keitholbermann.mlblogs.com - 20 days ago
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Inspired by Johnny Damon's double-stolen base in Game Four on
Sunday, I thought it was time to salute a part of the game rarely acknowledged
and even more rarely listed among its greatest appeals to the fan. What they
once quaintly called "good brain-work": the nine Smartest Plays ...
fenwaywest.com - 19 days ago
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fenwaywest.com —
As Red Sox Nation sits down on their
collective couches hoping for an implosion in the Bronx,
we continue to look at Johnny Damon with wonder. Here is a 35 year old outfielder that has had a physical metamorphosis only equalled to classic rocker Jim Morrison. Finishing the regular season with ...
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Johnny Damon had value
lookoutlanding.com - 21 days ago
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lookoutlanding.com —
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 ...
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On The Damon Steal
lohud.com - 21 days ago
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lohud.com —
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 ...
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Yankees steal one, lead Series 3
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... beat Jeter to the base and tagged him out. Worse -- or better, depending on your perspective -- Jeter slammed into Huckaby's body armor and missed the next six weeks of the season. I wonder, though ... Who covered the plate in Huckaby's absence? * Also seriously, Keith Olbermann comes up with the nine smartest plays in World Series history . * For those of you interested in such things, here's ...
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No, You're a Towel —
... Rivera closes--just like old times. The night Rivera gets over his postseason past and the Yankees start a new chapter. And the night that the Yankees win World Series #27. Let's hope that it's more than a feeling.
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Some great stuff from around the blogosphere on Johnny Damon's amazing double steal. River Avenue Blues calls it "Jeterian" (sort of). Jayson Stark calls it "historical". Big League Stew calls it "instinctual". Keith Olbermann calls it "the smartest play in World Series history". Can't Stop The ...
Baseball Nerd: Olbermann: The Nine Smartest Plays In World Series History
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Baseball Nerd: Olbermann: The Nine Smartest Plays In World Series History Very magnanimous of Olbermann to give a play involving Knoblauch a mention considering their history… The second smartest play in Series history came in perhaps the greatest seventh game in modern Series history. The Braves and Twins were locked in their remorseless battle of 1991, scoreless into the eighth inning. Veteran Lonnie Smith led off the top of the frame with a single. Just like Enos Slaughter in 1946, he then got the signal to run with the pitch, and just like Harry Walker in 1946, his teammate ...
The Nine Smartest Plays in World Series History
The Scores Report - The National Sports Blog —
... I just caught this list on a recent episode of “Countdown with Keith Olbermann.” I can’t seem to find a video version of the list, so a heads up would be appreciated. But here is the written version on Olbermann’s own blog. ...
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mlbnotebook.com 21 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 ...
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Damon's instincts a treat for Yankees
sportingnews.com 21 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 ...
Damon's 'instinctual' double dash makes World Series history
sports.yahoo.com 19 days ago — PHILADELPHIA — Had Derek Jeter (notes) been the culprit of the double theft, it would have gone done in the history books as the all-time greatest display of "baseball smarts." But since it was a self-described Idiot doing the ...
One Play Changes Everything
puristbleedspinstripes.com 21 days ago — I know this has been said before, but one play in last night’s game was so important that it bears repeating: Johnny Damon’s steal of second and third base with two outs in the ninth inning.
First, let’s go over, really simply, how he did it.
Damon stealing second itself ...
Johnny Be Great
ladylovespinstripes.com 15 days ago — My first impression of Johnny Damon was not in Yankee uniform, but that of a hated Boston Red Sox.
He was that outfielder who was part of the biggest Yankee heartbreak in 2004. Damon played a...
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riveraveblues.com 21 days ago —
Because of the way FOX produces baseball games, when Johnny Damon slid safely into second, popped up and then started heading for third, my heart dropped. “What are you doing?” I thought. How could Damon, already in scoring position ...
So, just how good was Damon’s steal?
hardballtimes.com 21 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 :
# ...
Damon's Steal: instant history
bases.nbcsports.com 21 days ago — On the one hand, the double steal by Damon in the 9th doesn't really matter, right? He'd be on second base before the A-Rod hit and still would have scored, even if someone had thought to cover third.On the other...
Wrapping up a game that put the Yankees one away
yankees.lhblogs.com 21 days ago — In the clubhouse after tonight’s game, someone asked Derek Jeter how smart Johnny Damon is. “Well, he called himself an idiot,” Jeter said.
It must be a lot easier to make jokes when the team’s one win away from a title ...
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