'IT SUCKS': DAMON FURIOUS AT BEING NAMED ON FALSE STEROID LIST
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Damon angered over false steroids report
Published 12/15/2007 by Andrew Fletcher at Scott Proctor's Arm - A New York Yankees Blog
... "I asked my agent about legal action, but he said it wasn't worth it. Maybe the president [of NBC] will write me a nice letter." (New York Post) ...
Damon mad at NBC, bloggers
Published 12/15/2007 by Ben K. at River Ave. Blues
... Johnny Damon’s name appeared on that bogus list early Thursday that we at RAB refused to publish. On Friday, he lashed out at those who printed the list, and as you could guess, he wasn’t happy. ...
N.Y. Post: ‘IT SUCKS’: DAMON FURIOUS AT BEING NAMED ON FALSE STEROID LIST (RR)
Published 12/15/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
N.Y. Post: ‘IT SUCKS’: DAMON FURIOUS AT BEING NAMED ON FALSE STEROID LIST (RR) While others on the Dienst List seemed not to care. Damon discovered that he was on the NBC list when he heard from his family.“I woke up and my brother is telling me there are reporters at my father’s house,” Damon told The Post. “My dad told them, ‘My son isn’t a liar, my son doesn’t lie.’” The center fielder was furious, and considered suing the station. “It sucks, I am wondering if there is any legal course to turn to,” Damon said. “I walk around with my shirt off. If I had anything to ...
Damon is pissed off
Published 12/16/2007 by JMM at MY BASEBALL BIAS
And I don’t blame him.
Some idiot at a WNBC-TV in NYC wrongly reported that Johnny Damon and others would be named in the Mitchell report before it’s release on Thursday.
He was flat wrong:
Forty-one of the players named by WNBC were not mentioned in the Mitchell report, including big-name stars like Albert Pujols, Jason Varitek, Nomar Garciaparra, Mets catcher Ramon Castro and Yankees slugger Johnny Damon.
Damon discovered that he was on the NBC list when he heard from his family.
“I woke up and my brother is ...
Monday Morning Pig Poop
Published 12/17/2007 by flyingpig at Real Sports Bloggers
... Other players sited on the WNBC report who did show up on the Mitchell report include Albert Pujols, Jason Varitek, Nomar Garciaparra and Mets catcher Ramon Castro. I wonder if those guys are pissed off too. POOP!!! ...
Scorecard: Tracking the Impact of the Mitchell Report
Published 12/17/2007 by Maury Brown at The Biz of Baseball
... 'IT SUCKS': DAMON FURIOUS AT BEING NAMED ON FALSE STEROID LIST Research by Maury Brown - From various sources. Maury Brown is the founder and president of the ...
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