YANKS SIGN DAMON!!! - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Duke41 · 12-21-2005, 09:06 AM

this is our unborn childs salute to Damon for his big trade and to the red sox front office the "ship of fools". Great work "idiots"!!

The Dad Fisherman · 12-21-2005, 09:20 AM

I'll go 50/50 on you with that....still don't see it as Damon's fault....but feel free to distribute it to the front office.....nice big copy for Larry Luchino

toddonbi · 12-21-2005, 11:35 AM

At least we will not have to see that idiotic segment on NESN "In style."with his wife. Man that drove me nuts. It will be interesting seeing Damon cover center as he was diving all the time in Fenway, not to mention they'll need the entire infield to relay his throws. I guess anybody on second has a freebie to home. Hate to see him go but such is the way of baseball today. Makes me miss Yaz all the more.

Mike P · 12-21-2005, 11:44 AM

Basically, with him and Matsui in the outfield, anyone on second can crawl home, and other teams will be going first-to-third all day long on anything hit to center. It's a big centerfield out there, much bigger than Fenway, and Matsui is almost as big a butcher defensively in left as Manny.

Is Damon gonna take two years off Randy Johnson and make him into the Big Unit again instead of the Big Eunuch? Mussina shows signs of slipping, too. Is he gonna transform Carl Pavano and Jared Wright into Cy Young candidates instead of career .500 pitchers? They still have lots of pitching issues to address

The Dad Fisherman · 12-21-2005, 11:52 AM

I'm beginning to think the thought process of Steinbrenner and the Boys on this one is "If we can't make our team better than we can make the Sox that much Weaker"

You're right about the pitching, they weren't Playoff caliber last year....and they are now a year older.

toddonbi · 12-21-2005, 12:00 PM

absolutely...Delilah Steinbrenner knows it's a kick in the nads for the Sox

fishsmith · 12-21-2005, 01:26 PM

"Looks like Jesus, throws like Mary" - that's awesome !!

Oh well, lets hope we got his best years, his arm did suck, but the guy is an on-base machine.
Graffanino will take his place, he owes us a .300+ season after letting the ball go thru his legs anyways...

Go Sox!!!!!