Idiot book – Liza Ketchum https://www.lizaketchum.org/blog Tue, 14 Apr 2015 03:21:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 76312305 Johnny Damon christened the 2004 Red Sox https://www.lizaketchum.org/blog/johnny-damon-christened-the-2004-red-sox/ https://www.lizaketchum.org/blog/johnny-damon-christened-the-2004-red-sox/#respond Tue, 14 Apr 2015 11:56:40 +0000 https://www.lizaketchum.org/blog/?p=373 A clean-shaven Johnny Damon stared down an umpire in a 2005 spring training game. By Googie man on en.wikipedia (From en.wikipedia; description page is (was) here) [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons

A clean-shaven Johnny Damon stared down an umpire in a 2005 spring training game. By Googie man on en.wikipedia (From en.wikipedia; description page is (was) here) [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons

Out of Left Field notes how quickly the sports world labeled the 2004 Red Sox “a bunch of idiots.”

More forget that Boston stalwart Johnny Damon created the title as a badge of honor for his team.

See how Damon explained the term in his 2005 Idiot book:

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