Day: January 19, 2010

Fireside Chats #70: Where Jagerbombs don’t help Paul with the ladies as much as steroids helped Big Mac

Join us as we talk about such exiting topics as, arbitration and the hall of fame and pine for actual baseball games again. If for nothing else, listen to this weeks show to hear Paul pull off a front runner for analogy of the year with regard to the Mark McGwire interview. Also, which "current" Red Sox would you consider potentially "Hall-worthy" by their career's end? All that and more on this episode of Fireside Chats after the jump.

All-Aughts Team of the Decade CF: Johnny Damon

Twins v Red Sox
Johnny Damon came to Boston for the tail-end of the previous regime, getting a taste for how unpopular the club was among players at the time. Damon's autobiography, Idiot: Beating "The Curse" and Enjoying the Game of Life, related that an unnamed Red Sox player told him he made a mistake signing with the team. That was back in 2002, when Damon led the American League with 11 triples, erasing the memories of Carl Everett from our mind. The following year, the tide began to turn for both Damon and the Red Sox, as both became fan favorites. In the offseason, Damon grew lazy and allowed his hair and beard to grow out, coming across as a "Caveman" and being referred to as Jesus.