: I almost posted to your page, thinking the same thing (we need a good baseball thread)!!  Anything just to help me not reach for the popcorn and say something about Elonka's post to that thread ... which amounts to, lob unsubstantiated allegations and innuendo (like someone else used to do), oh, and if you want to know more detial, e-mail me and I'll spread my version of the truth backchannel ... which translates to ... gossip ... the worst post on that thread, and the kind of behavior I most abhor.  Those who don't learn from history and all that.  FT2 will eventually do himself in between the lack of contact with the community, the lack of article contributions, and the tendency towards arrogance; no need to add more fuel to that fire. 
 : Me, spit on Johnny Damon ?!?!?  Not a chance.  Love him; it's all about "know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em" and we had him when the time was right.  Without his hair, he does look like he's not fully evolved, though. And lucky for him, the Yankees seem to be teaching him how to talk (Red Sox went for the caveman effect -).  I wouldn't cross the street to meet A-Rod ... heck, I wouldn't speak to him if I were seated next to him on an airplane ... but Posada and Jeter are good guys (they just play for the wrong team, which has bad fans).  Posada has always been a gentleman, and Jeter convinced me that he was more than a pretty boy when e dove in to the stands a few years ago. And Joe Torre, can't complain about him at all.  Just don't get me started on Clemens and his bat throwing.