Happy Birthday Red Sox Nation Daily...........
It all started with the blog below 4 years ago......
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.



It was five years and 2 billion dollars in Yankee payroll .....on this night....that Curt ( Wyatt Earp) Schilling quieted the old Yankee Stadium patrons....and shut down the Yankee bats...basically on one leg. Schillings performance propeled the Red Sox to a game seven showdown with the Yanks they would win...on thier way to thier first World Series title in 86 years........


Despite what you have read in the globe....Big Papi...is indeed...not back....in his last 35 plate appearances...he has seven hits...for a ******** .200 average...you are what your average says you are....so Papi is a .227 hitter....


