i'm so mad!
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curse back atcha!
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hahachuyler1 said:
"Fan settles Damon bib dispute with Boras"
Fan settles Damon bib dispute with Boras
The Associated Press
BOSTON A Red Sox fan angry that Johnny Damon defected to the New York Yankees has fought off an attempt by his high-powered agent to stop her from selling baby bibs with a very grown-up insult.
Tucked among the "I Love My Mommy" bibs and "Pregnant Princess" maternity clothes, Ann Sylvia also offers bibs and onesies adorned with the ballpark epithet "Damon Sucks." Last month, eBay pulled the listings after the Scott Boras Corp. complained that they violated Damon's right of publicity, a legal claim that allows celebrities to control the products they endorse.
Sylvia hadn't sold any of the Damon items at the time, but the complaint threatened to blemish her eBay rating and jeopardize her PowerSeller status.
"I'm just a stay-at-home mom. I just want to raise my children, sell my stuff," said Sylvia, who works part-time at The Standard-Times of New Bedford, which first reported on her struggle. "It's all a little nerve-racking, a little scary."
If so, she didn't show it in her negotiations with Boras' staff. During an hourlong phone call, she pointed out to attorney Ryan Lubner that there are other baseball players named "Damon." How did he know, after all, that she wasn't the world's biggest critic of Tampa Bay's Damon Hollins?
"Then I knew I had him," she gloated. "So I said, 'Let's make a compromise.'"
Lubner agreed to lift his objection and clear her eBay record if Sylvia agreed not to use "Johnny," "Boston," "Red Sox," "New York," or "Yankees" in the listing.
Now Sylvia's bibs are back on eBay.
"This is one of the more ridiculous cases we've seen arising out of eBay," said Greg Beck, an attorney who helped Sylvia with her case. "If a sports figure could sue for infringement of the right of publicity every time a fan criticized him, we'd have chaos in the court system."
And the ballpark.
Asked about the dispute at Yankee Stadium this week, Damon said he was unaware of it and referred questions to Boras. Calls seeking comment from Lubner were not returned.
"Sports figures like Johnny Damon are important people in our society, and the First Amendment protects the right of the public to freely comment on them," said Beck, who works for the Public Citizen Litigation Group. "Johnny Damon doesn't get to control what people say about him."
Damon's role in Boston's 2004 World Series title made him one of Boston's most popular athletes; that ended when he jilted the Red Sox for a four-year, $52 million contract with the Yankees. Red Sox fans reacted by converting their "Damon" jerseys to "Demon" jerseys and booing him lustily when he returned to Fenway Park in New York's pinstripes.
Sylvia's protest was equally subtle.
"What Damon did is just the ultimate betrayal in baseball," she said in a telephone interview from her home in New Bedford. "I don't see how it could not be considered that."
A mother of two whose online store, "Owen and Emma," is named after her children, Sylvia has operated an online store since 2001 so she can spend more time at home with her kids. She makes more than $1,000 a month from eBay sales.
Though she hadn't sold any "Damon Sucks" merchandise before the controversy, she's sold two items since.
But not everyone is happy.
"Here's the thing," she said slyly. "My husband is a Yankees fan, and his whole family is Yankees fans; my whole family is Red Sox fans. So the whole New York-Boston thing is contentious. "But we have fun with it."
----YAH ME TOO!
Seriously,
I love my Yankees, but if not for the intense rivalry, neither team would be a strong as they are today. They both rise to the occasion when playing against each other.
But this "yankees suck" campaign is out of control!
All over New England, there are more Yankee haters and less Red Sox supporters.
What ever happened to good sportsmanship?
Do you think ANYONE in NY has ANTI-RED SOX bumper stickers, t-shirts, hats, baby clothes, etc..???
They don't because they don't care about preaching hate (not that NY is foreign to this), instead they focus on over-criticizing their own players (unfortunately). The Red Sox are just another team the Yanks play against. Their entire season does not rest on the belittling of ONLY ONE TEAM.
Over the course of the the last 100 or so games the Yanks/Sox have each won half (approx., so don't quote me, but we're talking practically 50/50 split here)
ATTENTION RED SOX NATION, learn to support your own team without having to disparge someone else's!!
/semi-annual sox v. yanks rant
Fan settles Damon bib dispute with Boras
The Associated Press
BOSTON A Red Sox fan angry that Johnny Damon defected to the New York Yankees has fought off an attempt by his high-powered agent to stop her from selling baby bibs with a very grown-up insult.
