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Yeah sure, I'd like to see Damon make the throw from RF to 3B.

Congratulations.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/13489985.htm Millwood to the Rangers

I don't know if I am leaving anyone out, but assuming Wells gets traded, I have 11 locks for the pitching staff. If Millwood gets signed Arroyo or Clement get moved. 1. Schilling 2. Beckett 3. Wake 4. Arroyo 5. Clement 6. Papelbon 7. Mota 8. Foulke 9. Timlin 10. Seanez 11. DiNardo I doubt that they will take more than 11 pitchers north in April. Who would Lester replace?

A SS and CF are more important.

I'd be very surprised if he made the opening day bullpen.

It's a long list, and not about to go researching names about an issue that ML pitching coaches have acknowledged. I'm not even sure 170+ inning is the magic #. For some guys it may be 150. It depends on their development. Roy Halladay had a significant drop off in performance after throwing 200+ innnings. He had shoulder problems and was basically innefective. Dontrelle Willis experience a tired arm and ineffectiveness in his second year after throwing around 150 innings in his first year. Chris Carpenter's ERA ballooned to over 6 after throwing around 150 innings. The theory about young pitchers and innings is out there in the ML mainstream. You do the research and disprove it. Are there any predictions as to Papelbon's innings this year? I am going with 140.

The boing stopped, because Jeter went on a hitting tearand Mo didn'y blow a save formonths, not because Yankee fans got a collective hold of themselves and decided it was wrong. Damon must have a learning disability if he thinks he can go to the Yank without RSN hating him. He saw the rivalry up close for 4 years. He must be a little slow.

The cheers were fairly loud, many were standing and there were no boos.

pick one jsinger 170 or 180.

He won't be there for long. Someone in the rotation will start slow or come up lame and he'll be in the rotation, but I dont see him putting up alot of innings before June. If they work this kid to 170+ innings in a penant race, they could permanently damage him. It's too big a risk and he's too valuable to screw him up. Why don't we each predict his innings and see what happens. I am in at 140.

I think most of us feel the same way about Damon, but he's on the enemy list for the next 4 years.

140 innings at the ML level is a little different. Hitters at the ML level are more selective. His pitch count in 140 ML innings will be equate to several more innings at the AA level.

What bad things did Wells do? I know he wore Babe Ruth's hat when he pitched a game, and that he missed the Sports Illustrated Cover Picture with the rest of the Yankee staff, and that he likes to shoot nose rockets on the mound, but nothing bad. As for Sox fans taking things too far, what in the world are you talking about. Damon was never booed in Fenway, and he had a loyal following of Red Sox fans from coast to coast. Are you talking about some of the stupid posts on various boards? Well, I don't think Johnny D. or Jeter or any of them read our crap, especially not Damon who is apparently learning disabled.

The players should limit endorsements to food chains like Dunkin Donuts. There are very few scams involving donuts.

I wouldn't push the kid beyond 140 innings this year. Let him build up to 180-200 in another year.

I don't take any of this personally. My post was a little long, and I did go off on a tangent, but there was no animus involved. Note, not a single exclamation point or demeaning statement in that post. Don't be reluctant to post, but if you say something collosally stupid, you have to expect that I will call you on it. And occasionally, I can't resist giving a history lesson, because I am old. There's nothing personal about it. Heck, three-quarters of my family are Yankee fans, and I only hate half of them.

lol!! I hope you enjoyed your time in Boston. You'll have to pardon me-- low blood sugar before the Christmas feast. Merry Christmas.

Dude I have lived almost my entire life in NY and I work in the heart of the city. I didn't say he could walk down the street unnoticed. I said that his egotistical, wanabee wife could walk down Broadway and no one would notice. And that is dead on balls accurate. Living behind enemy lines, I have a perspective that most people on theis Board don't. The truth is that Boston is much more focused on the Red Sox than NY is on the Yankees. In Boston, every waitress and cop and cab driver knows the players. They know who is scheduled to pitch on any given night. NY is nuch different. Half the people wouldn't know how to get to Yankee stadium. NY is too big, and there are lots of other distractions. Boston is more intense about its baseball. Damon will have a much better chance of walking the streets in NY without people noticing. In Boston, he would draw a crowd from blocks around. If you don't believe me, go spend a week in Boston. That's all it will take. You think your parade down the Valley of Heroes is a big deal. The Red Sox victory parade had people that drove from California and 3 attended. You cant's jam that many people in the Valley of Heroes if you stacked them on top of each other. Go onto a Manhattan street and ask people how they feel about getting Damon. You'll get some blank looks. Ask the question on Boylston Street and you'll get an earful. Merry Xmas.

Okay moderators, I promised no personal insult, and this in not personal, but this quote is completely idiotic. We still love what Damon did for RSN, but we root for the uniform not the individual. We hate anything in pinstripes. He should be expecting it, and being the mercenary that he is, it won't even bother him. What will bother him will be that he will blend into the crowd in NY, and his egotistical little wife will be able to walk down Broadway without being noticed.

My sentiments exactly. The whole operation became dysfunctional after Theo left. We were lulled into a false sense of security when they pulled off the Beckett move. At that point, the team needed a few tweaks to get it back to championship caliber, but then the wheels fell off. They moved Renteria for a prospect, and I thought to free up some payroll to sign Damon. They were caught napping in the Damon fiasco. Now, they have holes at SS and CF, and in filling these hole, they will probably spend more $ by taking bad contracts and trading prospects than it would have cost them to show Damon the love and sign him. They had a good plan to start, which was to rebuild the rotation and the bullpen. They did a good job with that, but losing Damon was not part of their plan, no matter what some of the experts on this board think. They failed to execute their plan. Someone needs to be held accountable. John Henry has to figure out where the breakdown in process ocurred and fix it before it rears its head again. I'll tell you one thing, if Theo was the GM, they don't get blind-sided. They might not have signed Damon, but Theo would have been plugged into that process 24/7. Nothing would have happened without him knowing about it. Lucchino should swallow some pride and get Theo back.

I like that idea. I hope it catches on. And you can't hurt anyone by throwing a beard.

We root for the uniform, and we root against anything wearing pinstripes. There is no spite involved. Damon saw the passion up close for 4 years. He went to the other side. He should know that he is now the enemy. He needs the cold slap of a hooting crowd to snap him into that reality. There ain't no more love in Fenway for him. Bob Gibson used to room with Bill White and they were the best of friends. Gibby told White that if they ever faced each other that White would not be his friend on the field. After White was traded to the Phillies, Gibby drilled him in the back in his first AB. No spite, just not friends on the field. The Fenway Faithful will figuratively drill Johnny when he steps to the plate on May 1st.

Doesn't matter. They lost him, Rocket and Wells in one off-season. That was a really bad off-season, and all 3 are still good pitchers. Yikes, Red Sawx fans would have been throwing themselves into the Charles.