As always, it’s good to be Johnny Damon
Posted by: Peter Abraham - Posted in Misc on Feb 12, 2008 
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It’s not enough that he banks $13 million to play baseball. Now we learn that Mrs. Johnny Damon will be in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Michelle Damon was at the BBWAA dinner with Johnny a few weeks ago and all we can say is, good job SI.
Meanwhile, Johnny also hangs out with cool chicks like Kay Hanley, who once fronted the band Letters To Cleo
Kay sang backup on the wildly successful Hannah Montana tour this winter and blogged about the experience. One of her recent entries was about seeing Michelle Damon at the show in Orlando then going back to the Damon home.
She took some photos of Johnny’s game room and wrote about playing him in Dance Dance Revolution. That’s a video game for you old timers.
Yeah, Johnny can’t throw a lick. I suspect he doesn’t much care.
UPDATE, 4:45 p.m.: Hey, SI.com has a gallery of Michelle Damon photos
Yeah, this will help in meeting deadline.
Hey Pete – Can you bring back the blog pinch hitter idea from last month? That guy Chris was simply off the charts in the earlier thread today. I was impressed. Now I’m looking forward to him entertaining if not educating all of us with a magnificently astute full-blown post of his own. It would be splendifirous if you could provide him the forum.
I thought I could get him to bite on the John Rocker idea but apparently he’s far more intelligent than I gave him credit for.
Hey Chris – What grade are you in?
Pete, about how Kennedy might not work out in spring training thus being a problem as a starter. It doesn’t worry me seeing how he played in the minors, I got to say his stuff might not be lightning but he strikes guys out alot. I personally like his pitches better than Phil’s but that’s my opinion. Did you get a picture of Phil, Joba, Kennedy or Brackman. If you did please post it.
Chris is one of the WFAN fans who call up and say evry year that the if the Yanks don’t win this year, then they are a bust.
They always provide great trade ideas like, lets trade Igawa and Karstens for Texiera.
Chris hasn’t posted for a while. Did he print off a copy of that picture of Damon’s wife and go somewhere private to … uh … comb his hair?
No HGH jokes?
http://www.debbieclemens.com/events.htm
Sorry … couldn’t resist.
Sorry .. couldn’t resist.
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Spoiler alert: I’m not posting the exact link because I don’t want anybody’s young boys seeing these pictures without parental supervision – - but Mrs. Damon’s pictures are up on the sportsillustrated.cnn website.
It might seem Johnny has it good, but can his wife cook, balance the checkbook and be all around smarter than her spouse? If not, I’ve got it better:)
Pete
Thanks for your responsible reporting.
The NY Post breaks the news that Joba is definitely in the Pen and Cashman says that’s not a sure thing. Newsday quotes Davis saying that Pettitte confirms McNamee’s story in his deposition and the Senator says he was misquoted. In an effort to be first, too many reporters or editors are being careless in delivering facts.
Maybe it’s just me but I prefer my news to be right rather than to be first.
Here’s an amusing Michelle Damon story.
I had the dubious fortune of attending Game 4 in October.
Well, as I started to file out of the Stadium, I began to feel the onset of the depression, a kind of grieving sorrow, that grips me every year for at least the first two to three days after the Yankees are eliminated.
I’m listening on my headphones to Torre dissolve in his press conference and Susan weep on the air and I know there’s no way I’m going to be able to sleep that night. So I figure I’ll drink myself into a stupor at Stan’s or the bowling alley.
Only I happened to exit through the rear where the media trucks park and I see all these fans milling about behind the stanchions, waiting for the player to leave for the parking lot.
Now, I’m not a groupie. For that matter, with the exception of David Cone, I haven’t even liked the few major league ball players I’ve met. But I start to talk to the fans waiting for autographs and we begin to commiserate and re-hash the season, I end up hanging out there for a good hour to ninety minutes.
Eventually, a trickle of players file out, Edward Ramirez, Andy Pettitte, Abreu, but they don’t want any part of autographs on the night their season ends. Anyway, the clubhouse exit is close enough to the parking lot to enable to scurry into it without coming anywhere near us.
With the wives, however, it’s a different story. To get to the parking lot, they have to pass us. Well at some point, three of them walk by, all dressed in mini-skirts– it was warm that day remember– and cowboy boots.
Now, I wouldn’t know one player wife from the next and wouldn’t care either. But all of a sudden a couple of clowns behind me starting chanting the name of that stripper A-Rod got caught with up in Toronto.
The guys there start laughing hysterically. The female groupies even snicker.
And suddenly, one of the wives turns around a gives all of us the finger.
I needn’t tell you her name… Michelle Damon.
Of course, the irony of the story was that the one Yankee player to acknowledge us happened to be her husband, who waved and smiled before getting into his car.
kill-schill,
I guess that’s one example of why the players and families will have underground parking at the new Stadium. The days of hanging around after the game to watch the players or get autographs will be over.
In a way it’s sad to lose that opportunity. I know I did it a lot as a kid and I do it with my niece & nephews now. But for security reasons you can’t blame them. Just another sign of the times.
kill.schill(ing):
The rich are different from you and I.
When the Yankees left spring training in 2007 the starting rotation consisted of Wang, Pettitte, Mussina, Pavano, and Igawa. The final roster cuts saw Wil Nieves and Josh Phelps making the team. Wang went down early. Pettitte was a victim of no run support. Mussina had early injuries. Pavano went down never to return. Igawa was shaky with most outings. Clippard, DeSalvo, and Wright couldn’t stop the bleeding. The Yankees saw themselves with a 21-29 start on May 30.
Michelle Damon can’t hold a candle to Laura Posada.
how come no pictures of Damon in a speedo on there?
