On The Damon Steal
lookoutlanding.com 25 days ago — It was a very heads-up play. Not a lot of guys would've been paying attention to third base in that situation, but Damon was thinking the whole time, and earned himself a free 90 feet. There was no risk - he saw that the base was uncovered and knew ...

Will Damon Head To San Fran?
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 15 days ago — From Jon Heyman : Boras strongly hinted that postseason hero Johnny Damon should be in line for another four-year contract from the Yankees by prominently mentioning that Jorge Posada received such a deal in his mid-30s, and Derek Jeter will surely get one next winter at the same stage. Boras ...

Where have you gone, Johnny Damon?
riveraveblues.com 10/13/2009 — Through the first five months of the season, Johnny Damon was sitting pretty. Playing out the last year of his Yankee contract, Damon was putting up a career year, and on Sept. 2, he was hitting .293/.373/.524. He had tied his career high in home ...

So, just how good was Damon’s steal?
hardballtimes.com 25 days ago — As I'm sure you all have heard, Johnny Damon took advantage of the shift to advance an extra base on a steal of second last night. While it was a very heads up and exciting play, it simply didn't have much of an impact on the game itself. As Jeff Sullivan of Lookout Landing notes : # ...

The play that changed the World Series
mlbnotebook.com 25 days ago — Thanks to a heads-up play by Johnny Damon and the Phillies playing the lefty power hitter shift defense, what could have been a World Series tied 2-2 is now a 3-1 Yankees series lead. Game 4 becomes an instant classic in the latest volume of World Series history. All becuase Johnny Damon ...  ...

Damon's instincts a treat for Yankees
sportingnews.com 25 days ago — PHILADELPHIA — Johnny Damon was entertaining reporters at the World Series the other day by reliving the joy he derives from being a trickster on Halloween. Seems Damon likes to hide in the bushes and scare the little ones when "they think ...

Yankees steal one, lead Series 3
lohud.com 25 days ago — PHILADELPHIA - Five years ago, when Johnny Damon beat the Yankees, he called himself an idiot. On Sunday night, when he put the Yankees one win away from a World Series title, he did it with his smarts. The Yankees had blown a one-run lead in the ...

Scott Boras has got some balls
yanksgoyard.com 16 days ago — Apparently Scott Boras is seeking a four-year deal for free-agent LF Johnny Damon, much longer than the 1 to 2 year deal the Yanks are looking to give him. Does Mr. Boras know that Damon is 36 years old? And can barely play the outfield? Nobody is denying what his bat can still do (and did [...]

Damon Should Stay- Not Because of Last Night
nybaseballdigest.com 25 days ago — Yankees outfielder Johnny Damon turns 36 Thursday. He will be a free-agent soon after. The club needs to keep him in the fold, not because of his stellar ninth-inning at-bat and instinctive double-steal that paved the way to the Yankees’ 7-4 win over the Phillies in Game 5 of the World Series ...

Damon: "There was a reason why I came here"
nydailynews.com 10/11/2009 — Johnny Damon came to the Yankees four years ago with the expectation that he would join Babe Ruth and Ramiro Mendoza as the only players to win championship rings with both the Yankees and Red Sox. It hasn’t quite worked out that way. Damon ...

Yankees Win, But National Public Radio Strikes Back — Bleacher Report - MLB 18 days ago
After a World Series like this last one, we Red Sox fans take a lot of consoling. It's never been fun watching one's sworn enemies' jubilation.  Where, oh where, can a Boston loyalist turn for some trace of comfort? Try National Public Radio.  ...

Red Sox pass on Alex Gonzalez — Red Sox & MLB - BostonHerald.com 18 days ago
Theo Epstein and his colleagues will be in Chicago to conduct a little business today, tomorrow and Wednesday at the annual general manager meetings. It would be a big...

Whitey impressed by Pettitte's perfect postseason — NY Post: Sports 18 days ago
From one October pitching legend to another: Job well done. Whitey Ford won't see Andy Pettitte anytime soon to deliver that message, but yesterday Ford told The Post he's extremely proud of the manner in which Pettitte performed this postseason as...

Sox, Williams have to-do list — Chicago Sun-Times :: Chicago White Sox :: 18 days ago
White Sox general manager Ken Williams heads to the GM meetings with a nice little to-do list, mostly because he has little money for free agency. Therein lies the rub.

Why the Yankees' World Series Win May Have Saved MLB — Bleacher Report - MLB 18 days ago
As a citizen of Toronto, Canada, I am thrilled that the New York Yankees have won the World Series. People around me have asked, "Shouldn't you be booing the New York Yankees because they knock out the Toronto Blue Jays from the playoffs every ...