An Open Letter to Johnny Damon

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Originally Posted by EEich

I did do my research... the Red Sox never got the option to match because they alienated Damon so much with the low-ball offers and talk about trading for Jeremy Reed... .

Boras and Lucchino have a tumultuous relationship and Boras was idiotically seeking a 7 year deal for a guy is 32.
The Sox make an initial offer of 40 over 4 and never hear back from them? That's called being disloyal. The deserved to at least know what the heck was going on. The only reason this happened is that Boras and Lucchino don't get along and Damon just did whatever his agent said without regard for loyalty. I doubt the Sox would have matched but the disloyalty cries would far more muted had he given them oppotunity.