An Open Letter to Johnny Damon

I did do my research... the Red Sox never got the option to match because they alienated Damon so much with the low-ball offers and talk about trading for Jeremy Reed... .

Are there ONLY Red Sox fans and Yankees fans?

I did do my research... the Red Sox never got the option to match because they alienated Damon so much with the low-ball offers and talk about trading for Jeremy Reed... .

That's sheer speculation, which goes to my point - it's debatable. To call a thread foolish because you don't agree with a debatable premise is, well, ...

FWIW, I think you are wrong. He left because he knew that Steinbrenner would pay him more than anyone else could afford to. He's a decent bat with an average arm. $40 million isn't lowball for that - nobody outside NY would offer him that much. The fact that they did, doesn't mean he's worth it or that the Sox offer was lowball.

He's an upgrade for the Stankees - no argument there. But he's another sign of what's wrong with FA in baseball.

I did do my research... the Red Sox never got the option to match because they alienated Damon so much with the low-ball offers and talk about trading for Jeremy Reed... .
Boras and Lucchino have a tumultuous relationship and Boras was idiotically seeking a 7 year deal for a guy is 32.
The Sox make an initial offer of 40 over 4 and never hear back from them? That's called being disloyal. The deserved to at least know what the heck was going on. The only reason this happened is that Boras and Lucchino don't get along and Damon just did whatever his agent said without regard for loyalty. I doubt the Sox would have matched but the disloyalty cries would far more muted had he given them oppotunity.

The Yankees got the same 7 year offer, yet they got the job done.
Calling someone out as a traitor is sour grapes and poor sportsmanship...which I believe is foolish.
Damon was great for the Sox, he helped bring them the prize that they had been after for decades.
Yet when he leaves... this is the thanks he gets?
I never said that he didn't sign with the Yankees for the money... of course he did.
I said that he didn't offer the Sox the ability to match because of the ill will.
The Red Sox front office did a terrible job with this...

I just get sick of the Yankees and Red Sox. Question: Do ya'll think anyone would watch baseball if it weren't for those two teams? People jump on both bandwagons just to have someone to hate.

I just get sick of the Yankees and Red Sox. Question: Do ya'll think anyone would watch baseball if it weren't for those two teams? People jump on both bandwagons just to have someone to hate.

I don't like either of them. I hate the Stankees, but I just dislike the BoSox.

I'm not a fan of either of the teams (I'm a Phillies fan)...
but I love the rivalry, despite the salary war.
I live in central CT, which is the dividing line between the two fanbases.

Baseball needs fixing. I am so done with it. And baseball is MY SPORT. I grew up playing it and then coaching it. Too bad a bunch of idiot owners and players have screwed it up so bad. How did all the reasonable sports figures end up in football? Not that all in football are reasonable just that the reasonable ones seem to populate football and baseball.