If you turn them down for that, you deserve one year for $3 million or whatever he is going to get. In February, teams have got guys in place. My feeling is that now he is going to be lucky to get whatever he gets.

Reds should make him an offer.

I'd love to see it, but I just don't see it unless they can dump Cordero on someone, and I don't think they want to trade him yet

You are probably right, but given where the team is and its personnel/management team, I would prefer Damon to the Dickerson/Balentien or Gomes platoon that I expect we will see. The team is short on both pop and OBP,

If he's in the $3-4M 1-year range, every team can afford him.

There are plenty of teams where he'd improve LF or DH.

For $3 million? ####, the Red Sox should offer him that and just do whatever with him. Between Cameron, Drew and Ortiz, there'd be some at-bats for him.

Is Juan Francisco ready for the ML and could he play LF until Rolen disintegrates into a pile of detached limbs

One month into the 2005-06 season and without a contract, Sprewell's agent, Bob Gist, said his client would rather retire than play for the NBA minimum salary, telling Sports Illustrated, "Latrell doesn't need the money that badly. To go from being offered $7 million to taking $1 million, that would be a slap in the face." Several days later, Gist said that Sprewell planned to wait until "teams get desperate" around the trade deadline in February, and then sign with a contending team (an eventuality that never materialized). Gist said that Sprewell would not be interested in signing for any team's $5 million mid-level exception, calling that amount "a level beneath which [Sprewell] would not stoop or kneel!"

One month into the 2005-06 season and without a contract, Sprewell's agent, Bob Gist, said his client would rather retire than play for the NBA minimum salary, telling Sports Illustrated, "Latrell doesn't need the money that badly. To go from being offered $7 million to taking $1 million, that would be a slap in the face." Several days later, Gist said that Sprewell planned to wait until "teams get desperate" around the trade deadline in February, and then sign with a contending team (an eventuality that never materialized). Gist said that Sprewell would not be interested in signing for any team's $5 million mid-level exception, calling that amount "a level beneath which [Sprewell] would not stoop or kneel!"

Your beard is thick and grown;
You're aching in the bone;
You're shriveling in your zone;
Hey man, Day-man, you gonna live up to your Chone?

Your back is all a groan;
Your seed has long been sewn;
Your kidney's full of stone;
Hey man, Day-man, you gonna live up to your Chone?

Boras won't answer your phone;
He's working for your clone;
He thinks you are a prone;
Hey man, Day-man, you gonna live up to your Chone?

The money you have blown;
Setting all the wrong tone;
Has many fans a moan;
Hey man, Day-man, you gonna live up to your Chone?

There is no way Bengie Molina is going to earn more money playing Major League Baseball than Johnny Damon will in 2010.

If Damon and the Yanks had an ounce of common sense and could put their egos to rest for a minute, they'd sit down at the table and go back to that 2 / 14 contract. It'd be the best for everyone concerned, with the exception of their opponents.

I thought he had kids to feed?

As an aside, I always thought that Spreewell got a bad rap for that remark. He had to have been kidding.

Report: Damon will ‘be lucky’ to sign somewhere

There was a player who's name eludes me now, decent player, not a star, but a regular for few years, around 33-35 years old, he was looking for a deal of around X dollars - his best offer was 1/2 X

he loudly and publicly retired, the best offer was "insulting", he didn't care what teams thought he was worth, we wasn't going to play for less than what HE thought he was worth.

Didn't Ewing say that? If so, that's an incredibly bum rap for Spreewell.

A rap on the hand with a ruler or on the pants with a rod was a common punishment in schools and at home back in the 18th century when the word rap took on the meanings of “rebuke, reprimand”. That sense of the word stuck and by the turn of the 20th century, rap had taken on the sense of a criminal charge or punishment. Taking the rap for burglary meant doing the time. By the 1940s criminal records were called rap sheets. This is how “a bad rap” or “bum rap” came to mean unfair criticism or punishment.

**what Damon is "worth" to a team without the Yankees' financial resources (or park configuration) is not necessarily what he is worth to the Yankees. And 2 / 14 for someone with Damon's age, general good health, and recent track record is not exactly that big of a risk.

Why is it than when Latrell Sprewell says it, everybody chalks it up to what a cockwad he is, but when Jimmy Kimmel says it, everybody's all, "Yeah! Suck on that, Jay Leno!"?

It's rap, not wrap. The origin of the term "bad rap" is a bit interesting. It comes from the sense of rap meaning "punishment."

Torrealba signed with the Pads today, somewhere around $1.5, with a mutual option for next year at $3.5.

collusion?

I mean, $11M???
Seriously...?