Thursday, March 16, 2006
Aww, Johnny...
From the NY Daily News via Joy of Sox:
Damon said he was "not really sure" when his shoulder started bothering him this spring, but the timing could sprout into an issue since the Yankees were reluctant to send their stars - Damon, Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez - to play.
Team USA manager Buck Martinez said yesterday that "Damon's been conservative with his throwing the whole time here. He hasn't thrown much. We haven't done anything here that's affected Johnny Damon."
But Damon apparently told his friend Jason Giambi that Team USA was "trying to speed them along" in drills to get into game form, Giambi said yesterday.
"I think I just need to, when I start throwing, save my bullets right now," Damon said. "I was stretching my arm out, trying to build it up real quick for this tournament. I just need to back off. It's something that comes and goes, but if the season were to start today, I'd definitely be able to go."
King Georgie's up in arms, of course, and blaming the "injury" on Bud Selig, when we all know it's Rogers Centre that's to blame, if anything. The Yankees chose to ignore what we in the Nation knew in our gut to be a career-nagging injury. Not that Johnny's a bad ballplayer with a bum shoulder - not by any means. In fact if his value at full strength is $13 million/year, I'd say his value with a constantly sore shoulder is still around $10 million. Boy, those numbers sound familiar... Where have I heard them before?
I'm not sure if that was intentionally funny, but I'm laughing out loud.
Poor Johnny and his boo-boo. I hope his friggin' arm falls off.
: 10:25 AM : 4:05 PM JTT- aha, the ol' secret agent theory! I'm just thankful we've had so many positive reasons to consider this theory lately.
michael- indeed, I'm sure he does. he's a good teammate like that. He better not ask Shef, though. Everyone knows that Gary is not sharey.
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