Johnny Damon 2007 CF rating will be a 1

[milezd]

[quote:27fa705fb1="Woody5"]Sounds like some sour grapes from a few Sox fans.


I don't know what I like more.....getting Damon at the top of our line-up or taking him from the Sox. :twisted:

Red Sox fans- :(

Yankee Fan- :lol:[/quote:27fa705fb1]

no matter how "sox fans" would have replied it would have been spun into sour grapes by yankees fans, that's just their nature, they define themselves by the red sox

[milezd]

[quote:5e0b43aba1="bleacher_creature"]From the excel range sheet that came from SOM I believe:

BOS B REG JOHNNY DAMON [b:5e0b43aba1] 2[/b:5e0b43aba1][/quote:5e0b43aba1]

that's why I said 2007, the year AFTER he plays for the yanks

[Cubit]

Johnny D was a great table-setter and a spark-plug as they say, but he's gone now. I think when Boros got the Yanks to bid $12M more than the Bosox best offer Damon would have been nuts not to grab it off the table before sanity returned.

I already feel the pain of watching him next to Matsui and Sheffield in Yankee stadium--- That's a LOT-a-Ground folks. In Fenway there was only that one dreadful throw from Deep Sentaaa, the rest of the time you just had to get it in since nobody ran on anybody in the outfield in Fenway. The Gappers in the Bronx will all be for that extra base. Of course if Canu and Jeter suddenly develop rifle arms and move out twenty steps on the cut-offs....

If only Larry were the Red Sox GM-- He'd never have let that happen. He'd have offered 52 for 6!

[bleacher_creature]

[quote:9b7c03a7f2="milezd"][quote:9b7c03a7f2="bleacher_creature"]From the excel range sheet that came from SOM I believe:

BOS B REG JOHNNY DAMON [b:9b7c03a7f2] 2[/b:9b7c03a7f2][/quote:9b7c03a7f2]

that's why I said 2007, the year AFTER he plays for the yanks[/quote:9b7c03a7f2]

Sorry. Give me the dunce cap and put me in the corner. I didn't get the joke at first.

[goredsox33]

im a die hard red sox fan here
and i hate losing damon period, whether to the yankees or not.....

i am actually a little em,barrassed at how alot of red sox nation is responding to him leaving ...calling him a traitor and things like that

i mean cmon.....who wouldnt take 12 mil extra????

baseball is all business

[bleacher_creature]

Like I always tell my kids, $12 million dollars is $12 million dollars.

[hechojazz]

...yeah, and pretty soon you're talkin' about real money!

:roll:

[JASEDOANE]

Damon was great for Boston (well, 2 years out of 4) but he's not worth $12 million a year. I think he'll struggle in NY...especially when the Yankees have to send 3 cutoff men out to CF on extra base gappers :)

[tersignf]

yeah and according to Johnny D he says the Yanks haven't won a championship since they had chucky knobs leading off because they've lacked a leadoff hitter. He went on to say that's why they went after the best. OK Johnny...ease up boy. You may have scored a crapload of runs, but Greg Luzinski could have been running out there--Ortiz, Ramirez give me a break.
Tell you what--that won't fly in New York. Oddly enough, NY fans want humility out of their ballplayers toward the media/public. Players that come off as bigger than the team get railroaded.

[tersignf]

what's even worse is the average MLB player makes about 2.5 mil.
I won't be going to any more games. Last year I saw the Yanks in KC--but even KC is getting ridiculous on prices. Now I spent $100 a ticket to see U2 last week--worth 2X that much. But $25 to see a ballgame? No thanks--I'll watch it on the tube.