3 Years and Running….
Three years ago…I took pen to paper..paper to computer..and Red Sox Nation Daily was born…Here is that first blog ever written…Let’s hope that history does not repeat itself this week with the Yanks and a certain first baseman…
Farewell Johnny D.
Where have you gone Johnny Damon ? Red Sox’s fans turn their lonely eyes to you. It seems though the place we will have to turn them to is espn news or Fox sports, where we will find Johnny Damon being introduced as the newest trophy in the Yankees trophy collection of on the field future Hall of Famers. How could it have come to this so quickly, it seemed like yesterday that Johnny D. was pledging his loyalty to the team and city of Boston. Now it seems that you have proclaimed that the Yankees are your new team, and that “we” will be hard to beat, and you are just trying to help “them” win a world championship. As ususal in these kind of dramatic soap opera’s there is the basic posturing by both sides that they did everything possible to prevent this from happening, and how the Sox really wanted to keep Johnny and how Johnny really wanted to stay. However it seems that it will be the loyal fans of the Olde Town Team that will have yet another red letter, December 23, 2005.
There have been some epic battles fought between the Sox’s and the Yanks in their storied history, on and off the field. For the sheer theatrics of it I can not think of any worse and more morale reckoning site than that of Johnny Damon doning the 18# in its new style and color, pinstripes, doing so freshly shaven sans the beard and the long hair. The site of this will forever replace some other painful memories, say a long fly ball hit by Aaron “bleeping” Boone, sending the Soxs into that chilly October night, or a little roller that gets thru Buckner’s leg on some other October night. What more can any Sox’s fan ask for 2 days before Christmas.
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