What would you do?

[TheRivernator]

gammons weighed in on the topic....

 

On the Damon reaction at Fenway:

 

“I thought it went a little bit over the top. I don’t understand the mentality of someone spending hours at home making up some obscene sign. It wasn’t like he was an electric personality here… he was very popular here but it wasn’t like Pedro or Clemens, he didn’t depart simply because of money. It was a prolonged kind of a mixed-up negotiation. And the one thing about him, he always played hard, he played hurt, and he was always accountable. I don’t know, I just didn’t think it needed to be quite so insane.

 

"I sit down there and I listen to people stand up there with their kids on either side of them scream obscenities at Derek Jeter like their big people because they’ve got a fence in between them and the field so, I guess if that’s what makes people happy… I think sports can be fun too. There are a lot of people that don’t think it’s fun… I just thought that, in Damon’s case, one thing about him… I like Roger a lot, but he did say that, he did complain about things like carrying his bags, and he did go to Toronto and say that he loved it because it was so much like Houston, and Pedro left town with guns blazing because of his relationship with Schilling. But I just thought that the way Damon was always very respectful of the fans… I did not think taking out that ad in the Globe was phony in the least, I think Johnny’s pretty genuine, but that’s it, he’s moved on and I’ll say this, I found this really interesting, Don Mattingly made, and this surprised me, he said to me ‘you know, Damon has really changed our team’… this team had become so businesslike, and so uptight the last three years, Damon is sort of goofy, he comes in everyday with a big smile on his face, he’s up to something, he’s always accountable to the media. He said ‘he’s really changed our personality for the better.’ And if that’s true, and I believe Mattingly’s got a pretty good finger on that team as hitting coach and future manager, then I think that’s pretty interesting. I think the Yankees got more than they thought they got when they signed him."

[seabeachfred]

Hey Riverman, Damon's defection to your team upset Red Sox fans simply because he said he would NEVER sign with the Yankees if he ever left the Red Sox. He said he never could bring himself to do it since he loved Boston, the Red Sox, the Red Sox fans and the organization. Well we all know happened. He lied through his teeth and that is what got Red Sox fans in a lather. Having said that it is my opinion we have to turn the page and get on with our program. We have to take care of your team in order to go all the way this year and that will be hard enough without having to get bogged down with anti Damon venom. We Red Sox fans think we can take the Yankees this year but we can't if we spend too much time concentrating on Johnny Damon. He is yours and we all have to love on.