In a stunning blow to Red Sox Nation, the evil empire scooped up Johnny D. last night. Say it ain’t so, somebody? The Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy sums it up this way:

So now your Boston Red Sox have no center fielder, no shortstop, and no first baseman to go along with no Theo Epstein and no clue. It’s fair to say this is becoming a winter of discontent in Red Sox Nation.

Ah, there is trouble in Beantown, and no savoir in sight. How could the front office have let Johnny Damon go? I can only hope the Braves pickup of BoSox refugee Edgar Renteria gives my other fave team some help in 2006 with Furcal heading to the Dodgers.

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