Johnny Damon signs with Yankee’s ...

For those of you not familar with Johhny Damon he has been a baseball player for The boston Red Sox the past 5years. In 2004 he along with his teamates won the World Series. and broke an alleged 80 something year old curse of winning a world series for The Red Sox.

Johnny was nicknamed Jesus by teammates in the locker room when he arrived in 2004 sporting a beard to acompany his growing long hair he sported the season before.

A fan favorite with the crowd T shirts were made during the magical 2004 season saying What Would Johnny Do"

Johnny also appeared in the movie "Fever Pitch" with Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon and on the cover with them for Entertainment weekly.

He was also a part of an episode of Queer Eye for The Straight Guy where the boys gave him a minor makeover by adding highlights to his shoulder length hair.

After being eliminated early in the 2005 playoffs and managment change, Johnny Damon pondered signing with another team.

Many teams in the off season had expressed much interest.

Johnny however renounced that he would ever sign with the New York Yankee's, the arch enemy of the Red Sox.

However yesterday after being offered a 52 million contract, Damon decided his laid back hippy days of winning world championships are over in Boston and signed with George Steinbrenner's Yankee's

And now onto the hair part of the story.

As many who follow baseball know George stenibrenner's old fashioned outlooks and samantics prohibit any player on the team to have any facial hair and especially long hair.

In 1991 All star Don Mattingly, who was sporting hair that was slightly below collar lenght was made to cut his hair, admist bizzare media coverage.

So it should come to no surprise then that within the next few days, I would venture before this weekend ,for the press conference we will see a Clean shaven short haired Johnny Damon don the Pin Stripes of the Yankee's

And if anything can be take from this story it is, everyone has a price. and if offered 52 million any "quasi hippie" wont think twice to cut his hair and change his indenity

 

 

Actually, Damon said straight out yesterday that he will shave his beard
and cut his hair to conform to the Yankees' appearance standards.

As a lifelong Sox fan, I'm sorry to lose Damon, who's a great leadoff
hitter, hard-playing center fielder, and all-around fun guy to root for.
But apparently with him, as with so many modern athletes, it's about
the money and nothing else. Yesterday's archenemy is today's
employer.

By the way, few fans in Boston believed in the 'curse' notion; that was
more a media invention.