Damon's New Look

LeiterFanatic · 12-23-2005, 11:45 PM

My God.... When was the last time MLB.com ran a feature on a haircut? I think Damon looks stupid, kinda like Wojo from Barney Miller.

Raderick · 12-24-2005, 12:22 AM

I now so hate the Yankees' clean cut policy after signing Johnny Damon.

KurtBevacqua · 12-24-2005, 04:29 AM

Is it just me or does it seem Damon gets an awful lot of publicity for a good, but not great player?

Andrew Jones and Grady Sizemore are much better players IMO, but they're not headline news when they groom themselves.

canadiancreed · 12-24-2005, 04:36 AM

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Originally Posted by KurtBevacqua

Is it just me or does it seem Damon gets an awful lot of publicity for a good, but not great player?

Andrew Jones and Grady Sizemore are much better players IMO, but they're not headline news when they groom themselves.

they probably didn't look like they just came from backwoods Maine yesterday either

and the reason why he gets a ot of attention? Boston and New York markets. Nuff said. Stick him in Kansas City and it'd be like he fell off the face of the earth

PotatoPeeler · 12-24-2005, 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by LeiterFanatic

I think Damon looks stupid...

Why? Because he looks normal? I thought he looked stupid with the beard and long hair.

I'm hardly a Yankees fan but I like their cleancut policy. Makes them look professional, which is more than anyone can say for the crew in Boston.

Jason Moyer · 12-24-2005, 08:26 AM

Spielman · 12-24-2005, 08:31 AM

I hope that, like Samson, Damon's powers are sapped by his shorn locks.

**** the Yankees.

sebastian0622 · 12-24-2005, 08:36 AM

I don't think I ever realized before how much Damon looks like Homo neanderthalensis.

Green & Gold Heart · 12-24-2005, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by canadiancreed

they probably didn't look like they just came from backwoods Maine yesterday either

and the reason why he gets a ot of attention? Boston and New York markets. Nuff said. Stick him in Kansas City and it'd be like he fell off the face of the earth

He was in Kansas City, you know.

And when he was there he I thought of him as just one of those annoying leadoff hitters on another team, but nobody special.

And I agree it's all because of Boston/New York.

MrWorkrate · 12-24-2005, 11:03 AM

What I love is all the "Judas" crap and how Bill Simmons bitterly talks about how it's "all about the money" and all that.

Damon spent NINE years with the Kansas City organization. He spent four with Boston. Those who complain about Damon "selling out" should have seen it coming in 2002 when Damon "sold out" to the highest bidder then - the Boston Red Sox.

Damon looked like he had a lot of fun with that 2004 Red Sox team, and understandibly so - I hate the Red Sox, and I would have liked to play for that team. But that team, some 14 months later, is long gone. Lowe, Martinez, Embree, Leskanic, Millar (soon enough), Bellhorn, Mueller, Cabrera, Kapler, Mientkiewicz, Roberts - all gone.

Loyality is something you show to a team you show to the team that drafted you and whose system you came up through, not the team you signed a free agent contract with in the middle of your career.

Green & Gold Heart · 12-24-2005, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by MrWorkrate

What I love is all the "Judas" crap and how Bill Simmons bitterly talks about how it's "all about the money" and all that.

Damon spent NINE years with the Kansas City organization. He spent four with Boston. Those who complain about Damon "selling out" should have seen it coming in 2002 when Damon "sold out" to the highest bidder then - the Boston Red Sox.

Damon looked like he had a lot of fun with that 2004 Red Sox team, and understandibly so - I hate the Red Sox, and I would have liked to play for that team. But that team, some 14 months later, is long gone. Lowe, Martinez, Embree, Leskanic, Millar (soon enough), Bellhorn, Mueller, Cabrera, Kapler, Mientkiewicz, Roberts - all gone.

Loyality is something you show to a team you show to the team that drafted you and whose system you came up through, not the team you signed a free agent contract with in the middle of your career.

^^^
Totally gets it.

Damon did get traded from KC to Oakland for the 2001 season, but they wouldn't have traded him if they knew they could have resigned him. They had to have known that he was going to bolt for the bucks as soon as he got the chance.

SoxWin · 12-24-2005, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by KurtBevacqua

Is it just me or does it seem Damon gets an awful lot of publicity for a good, but not great player?

