Johnny Damon to the Tigers

[MaineDem]

Johnny Damon has a one-year, $8 million contract with the Detroit Tigers. The deal for the free agent who was not re-signed by the New York Yankees was reported by Yahoo.com's Tim Brown, then Tyler Kepner of the New York Times wrote that Damon confirmed the deal in a text message. Here are more details from John Lowe of the Detroit Free Press:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2010/02/damon-in-detroit-for-a-year-delgado-out-four-months/1

[DaveinMD]

1. good luck Johnny

I enjoyed your time with the Yankees.

How silly is Detroit. They traded Granderson to the Yankees to cut 5 million in payroll this year and now they pay Damon 8.

[joeybee12]

2. Does seem alot since they were the only team left bidding...n/t

[Renew Deal]

3. Good for him and good for the Tigers

:D

[Captain Hilts]

4. LisaM? What you think?

[LisaM]

6. I'm quite pleased, actually

He's a good fit for the Tigers, and we needed a left-handed bat big time. I think he'll put up decent numbers (and maybe now he can grow his hair back out!)

I know not everyone's thrilled about it, but I have high hopes for this signing.

[joeybee12]

7. He's a Republican! An ignorant one, too.

Oops...sorry...redundancy.

[madinmaryland]

8. He and Schilling. Seems like a Red sox thing!

:D

[joeybee12]

9. Hey, he last palyed for the stinkee, skankee, spankme, yankme, wankme

yankees.

[madinmaryland]

10. This coming from a roid sox fan or is that dead sox, bo-sux red sux, et. al.??

:shrug:

[joeybee12]

11. How about those Cowpies!

How about those Pirates!@!@!!

[madinmaryland]

12. How did the Patsi's win a playoff game this season??

And dude, it is...

(@)(@)

not what you did!!

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[joeybee12]

13. 34-3!

If you lose your last game, it doesn't matter how far you get. Ask Payless.

[Kingofalldems]

5. I guess his wife is happy now