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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 27, 2010 -> 04:04 PM) Damon's people will flat out reject that, from what we can tell. Yeah looks like the Rays are swooping in at 7mil for him. Rays Interested In Johnny Damon By Mark Polishuk [January 27 at 3:41pm CST] The Rays have interest in Johnny Damon as a DH candidate, reports Joel Sherman of the New York Post. Sherman says the Rays are considering Damon even if they can't unload Pat Burrell. Sherman's sources believe Damon would be willing to play for $7MM, partially deferred. Too bad...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 27, 2010 -> 02:30 PM) Damon is somewhere between bad and very bad in the field. He still has the ability to play it, but you only really want him playing out there if your other option is something like Adam Dunn or Jermaine Dye or Vlad Guerrero, where they're either terrible or likely to get hurt if they play the field. I think at this point, if anyone offered Damn $8 million a year, he'd be happy to DH full time. But no one's come anywhere close to his asking price. His camp started floating retirement rumors earlier this week. 8 million? Screw that - offer him 4 plus incentives. Get it done KW!!

QUOTE (Princess Dye @ Jan 27, 2010 -> 09:59 AM) 4:45pm: Jeff Fletcher at AOL FanHouse says that Damon is unlikely to end up in Oakland. GM Billy Beane says a utility infielder is the priority now. mlbtraderumors I wish the Sox would just go ahead and announce the Johnny Damon signing so I can quit refreshing so much

QUOTE (Kenny Hates Prospects @ Jan 27, 2010 -> 09:50 AM) Great post. And they're serious about Mauer too. I think they'll keep him. These are the new Twins, and they plan on kicking our asses through the next decade. Hopefully Kenny and Ozzie wake up. I ain't scared. Do you think that KW will just stand by and allow the twins to run all over the Sox? Nope... Old twins new twins who cares... In Kenny I trust...

QUOTE (whtsoxfan @ Jan 26, 2010 -> 04:28 PM) A 1-2 punch of Pierre/Damon will mean an RBI feast for the #3-4-5 hitters in the Sox lineup!! But what would that mean for Beckham? Where would he bat? Would he try swing for the fences much more often than he would hitting in the 2 hole?

I don't know if it's been mentioned here on soxtalk.com (it probably has) but what about Johnny Damon? He is a lefty, can still play in the field on a part time basis, can still hit, and his price has seemingly dropped like a rock. There's your versatility, Ozzie. At the beginning of the offseason, I was thinking no way. But now that the pickins' are slim.... it might not be a bad idea.

Do we have to pay all of his salary??

QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 25, 2010 -> 04:03 PM) What about Alexei's flip and Uribe's World Series dive? http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200...12&c_id=cws http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/media/play...b_tp350&v=2 I hate that Jeter gets so much credit for a similar catch, and hardly anyone other than White Sox fans talk about Uribe's catch.

Iguchi's diving play or D Wizzle's perfect game saving catch or Derek Jeter's backhand flip to Posada to nail Giambi in the 2001 ALDS Which one is the coolest?

QUOTE (flavum @ Jan 25, 2010 -> 09:07 AM) This needs to stop asap. Oops. Teahen?

Rios - I hope his contract actually becomes a bargain. Mark "Bruiser" Teahen - I hope the change of scenery does him well.

QUOTE (Springfield SoxFan @ Jan 24, 2010 -> 12:54 PM) I could not agree more, this is all part of his plan. I too agree wholeheartedly. I'm telling you KW is going to come up with something that'll make us all say WTF???

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 23, 2010 -> 10:52 PM) You have a very warped sense of right and wrong. Why... Because you don't agree with me? No. IMO, I'm dead on.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Jan 22, 2010 -> 10:02 AM) Gary Matthews Jr to the Mets Wow... I wonder how that will work out. I guess the Angels will pick up most of the salary remaining. I wonder how long it'll be before Minaya is shown the door?

