Damons a Yank

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SmokeyVol

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Damon is a Yank :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock:


Damon not Damons ............. can someone correct the title for me?
 
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NEW YORK -- The New York Yankees grabbed center fielder Johnny Damon away from the rival Boston Red Sox, reaching a preliminary agreement Tuesday night on a $52 million, four-year contract.

Details of the deal were still being negotiated and Damon must pass a physical, a baseball official said on condition of anonymity because negotiations were not yet final.

Damon fills a double void for the Yankees, giving them a speedy center fielder who can cover ground and a leadoff hitter to top a star-studded lineup that also includes Derek Jeter, Gary Sheffield, AL MVP Alex Rodriguez, Hideki Matsui and Jason Giambi.

Bernie Williams' defense declined significantly over the past four seasons. And while Damon's arm is not much better, he does cover a lot of ground, which is important in Yankee Stadium.

Agent Scott Boras had been seeking a seven-year contract for Damon. The offer Damon accepted was essentially the same as the deal Matsui agreed to with the Yankees last month.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2266983
 
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dang well this isnt surprising, I am impressed by this sigining. top to bottom they have the best lineup in all mlb now. but i think the cubs are better..... lol
 
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(vols2345 @ Dec 21 said:
dang well this isnt surprising, I am impressed by this sigining. top to bottom they have the best lineup in all mlb now. but i think the cubs are better..... lol
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Only time will tell, but I think that Pierre has a much larger upside for the Cubbies than that noodle arm Damon does for the Yuckee's.


Steinbrenner once again shows that all he thinks he needs to do is throw enough money at a problem for the problem to be solved. $52,000,000.00 bucks for that mope proves my point. Who's going to be there to cut the ball off now on Damons girly like throws back to the infield?


Tim Haag :bump3: 56
 
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(BigUmp56 @ Dec 21 said:
Only time will tell, but I think that Pierre has a much larger upside for the Cubbies than that noodle arm Damon does for the Yuckee's.
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Don't teams run on Pierre a lot too? He can track down a lot of balls, but I always thought he had one of the worst outfield arms in MLB.
 
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Lets put it this way Deion Sanders has a better arm than Pierre.

Remember one of Deion stints with the Reds when he dared Fred McGriff to run to third, McGriff took him up and beat the throw?

*Classic!*
 
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Being a Red Sox fan, this hacks me off a bit.

Baseball is fast becoming the sport of 'no loyalty, just show me the money and to heck with it'.
 
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It's just Steinbrenner stinking up the sport. He treats all other teams as just a farm system for the Yankees, spends a quarter billion dollars on players, then doesn't win anything and he wonders why.

Were I the MLB commish, I would personally enact a salary cap just for the humor of watching the Yankees flounder because they don't know the first thing about actually putting together a good team instead of a bunch of big contracts.
 
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what a friggin sellout. i bet all the boston fans will give him major hell. all that crap about the idiots and that book he wrote.


F******* SELLOUT.

steinbrenner is the damn devil i tell ya. :devilsmoke:
 
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(surrealvol @ Dec 21 said:
Being a Red Sox fan, this hacks me off a bit.

Baseball is fast becoming the sport of 'no loyalty, just show me the money and to heck with it'.
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The only fans I hate worse than Yankees fans are Red Sox fans. The Red Sox buy all their players the same way, then whine when the Yankees sign one of their own. Also, it is not like Damon came up through the Sox organization. He was an All Star for the Royals and A's prior to being bought by the Red Sox, and Manny was an All Star in Cleveland before being bought. Shilling is another example. Heck, the whole World Series team was bought, minus Ortiz.

You come on here preaching this loyalty crap, the same offseason that the Red Sox sign Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell? Wasn't it the Sox that dumped Garciaparra as dead wait when for the past decade Nomar was the face of the organization???
 
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YEAH CAPITALSIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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(milohimself @ Dec 21 said:
It's just Steinbrenner stinking up the sport. He treats all other teams as just a farm system for the Yankees, spends a quarter billion dollars on players, then doesn't win anything and he wonders why.

Were I the MLB commish, I would personally enact a salary cap just for the humor of watching the Yankees flounder because they don't know the first thing about actually putting together a good team instead of a bunch of big contracts.
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The heart of their organization when they were winning World Series came up through the Yankees org. Posada, Rivera, Jeter, Williams, O'Neil, etc. The heart of the Red Sox and White Sox when they won theirs, were all stars with different teams: Damon, Ramirez, Shilling, Contreras, Garcia, Politte, Pierzynski, Konerko, Crede, Uribe, Dye, Posednik, etc.

I hate the Yankees, but I've hated them since Billy Martin took George Brett's homerun away...not because they Steinbrenner invests in his team.

As for your last point, Jeter, Posada, and Rivera were all rookies in 1995, I believe the Yankees won the Series in 96, 98, 99, 00. I know that Jeter, Posada, and Rivera were all still on their first contract for the 96 and 98 series. And Bernie Williams and O'Neil never made a great deal of money. The only overpaid player on those teams was Clemens.
 
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(surrealvol @ Dec 21 said:
Being a Red Sox fan, this hacks me off a bit.

Baseball is fast becoming the sport of 'no loyalty, just show me the money and to heck with it'.
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Never fear my fellow Sox fan! We have over come worse! This too shall pass!
 
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(crimedawg12 @ Dec 22 said:
Never fear my fellow Sox fan! We have over come worse! This too shall pass!
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Hopefully for Red Sox Nation, it won't take another 86 years to overcome the curse of the Damonino... :eek:
 
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