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Re: To boo Johnny Damon, or not to boo Johnny Damon: that, is the question <FONT COLOR=BLACK><b>[</font>Reply to #<a href="read.pl?1-3329">3329</a>]</b>
5/1/06, 3:53pm
I'm interested, Conor, in where you get your info.

Johnny claimed from the get-go that there was another team in the mix.

And I know from almost the horse's mouth that Johnny said he WOULDN'T take a hometown discount...repeatedly throughout last season to anyone who would listen.

The Red Sox really didn't get to 'negotiate'.  They made that offer (a damn good offer) and Johnny didn't even refuse it, he just jumped over to the Yankees.

We agree about Johnny not being worth the contract G$ gave him.  Which is just more proof of two things for me, the contract the Red Sox offered was a very good one...and Johnny ended up signing a contract exactly where he wanted.

"without Damon in 2004 the streak continues and this year would be 88 years. "

You could say that about any one of the guys on the 2004 team.  That's a weak argument.  Johnny got all the cheers he deserved last year.  Why, exactly, do we have to cheer him now that he's in pinstripes?

"I don't know for certain, but as a Red Sox fan who was lucky enough to witness A-Rod's home run ball being tossed back over the monster , just to have Damon throw it right back over (and have it tossed back again after that), dave Robert's stolen base in the 9th inning, and Papi's home run to win it and turn the series around during Game 4 of the ALCS in 2004, I'd be a completely different fan right now. "

Just out of curiosity...how long have you been a fan?  I've been a fan since the early/mid 70s.  No player is bigger than the team...not even Johnny Damon.

And how soon people forget how poorly Johnny played in the 2004 ALCS.  And that, without his 6 rbi in game 7, the Sox still win.

Not saying what he did in game 7 wasn't HUGE...it sure was...but he didn't win it alone.  Not by a longshot.

[redsoxchick from Boston/MA]
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