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Thank you. Now, I feel that I have some reliable information about the guy. Let us know whatever you find out about him. IMO first hand information from someone that works with him is much better than written reports on prospect sites. Of course you know that if the Yankees sign him, Jacko will post that he is the next Pedro, and if we get him, he'll be a disaster who will bring ruin to Fenway, but that is to be expected.

Jackson has calmed down into a good poster from his prior incarnation under another username. He annoys people, because he is a Yankee fan. Most of you are not used to being around Yankee fans so he gets under your skin. I am surrounded by them, and I can tell you that on the "annoying scale," for Yankee fans, he is average.

Watch it with the insults. We have standards here, and you have 38 posts.

Welcome. I am happy that you have an interest in a least one real sport.

"Fliners" That is very funny.

I'll wait for Dipre's evaluation.

If Dipre was here, he could tell us how good this kid is.

It took them along time to return to Baltimore-- more than 50 years.

I really wouldn't hold my breath on this. The ending there was quite ugly. Other than Milwaukee, that set attendance records in the 1950's and led in attendance for several years, what city has baseball returned to after it left and been successful? I don't count Seattle. The Pilots lasted 1 year. That was a complete botch job. I don't count NY either, because baseball never entirely left NY, and the Dodgers left because of stadium issues with NYC, not because the franchise could not succeed. Washington has had two failed franchises and they seem to be in the midst of a third failure. Kansas City is the only one that I can think of.

This is one of those cases where the written words and statistics fail to convey an accurate picture. Personal histories and experiences need to fill the gaps to give an accurate picture. Saying what you said above is like people who are not from Massachusetts mispronouncing Worcester, Ma, or people not from NY pronouncing Houston Street like the City of Houston. Let me set the record straight. My Dad grew up walking distance from Ebbetts Field and he spent a lot of his youth there. He was born in 1918. I asked him about this Brooklyn Robins thing years ago. The Brooklyn team became the Dodgers in 1911. In 1913 or 1914, Wilbert Robinson was hired to be the manager. The franchise renamed themselves the Robins in his honor. Not surprisingly, the fans still called them the Dodgers, because no one likes the manager after all. I don't know how the newspaper accounts treated things in those days, but the community never took to the "Robins" name. The important fact to note in making the comparison to the Expos is that, whether they were called the Superbas, Dodgers, Trolley Dodgers, or Robins, it was the same franchise in Brooklyn from 1890 to 1955. They had a lot more history in the community than the Expos had in Montreal.

This signing is a huge gamble. I'm shocked that a post-surgical pitcher less than 1 year removed from surgery is going to get $10 million and Damon is fighting for table scraps. The Red Sox agreed to pay Hermida, a backup, more than the Yankees were willing to pay Damon. Last year it was the Abreu signing for only $5 million that baffled me. I still don't understand how the Mets didn't scoop him up as desperate as they were for outfielders.

Montreal was more significant to baseball history because it was the AAA Affiliate to the Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson first broke the color barrier game there before they brought him to Brooklyn. The Expos were an embarrassment of a franchise. As has been pointed out, they had man great players, but yet they could never draw fans or make money and they ended up as a MLB welfare case. Every major league franchise that has existed is represented in other exhibits in the Hall. There's no reason to make Dawson wear a hat of a defunct and failed franchise that never had many fans. When he is inducted there will probably be more people that will make the trip from Chicago than Montreal

This Newsflash just in: Roger Clemens has stated that he will not attend his induction unless he is wearing a Yankee cap on his plaque. I think he'd go in wearing a ski cap about now. He used to piss me off with that BS.

They are going to make him go in with an Expos hat. They aren't even a team anymore. There is no history for that team like the Brooklyn Dodgers. Are there any Expos fans that are nostalgic for baseball? Let him go in with the Cubs hat. http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Baseball-Hall-of-Fame-denies-Andre-Dawson-Cubs-request-must-enter-as-Expo-012710

I was joking, but I am still not convinced that Cameron is as good as Damon offensively.

Well, after this season, we will get the chance to compare how Cameron does at Fenway to how Damon did. Of course, we will have to factor in weather and climate changes.

But you can predict the relative rates at which two people age.