Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Our friends over at Sully's Tees have wasted no time.
Damon is no longer their homeboy.



(Now on MySpace!)

Etc.
Stopped into the hastily assembled Lucchino/Hoyer/Cherington pressy they held at Fenway this afternoon, but ducked out early because they weren't saying anything all that new. In fact, I'm not quite sure why they held it at all. Aren't press conferences supposed to be had when there is news to announce? This was news we knew already. (And, in fact, it's news the Sox brain trust heard about last night from the media.)

They could have just issued a tersely worded press release claiming that Damon was a valuable and beloved Red Sox but, in the end, the price in dollars and years was just too steep for the team, and that they wish him luck -- but not too much, ha ha! -- in the Bronx. And then they could have gotten to work finding his replacement.

Instead, Lucky and the co-GMs sat at a table, looking haggard and downcast, and took questions. Admirable, and maybe even understandable considering the lumps Lucchino took for staying hidden after Theo split. But it seems to me that the press availability was a tacit admission of defeat, and that by having it they made losing Johnny Damon look like a bigger deal than it was. They looked like they got beat, and it didn't look good.


Sox Blog is moving, loyal readers. As of the Monday after Christmas, you'll find it at http://www.thephoenix.com/soxblog. You'll have to update your bookmarks, and if you subscribe via RSS, you should point your reader to http://www.thephoenix.com/soxblog.

I'll be on vacation next week, but will be updating if anything big goes down. Which with this team is almost a certainty. In the mean time, Happy Holidays.

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