Johnny Damon

The problem with the post-season in most sports is that one league or conference is often much stronger than the other league or conference. When this happens, the playoffs become anticlimactic, with the actual championship series or game becoming a foregone conclusion once the stronger conference crowns its champion.

A good example of this came in 2004, when the Red Sox and Yankees slugged it out in seven memorable games in the A.L.C.S. They were clearly the two most talented teams in baseball and massive audiences tuned in for each game, knowing that it was the de facto World Series. Which it was.  read more »

On June 27, Joe Torre said that suffering through the Yankees’ losing streak felt like falling off a cliff. That day, The New York Times called the team’s summer slump “depths never experienced in Torre’s 12 years as manager.”

But Johnny Damon, fresh from visits to his Orlando chiropractor and dentist, was rejuvenated.  read more »

The Yankees saved their skins—and by some accounts, their manager Joe Torre—when they rallied past a two-run deficit and Roger Clemens’ injured hamstring to beat the Cleveland Indians last night at Yankee Stadium 8 to 4.  read more »

Booing Johnny Damon—what a bunch of classless ingrates.

As I remember, Johnny Damon was playing for the Oakland A's when the Red Sox took him, by giving him a ton more money, ripping off a small-market club. He came to Boston and put in three great years. He didn't complain, didn't hotdog, just played hard, and broke the curse. When Damon came to the plate last night, he was all class. Tipping his cap to the Red Sox and to Wakefield. And Fenway booed. The Boston fans are almost as bad as the Yankee fans, booing Rivera last year...

Gossip columnists have been dogging newly minted bachelor Russell Simmons ever since the hip-hop mog  read more »

Gossip columnists have been dogging newly minted bachelor Russell Simmons ever since the hip-hop mog  read more »

Johnny Damon has completed his purchase of a condo at One Beacon Court for $400,000 under asking, as reported today in The Observer.

However, Mr. Damon still owned two residences from his playing days in Boston.

His Brookline home--which he most recently lived in--briefly went on the market last month.

Now, he has finally sold his Ritz-Carlton apartment for $2.5 million, according to today's Boston Herald.

The new owner, developer Roy MacDowell III, discussed living nearby Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez, whose penthouse is still on the market.

"I have run into him a few times. I imagine we will bump into each other more often," MacDowell said.

That's if Mr. Ramirez doesn't find a buyer.  read more »

- Michael Calderone

Before Johnny Damon heads down to Tampa in two weeks for spring training, the formerly scraggly cent  read more »

Before Johnny Damon heads down to Tampa in two weeks for spring training, the formerly scraggly cent  read more »

• Edie Falco has just signed a lease on a four-bedroom home near Sag Harbor. Also, there is further evidence that Adelaide de Menil may be unloading her 40-acre estate, for $100 million. (New York Post)
• Democratic fund-raisers Carl Spielvogel and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel have found a buyer for their $20 million apartment at 720 Park. In December, The Observer reported that the power couple were moving 10 floors below, and had put this apartment on the market. Also, Johnny Damon has been spotted at The Empire, the same luxury condominium that Jason Giambi calls home. Perhaps, Mr. Damon used our handy roundup for his apartment search. (New York)
• Lastly, a two-bedroom apartment is now on the market for a whopping $27.5 million! Well, it is at 740 Park (which calls for an obligatory comment from the building's biographer, Michael Gross). (New York Times)

-Michael Calderone

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a baseball player in possession of an eight-digit contr  read more »