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RIP, Caveman
“I want to stay here, but I may walk and go home. I might shut it down in a couple of years.“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.
“I’d like to finish my career here [Boston]. I’m not sure they’ll let me do it, if they offer me [only] two or three years [on a contract]. I want at least four or five.
—Johnny Damon, 5/01/05, on MLB.com
Granted, you’re not actually dead…but you’re dead to us.
All over Red Sox Nation this morning, people are tearing the “What Would Johnny Damon Do?” bumper stickers off their cars. Unfrozen Caveman Outfielder has turned to The Dark Side. He’ll be a horrible fit in Steinbrenner’s uptight empire, but obviously that’s not as important to him as the money. Of course, the Sox “management” is also to blame for incorrectly assuming that no one would shell out the megabucks he wanted, but they’re not the ones who will be standing in center field in Fenway next year, wearing the disgusting, cursed pinstripes of the Enemy, as boos and beercups and batteries rain down on them.
Perhaps Judas Damon should’ve had a talk with David Wells about how those who switch sides in this bitter rivalry are treated.
