV cribs one time, he had Red Sox memorabilia everywhere in his place. I think I remember his son having long hair and was most likelya red sox fan since the day he was born, hell he was probably taught to hate the yankees. Now daddy has to get a new haircut and get rid of all of those Red Sox memories.

I was kinda impartial to the yankees up to this point - since 75% of their trades result in nothing - but now I really cant stand them anymore. All they do is buy their talent in hopes of assembling an allstar team, every fucking year. Whatever happened to team loyalty, and finding talent from within the organization like every other team does (ahem, Cleveland)??

I truly do believe that the yankees are ruining baseball


/rant

12/21/2005 11:29:41 AM

they've been trying to ruin baseball for sometime now..

12/21/2005 11:31:05 AM

When I first heard the news I was pissed the fuck off. How in the fuck could Damon become a Yankee??? But then I realized that the Red Sox owners have never REALLY given their players and management the respect they deserve. Theo had to practically BEG for an average contract! If I were Damon I'd take $52M over $40M any day. It's just the nature of the business.

12/21/2005 11:47:01 AM

Traitor?

Dude signed a 4-year, 52 million dollar contract. He'd be a dumbass to not take a deal like that.

12/21/2005 11:50:20 AM

he didn't even give Boston a chance to match it, he took it and ran. Thats a traitor for you I hope he tears every ligament in his knee

12/21/2005 11:57:51 AM