It's all due to the hair and being part of the idiots that finally broke "the curse" imo. I'm thinking now that he's just another clean cut Yankee we'll be hearing a lot less about him.

The stories about him chasing cars down his street for exercise didn't hurt either.

Spielman · 12-24-2005, 05:38 PM

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Originally Posted by MrWorkrate

What I love is all the "Judas" crap and how Bill Simmons bitterly talks about how it's "all about the money" and all that.

Damon spent NINE years with the Kansas City organization. He spent four with Boston. Those who complain about Damon "selling out" should have seen it coming in 2002 when Damon "sold out" to the highest bidder then - the Boston Red Sox.

Damon looked like he had a lot of fun with that 2004 Red Sox team, and understandibly so - I hate the Red Sox, and I would have liked to play for that team. But that team, some 14 months later, is long gone. Lowe, Martinez, Embree, Leskanic, Millar (soon enough), Bellhorn, Mueller, Cabrera, Kapler, Mientkiewicz, Roberts - all gone.

Loyality is something you show to a team you show to the team that drafted you and whose system you came up through, not the team you signed a free agent contract with in the middle of your career.

Well, Simmons is a complete idiot about that stuff. I don't blame him for feeling pain, though, because the memory of the championship is now tainted by Damon's having to be reviled.

mikev · 12-24-2005, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by MrWorkrate

What I love is all the "Judas" crap and how Bill Simmons bitterly talks about how it's "all about the money" and all that.

Isn't it? I know nothing of Bill Simmons, but to say it wasn't for the money is laughable.

"There's no way I can go play for the Yankees, but I know they are going to come after me hard. It's definitely not the most important thing to go out there for the top dollar, which the Yankees are going to offer me. It's not what I need."

Damon, 5/2/2005

SoxWin · 12-24-2005, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by mikev

Isn't it? I know nothing of Bill Simmons, but to say it wasn't for the money is laughable.

"There's no way I can go play for the Yankees, but I know they are going to come after me hard. It's definitely not the most important thing to go out there for the top dollar, which the Yankees are going to offer me. It's not what I need."

Damon, 5/2/2005

Athletes say **** like that all the time because it's what the fans want to hear. Damon has Boras as an agent so anyone who believed him when he said it wasn't about the money is being more then a little naive.

mikev · 12-24-2005, 05:47 PM

I didn't believe it one bit, I just wondered why somebody would take Bill Simmons to task for saying that Damon did it for the money. He DID do it for the money.

sebastian0622 · 12-24-2005, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by mikev

I didn't believe it one bit, I just wondered why somebody would take Bill Simmons to task for saying that Damon did it for the money. He DID do it for the money.

Of course, it's not likely Simmons would turn down CBS Sportsline dot net dot com dot org if they offered him a lot more money than he is making now.

Sublimity · 12-27-2005, 10:54 AM

This just in: Bill Simmons doesn't blame Damon.

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Originally Posted by Bill Simmons on December 23rd

For every Bruschi or Varitek who values teammates, fans and community over his market value, 19 Damons leap at the highest offer and never look back. That's the way sports work. That's the way life works. So why would anyone be shocked by Damon's choice this week? Did you really think someone who wrote an autobiography in which he bragged about adultery would do the right thing? More important, what WAS the right thing? Is it even for us to say?

For instance, let's say your buddy has spent eight quality years working for a law firm. He loves everyone in his office, loves his job, never imagines going anywhere else ... and then another law firm comes swooping in and offers him a partnership and big bucks. And let's say he asked you for advice. Well, you know what you would do? You would tell him to take the big bucks. You would. I'm telling you ... you would. And when he does so, you would praise him for doing the right thing for his family. That's the way life works. With sports, for whatever reason, we expect athletes to do the right thing ... for us, not for them. When they choose themselves, we act like they mailed us a pile of dog poop. Somehow they're the ones being selfish.

Fans can be incredibly unrealistic and naive. We expect athletes to maintain an unyielding loyalty to their current cities, even if they have been playing there for only 3-4 years. We expect them to understand the "importance" of something like the Sox-Yanks rivalry, to think exactly like us, to say to themselves, "Wait, I can't switch sides to the Yankees, that's our archrival!" We expect them to feel hatred for the teams that WE don't like, ignoring the fact that rivalries thrive solely because of the fan bases, because we're the ones keeping them alive. And we expect them to turn down Godfather offers out of loyalty to their fans, only we'll turn on them the moment they start struggling.

