Comments on: Must-Click Link: The Epic Story of Johnny Damon’s Attempt to Throw a Ball to Home Plate

By: 1historian

1historian — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 22:44:41 +0000

I know that there are 117 days left in the year, but it is time to announce that the coveted “cheap shot from cyberspace’ for the year 2012 award goes to all the contributors to this blog which of course means that the lovely and talented Craig Calcaterra gets an extra noodle for inciting all the genius that followed.

By: mariner425

mariner425 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:11:50 +0000

I can’t remember if it was a game this year or last. Damon standing near the warning track makes the last out of the inning. He turns to throw the ball to fans in the outfield, and double pumps a non throw. It seemed he was worried he couldn’t throw the ball the forty feet or so. He ends up carrying the ball to the pitching mound or dugout.

By: illegalblues

illegalblues — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:53:11 +0000

jon bois is easily the internet’s best writer.

By: stex52

stex52 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:43:45 +0000

No, never thought of that. I was more or less giving a straight reading of the story. But you might have a point……….

By: townballblog

townballblog — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:43:10 +0000

You two should get a room

As for the story….epic-ish

By: stackers1

stackers1 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:43:07 +0000

I like what Red Sox fans said about Johnny after he signed as a free agent with the Yankees.

He looks like Jesus, throws like Mary & acts like Judas.

By: bigdicktater

bigdicktater — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:32:02 +0000

stex52, are you saying Johnny couldn’t reach up and take a ring off anyone except a dwarf?

By: psousa1

psousa1 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:26:46 +0000

The other side of it is the guy tracked down everything (until late in his career) and gave all he had whether 10 runs up or 10 down. Crashed into everything, dove for everything to make a play, tried to break up every double play. Sox would have never won in 2004 if it wasn’t for him to set the tone.

By: koreanfandeath

koreanfandeath — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:20:23 +0000

Damon was a gamer. He had to be in order to make up for his noodle arm. The season I watched him with the Tigers, he made a lot of smart base running plays to score runs. The link is awesome.

By: bsbiz

bsbiz — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:10:36 +0000

The owners have all of those. They are the ones who are always looking for ways to increase their hordes of gold and influence.

By: cur68

cur68 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:03:25 +0000

I only wish I had written all of that. Otherwise, I hope this is printed out by Damon himself and carried with him in his wallet. He can pull it out and read it every time he thinks of making a comeback.

By: stex52

stex52 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:38:49 +0000

“Isildur”. Sorry.

By: stex52

stex52 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:38:00 +0000

Pretty much what happened to Isuldur. But at the time, I think one of the Dwarves’ rings would have been more accessible.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:34:26 +0000

Johnny Damon has 79 career outfield assists. True story.

Though….I guess that mos (all?) are probably from doubling up runners at 2B that thought a liner would fall in for a single, but was caught by Damon close enough that he could 12 hop the ball into second.

By: number42is1

number42is1 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:33:43 +0000

I’m calling 100% bullshit! no way in HELL that Damon knows the word Fortnight.

By: bsbiz

bsbiz — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:29:18 +0000

Problem is that if it was the One Ring, it would have sensed its mistake and fallen off his finger, rendering him visible again in the middle of the River Anduin.

By: bigleagues

bigleagues — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:14:52 +0000

Your opinion vs my opinion . . . and I won’t even volley your name calling (even though I did find your comment funny because it’s echoes the way my little sister phrases things).

:-p

By: stex52

stex52 — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:11:05 +0000

You all have been misled. Anyone knowledgeable in such things can tell you the map was actually of Arnor, the sister-kingdom of Gondor, which was destroyed by the Witch-King of Angmar about two thousand years before the doings in “Lord of the RIngs.” Johnny should merely have wrested one of the Rings of Power from its rightful owner and used it to assist him in his throw to the infield.

Of course, then he would have become the tenth Ringwraith chasing Frodo, but every plan has its price.

By: The Common Man

The Common Man — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:02:58 +0000

I give him an A+++++++++ for creativity, so let’s just average that and give him an A+ since you’re dumb and don’t like joy and stuff.

By: bigleagues

bigleagues — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:55:53 +0000

I have to hand it too Craig . . . verrrry rarely are the ‘must click links’, not worth the click.

Dude gets an A+ for absurdity – which I always believe to be a very effective means of expressing an opinion – even if the first half of it is sort of dumb because, ya know . . .

a) Johnny Damon has been really fast for most of his career and . . .

b) if opposing teams wanted to routinely score ducks on the pond . . . then hitting the ball as deep as possible – as frequently as possible – on Johnny Damon would be the play you’d want to make.

But he gets a ‘C-” for creativity.

I get that he was writing all of this in a figurative sense . . . but the whole story would have been more absurd, and yet somehow more believable, if everything that he wrote had occurred from the point Damon picked up the ball and flicked it toward the infield.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:38:29 +0000

I wanna watch Ben Revere and Johnny Damon duel for the title of noodliest arm in the majors. Actually, you could probably put both Revere and Damon in left as a kind of throwing relay team and they still might have trouble getting the ball to the plate.