I still believe that Kenny Williams has something up his sleeve. Either they've seen Andruw Jones hit and they feel like he's finally figured it out, or KW is going to make a move that will have us all going WTF???

QUOTE (AJ Hellraiser @ Jan 21, 2010 -> 03:54 PM) Adam Dunn is really the missing piece to the puzzle.. he's literally the PERFECT fit... power, lefty bat who draws a lot of walks... could hit 50+ homers in The Cell... could play a little first or LF and DH... He's also in the final year of the short contract with the Nationals and I assume could be had if the package is right... what does everyone think it would take to land him? Morel and Retherford? Retherford and a pitcher? I'd like him but does he strike out too much?

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 21, 2010 -> 01:12 PM) "This is a red X in a box"...

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 21, 2010 -> 01:08 PM) Is it any worse than calling a hall-of-famer a "lil girl", in the name of defending Deion friggin Sanders? Yeah... a hall of famer kicking and screaming like a lil girl because someone won't run as fast as they can on a routine pop up. That's worse.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 21, 2010 -> 12:48 PM) Nothing. You have to read both the post and the quoted material to understand the context in which it was written. The comment was in response to a situation. That Fisk should have stayed out of another team's player's business. Fisk has said he was defending the integrity of the game or something like that. You can think he's an asshole, that's your opinion. I was defending Fisk's decision to one up Neon Deon for whatever reason. Interestingly, the original poster would have had no problem if punches were thrown, but yelling was out of line. No... I had a problem with fisk trying to "one up" Deion. How is yelling and screaming like a lil girl at an opposing teams player just because he doesn't run to first as fast as he would have defending the integrity of the game? Deion should have defended his integrity and punched fisk in his grill.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 03:35 PM) Deion was disgracing the game and the Yankee pinstripes. I hate the damn Yankees as much as anybody, but they do have a tradition of great baseball. I wish Fisk would have stomped him into a greasy spot. I too hate the yanks, but fisk needed to mind his own team's business. How would you like if someone from the yanks said something about the way Beckham plays the game? If I were the yankees pitchers in that game, fisk would have gotten drilled until the benches cleared, then got his face caved in. Keep your nose out of other team's business. Yeah, he's a red sox.

I would not be surprised one bit if Andruw Jones was in the running for the comeback player of the year award. Think about it.... what if the guy can just somehow hit about .275 (wishful thinking I know) and 35 HRs and shows flashes of his former defensive prowess? I wonder if CQ will be pissed if he has to become the full time DH...

QUOTE (BigEdWalsh @ Jan 20, 2010 -> 10:10 AM) His quote to Neon Deion ("If you don't play it [the game] right, I'm going to kick your ass right here.") could be applied to McGwire and other roiders. For that alone, ya gotta love the guy. Which is exactly why I wish Deion Sanders would have punched him right in the throat and knocked him on his arse. Did fisk invent the game? How can he tell someone on an opposing team that he's not playing the game "right"? what a pompous a-hole. Yeah... he forever belongs in a red sox uniform.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jan 19, 2010 -> 09:42 PM) I'm glad Fisk spoke out on this. He was a stud. As far as being a jerk, Chet, are you basing this on this article or insider knowledge? I never heard Fisk was a total dick. No this is just my opinion. It's just how I FEEL that he's a tool... Like the Deion Sanders incident - I'm no Deion Sanders fan, but I wish he would have punched Fisk right in his grill and told him to mind his own damn business and worry about his own teamates.

I wonder just how much that perfect game and the game afterwards really took out of him. He probably should have been shut down when it was obvious that the Sox weren't going anywhere.

Carlton Fisk has to be my LEAST favorite Sox of all time. To me, he comes across as a pompous, arrogant jerk. He's a good representative of the sox all right.... the RED SOX, which is the team that I'll always identify him with. Oh yeah, I went to high school with his son too, and he's a tool just like his old man...