How is that fair? Last season, Damon watched from afar as some Boston fans turned on Millar, Embree, Bellhorn, Foulke and even Schilling -- five key members of the Greatest Comeback In Sports History -- and probably wondered to himself, "Wait, I'm supposed to remain loyal to them?"

It's a two-way street. We always forget this. When our favorite players struggle and we start grumbling and bitching, the message always remains the same: "Hey, he's making a ton of money, I spend my hard-earned money on tickets, it's my right as a fan to boo." You never hear the word "loyalty" mentioned. Ever. These guys are only as good as their last few games. History rarely matters, which is fine, because that's part of the bargain. Most players seem to understand that. But if that's the case, why should we expect them to remain loyal to us?

Throw in Boston's floundering front office, which pursued Damon this winter with the same enthusiasm of Nicole Richie halfheartedly poking at a Caesar salad, and this seemed like a foregone conclusion. Damon would leave the Red Sox, it was just a question of where. Last week I appeared on two different Boston sports radio stations and predicted the Yankees would sign him

spleen1015 · 12-27-2005, 11:06 AM

Bill Simmons is a complete idiot. How that guy guy writes for a national organization is beyond me.

Bill Simmons is a piece of garbage.
The Yankees suck monkey balls.

Oh, and Damon is just another piece that doesn't fit into a championship puzzle for the Yankees.

abailey3313 · 12-27-2005, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Spielman

because the memory of the championship is now tainted by Damon's having to be reviled.

Wow.

12-23-2005, 11:45 PM	#1
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Raderick Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: San Diego, California Posts: 2,737	I now so hate the Yankees' clean cut policy after signing Johnny Damon. __________________

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KurtBevacqua Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 2,968	Is it just me or does it seem Damon gets an awful lot of publicity for a good, but not great player? Andrew Jones and Grady Sizemore are much better players IMO, but they're not headline news when they groom themselves. __________________ "The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man" - William Graham Sumner

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12-24-2005, 08:31 AM	#7
Spielman All Star Starter Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: South Carolina Posts: 1,668	I hope that, like Samson, Damon's powers are sapped by his shorn locks. **** the Yankees. __________________ Spielman was at one time the smartest person on these boards. http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...martest+Person I don't believe in AnotherAlias.

12-24-2005, 08:36 AM	#8
sebastian0622 Banned Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,465	I don't think I ever realized before how much Damon looks like Homo neanderthalensis.

12-24-2005, 11:03 AM	#10
MrWorkrate All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 1,262	What I love is all the "Judas" crap and how Bill Simmons bitterly talks about how it's "all about the money" and all that. Damon spent NINE years with the Kansas City organization. He spent four with Boston. Those who complain about Damon "selling out" should have seen it coming in 2002 when Damon "sold out" to the highest bidder then - the Boston Red Sox. Damon looked like he had a lot of fun with that 2004 Red Sox team, and understandibly so - I hate the Red Sox, and I would have liked to play for that team. But that team, some 14 months later, is long gone. Lowe, Martinez, Embree, Leskanic, Millar (soon enough), Bellhorn, Mueller, Cabrera, Kapler, Mientkiewicz, Roberts - all gone. Loyality is something you show to a team you show to the team that drafted you and whose system you came up through, not the team you signed a free agent contract with in the middle of your career. __________________ I used to come here a lot. Now, not so much.

12-24-2005, 05:47 PM	#16
mikev Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Bay Area, CA Posts: 4,014	I didn't believe it one bit, I just wondered why somebody would take Bill Simmons to task for saying that Damon did it for the money. He DID do it for the money. __________________ Global Unified Baseball Association - Vice Commish and Oakland Oaks GM

12-27-2005, 11:06 AM	#19
spleen1015 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 6,000	Bill Simmons is a complete idiot. How that guy guy writes for a national organization is beyond me. Bill Simmons is a piece of garbage. The Yankees suck monkey balls. Oh, and Damon is just another piece that doesn't fit into a championship puzzle for the Yankees.