Johnny Damon back among the undecided
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Jan 30, 2008 
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Despite an endorsement from Johnny Damon last week, Rudy Giuliani was drubbed in the Florida primary and dropped out of the presidential race today.
The good news is that Rudy can now go to spring training games and sit in those $200 seats next to the dugout. Maybe he can record another one of those, “Let’s Go Yankees!” videos for the scoreboard.
Maybe Rudy’s finally learned that you can’t run a whole campaign on the events of 9/11.
or claim to root for the sox just to get votes
maybe Rudy learned that if you’re a Yankee Fan, you cannot root for the Red Sox in the World Series. Yes Rudy, the whole “I’m an American League Fan” doesn’t fly in the Bronx…and apparently not in Florida either.
Rudy consistently got between 9 and 11 percent of the votes…
(beat me to it, jay)
Sox fans weren’t exactly fond of him jumping on the bandwagon either. Its gettin’ tight on there…
I hope the first game he’s at he gets the Bronx cheer. Turncoat.
Let’s go Yankees, let’s go Sox, whoever’s in 1st place, right Rudy?
I know Pete is entitled to write what he wants but I really wished he would keep politics out of this forum.
Debating the Yanks and the Santana deal for three months was divisive enough.
I don’t understand the problem with making extra posts. It keeps stuff coming, plus he actually related this one to the Yankees.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some people found out about Rudy here first…
Extra posts are fine and dandy, but topics like religion and politics have no place on a baseball blog.
Yah.. Talking about politics never ends well..
What we sohuld be talking about, is how the New Kids on the Block are getting back together.
Now THATS news. =P
I think in order to get his $200 seats back, in 55,000 games (one game for every other seat in the stadium). On game day he must stand in front of Gate 2 and let every yankee fan kick him in the “rear end” while entering the stadium until his 55,000 game suspension is over.
His comment about the Red Sox made me hate his guts more so then I did before… I really dont want him to ever be able to sit in those seats again.
Giuseppe Franco: It’s Pete’s blog and he can write whatever he wants, just like you have the right to not read it.
PS Good riddance to Rudy!
Real World
Let’s not be too optimistic here!!! LOL! The Yankees are fair with their players. It is known that they will take care of their FA and their own players. Why George even wrote checks to former Yankees who needed or their family needed help. This isn’t a money issue! Santana never was a money issue. The Yanks are built finally for the long run and the short run. You don’t jepordize this unless you have to and in the Santana to Boston scenario it would have been a have too. All risks aren’t even. Santana isn’t the only option. The Yanks farm system is very deep in Pitching because of Cashman. If he didn’t do such a great job with the farm we never would have been in the mix to start with. I know it is popular to say it is Hughes, Joba & Kennedy we are leaning on for next year, but that isn’t true. We have at least 4 other potential SP’s in AA/AAA that are major league ready as well. Plus there are SPs available via trade, with even more possibly available in late June/July time frame.
So lets not panic! The season is yet to start even! This is why baseball has 162 game regular season schedule and no playoff rosters need to be set until midnight before Sept 1st.
I like what I see in the Yankees for 2008 & beyond.
At least Americans know there are few crimes worse than electing a turncoat president!
I have no problem rooting for a rival if your team gets eliminated. Once it doesn’t matter to your team, a rival’s success only makes it sweeter when your team beats them the next time. Just my humble opinion.
Yazman: wrong. It’s never acceptable to root for the red socks.
(Wait a minute; YAZMAN?! A ha!)
So you were rooting for the 04′ Sox?
Psh that trader! His rooting for the Sox in the postseason ended any chance of me giving him a vote. Glad he is out of the race, I never really trusted Giuliani.
Joke all you want about Rudy’s “I’m an American League Fan” idiocy, there should be a statue of him (bad comb-over and all) built outside the new stadium, because without the sea change he brought to this city there is no way it would have been built in the Bronx.
I was taught as a kid that you have to root for whoever beat you no matter who it is. If you believe you are the best team and someone beat you, they must be the only team who could have done it so you have to root for them to beat everyone else.
Pat; how was the food there on the Bizarro World?
That’s generally the rule, that you cheer for the team that beat you. BUT, if that team is your most vile hated rival, then you don’t. ABB. Anybody but Boston.
Rudy doesn’t need to prove his bona fides as a Yankee fan. Those of you disparaging him for his AL fan comments are Dems who dislike him no matter what.
So, go over to the Daily Kos or MyDD where the other Liberal cranks all hang out and have a ball.
Thanks, genius. I had already acknowledged that.
Someone’s a little cranky yankee today….
I should run for President. Please don’t read my Sommer Frieze. It is a bore like me.
Maybe a “Let’s Go American League!” video would be more appropriate for him.
Switching gears, does anyone think that Andy is going to rat out Clemens like that lawyer claims? If Andy is as religious as he claims to be, he won’t lie on the Bible. Should be interesting.
I’m a true-blue Yankees fan, though I admit:
a) my last name begins with Y-a-s
b) I lived in Massachusetts twice (Williamstown and Sturbridge) for a total of 15 years.
When I moved to Sturbridge, MA in 2001, a colleague asked me if I was going to raise my then 3-year old boys as Yankees fans. When I replied in the affirmative (that I’d try at least), he suggested I may as well re-name them S#!t-Head One and S#!t-Head Two — the reaction they’d get at school would be the same. But they survived.
I always felt that Boston fans focused on the Yanks much more than the other way around. Kind of an inferiority complex on their part.
As for me, I wish the Sox well. As long as we beat them when it counts
Rudy to me, would be an excelent Vice Presidential Candidate. He never went negative in his campaign so he hasn’t pissed off McCain or Romney. However, he will still be at all the home Yankee playoff and world series games.
The opponent will NOT be Johan, Half-dro & the Others.
Well said, Yazman.
The more people saw of Rudy the less they liked him. His continual invocation of 9/11 became comical.
The chance of Rudy being the VP is less than zero.
“The chance of Rudy being the VP is less than zero.”
Well yeah, because the Republicans can’t win this year unless they cheat. However, Whoa, do you think Rudy will be McCain’s VP choice? I do and I’ll bet 2 Yankee seats I’m right.
so did Johnny endorse anyone else yet?!!??
i need to know. i think the NY state primaries are coming soon.
I was a Yankee fan day in and day out up until I had to get political in late October and root for Boston for the sake of my Presidential ambitions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni7Gxaopn5Y
The other possibility is the governor of FLA.
Yanksrule is a tool.
How about Dick Cheney, or Curt Schilling as McCain’s VP? Both fine individuals.
Rudy, when are you coming home?
I think Huckabee will be the running mate to McCain. No idea who Romney will pick.