Yeah murphydog, you know the answer to that one: “You’re right, they have more money.”
Pity about the new Stadium. I would never hold it against her but that episode with Michelle Damon is one I won’t soon forget.
It actually impressed me that she was acquainted with A-Rod’s favorite stripper’s name. I certainly wasn’t.
Implants. I’m not impressed.
i think i have to disagree Eric….
I love the Yankee Wives skit from SNL. Anyone have a link? They took all the SNL stuff off youtube.
(Michelle must be really nice, but I have to say she looks much better with her sunglasses on. I know that the fellas here aren’t looking at her face, but jmo.)
Pat,
Very well said.
That’s the part about all this steroid stuff, in particular the Clemens stuff, that I still have a hard time understanding.
The ability of the national media, namely ESPN, to be consistently wrong every step of the way.
Even today, ESPN (namely TJ Quinn) and Newsday are, at least according to members of the committee, wrong in characterizing Pettitte’s testimony.
In all the zeal to be “first”, they aren’t only not “right”, they aren’t EVER right.
We also saw this behavior during the Winter Meetings with their coverage of trade talks.
How many times did they trot Buster Olney out there to report a Santana to the Red Sox deal was “imminent”?
At some point, you would think the Managing Editor at ESPN would pull back and think like a journalist again.
All he is doing is destroying the credibility of guys like Olney because, if you are wrong just about all the time (which he was all winter) folks will just turn the channel when you talk baseball.
ESPN has no real competition. There is no reason to rush out of the gate with single source and even no source reporting just to be “first”.
Especially, when they are consistently wrong.
At some point, you lose credibility with the people who don’t fawn over every word by your people at the network. Namely, people over the age of 30, who understand how this business works.
If Andy Pettitte had something VERY incriminating against Roger Clemens, guess what? He would not have been excused from testifying by this Committee.
This Committee wants a show. What better show than to have one friend turn on another?
When I first heard the Committee excused Pettitte from testifying, my first thought was, he didn’t say anything damaging against Clemens.
When I say “damaging”, I mean something that would end up being the lynchpin toward a perjury charge against the Rocket.
It really would be nice if folks in the media exercised a little restraint and get their facts straight.
Rumors ARENT facts. Unfortunately at ESPN, there doesn’t seem to be anybody in their operation who understands that simple truth.
My Michelle Damon story.
Played in a charity golf tournament a few years ago.
JD was on the range, teaching his wife the game. Very touching.
He was teeing the ball up for her and she would then hit a few shots.
Then JD would go off and talk to other people on the range.
That left Michelle to have to tee up the balls on her own.
Since she was wearing about the lowest cut golf top I have ever seen a woman wear, needless to say, she was the entertainment on that hot, sunny Florida afternoon.
It was one of those moments where you saw a lot of guys who would rather stay at the range than play the course!
fantastic story SJ!!!
SJ44,
That’s a great story.
But I’m going to ask the guys here, is that what you want in a wife? Do you want every man in a 20-foot radius looking at your wife with their tongues hanging out?
Mel,
Uh, yes. As long as she goes home with me AND signs the Pre-Nup!
Go figure, I guess players using enhancers is more frowned upon on this site than the wives of players getting enhancers.
Yeah, so, the swimsuit issue doesn’t do a whole lot for me. Probably don’t need to specify why.
Anyway, if you haven’t seen, I had a little fun with the clemens/mcnamee thing over on my blog. You should totally check it out. (/shameless self promotion)
“Of course, the irony of the story was that the one Yankee player to acknowledge us happened to be her husband, who waved and smiled before getting into his car.”
Is that really the proper use of the word ‘irony’?
So is Chris actually George King?
From Rep. Davis:
“His entire deposition eventually will speak for him. He does have an affidavit that probably will be in the record [Wednesday.”
Davis said that Pettitte wasn’t needed at Wednesday’s hearing.
“No ballplayer in their right mind wants to come up before a congressional committee. It wasn’t like he could add anything,” Davis said.
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Andrew Marchand (sp?) was on the radio yesterday saying that they’re letting all these guys bow out, because although they knew it would grab attention, they didn’t know that it would blow up into the huge circus that it has. Something about putting the clowns and elephants back under the tent. Maybe they bit off more than they could chew.
re: Laura Posada. Once again, looks like a lovely person, however she’s built like an American Gladiator.
I read that Pettitte was contradicting himself in his deposition. Doing that live would have only made the hearing more unbearable than it already is going to be.
And damon does it while playing a crappy centerfield.
Man, good to be damon, sucks to be the yankees.
Pete: What we all want to know about Damon is whether he showed up in shape. Any news on that front?
Mac,
Exactly what is it that Damon does while playing “a crappy centerfield?”
Wow Pete
How boring ….with everything going on….. this blog was completely lame and stinks of, well its your blog.
But I’m going to ask the guys here, is that what you want in a wife?
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Of course! Take my right arm, Please!
And… well… I wouldn’t really HAVE to take her out, would I?
Mel… time to return to the mainland. You are getting out of touch.
(did I tell you my daughter was conceived in Hana?)
“But I’m going to ask the guys here, is that what you want in a wife? Do you want every man in a 20-foot radius looking at your wife with their tongues hanging out?”
Can’t lie about it; attractiveness is one of the things xP
Now the every man in a 20-foot radius drooling thing would just be them agreeing with me
Is it me, or is she not really even that attractive? She reaches a point of fakeness in her appearance in which she looks extremely tacky.
To Yanks: It’s you………..
yup… just you
Nah, it’s not just him. I don’t think she looks very good at all in the SI photos.
well i was going by what came up on google image searches… i’m not about to go perv out to si.com pictures… at least not while at work…