Tucked among the "I Love My Mommy" bibs and "Pregnant Princess" maternity clothes, Ann Sylvia also offers bibs and onesies adorned with the ballpark epithet "Damon Sucks." Last month, eBay pulled the listings after the Scott Boras Corp. complained that they violated Damon's right of publicity, a legal claim that allows celebrities to control the products they endorse.
Sylvia hadn't sold any of the Damon items at the time, but the complaint threatened to blemish her eBay rating and jeopardize her PowerSeller status.
"I'm just a stay-at-home mom. I just want to raise my children, sell my stuff," said Sylvia, who works part-time at The Standard-Times of New Bedford, which first reported on her struggle. "It's all a little nerve-racking, a little scary."
If so, she didn't show it in her negotiations with Boras' staff. During an hourlong phone call, she pointed out to attorney Ryan Lubner that there are other baseball players named "Damon." How did he know, after all, that she wasn't the world's biggest critic of Tampa Bay's Damon Hollins?
"Then I knew I had him," she gloated. "So I said, 'Let's make a compromise.'"
Lubner agreed to lift his objection and clear her eBay record if Sylvia agreed not to use "Johnny," "Boston," "Red Sox," "New York," or "Yankees" in the listing.
Now Sylvia's bibs are back on eBay.
"This is one of the more ridiculous cases we've seen arising out of eBay," said Greg Beck, an attorney who helped Sylvia with her case. "If a sports figure could sue for infringement of the right of publicity every time a fan criticized him, we'd have chaos in the court system."
And the ballpark.
Asked about the dispute at Yankee Stadium this week, Damon said he was unaware of it and referred questions to Boras. Calls seeking comment from Lubner were not returned.
"Sports figures like Johnny Damon are important people in our society, and the First Amendment protects the right of the public to freely comment on them," said Beck, who works for the Public Citizen Litigation Group. "Johnny Damon doesn't get to control what people say about him."
Damon's role in Boston's 2004 World Series title made him one of Boston's most popular athletes; that ended when he jilted the Red Sox for a four-year, $52 million contract with the Yankees. Red Sox fans reacted by converting their "Damon" jerseys to "Demon" jerseys and booing him lustily when he returned to Fenway Park in New York's pinstripes.
Sylvia's protest was equally subtle.
"What Damon did is just the ultimate betrayal in baseball," she said in a telephone interview from her home in New Bedford. "I don't see how it could not be considered that."
A mother of two whose online store, "Owen and Emma," is named after her children, Sylvia has operated an online store since 2001 so she can spend more time at home with her kids. She makes more than $1,000 a month from eBay sales.
Though she hadn't sold any "Damon Sucks" merchandise before the controversy, she's sold two items since.
But not everyone is happy.
"Here's the thing," she said slyly. "My husband is a Yankees fan, and his whole family is Yankees fans; my whole family is Red Sox fans. So the whole New York-Boston thing is contentious. "But we have fun with it."
----YAH ME TOO!
Seriously,
I love my Yankees, but if not for the intense rivalry, neither team would be a strong as they are today. They both rise to the occasion when playing against each other.
But this "yankees suck" campaign is out of control!
All over New England, there are more Yankee haters and less Red Sox supporters.
What ever happened to good sportsmanship?
Do you think ANYONE in NY has ANTI-RED SOX bumper stickers, t-shirts, hats, baby clothes, etc..???
They don't because they don't care about preaching hate (not that NY is foreign to this), instead they focus on over-criticizing their own players (unfortunately). The Red Sox are just another team the Yanks play against. Their entire season does not rest on the belittling of ONLY ONE TEAM.
Over the course of the the last 100 or so games the Yanks/Sox have each won half (approx., so don't quote me, but we're talking practically 50/50 split here)
ATTENTION RED SOX NATION, learn to support your own team without having to disparge someone else's!!
/semi-annual sox v. yanks rant
Get 'em while they're hot...
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(poke) dan, you're a yankee fan...i'd never expect you to understand....up until 2004 it was 86 yr drought! how many world series wins do the yanks have...29 or something crazy like that....don;t try and figure out a red sox fan, because you can't....i have two favorite teams the red sox and any other team but the yankees! oh ya, i'm not a big yankees sucks chanting fan...i actually wouldn't chant it, but i am a yankee hater...big time!!
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bazooka joe said:
You know I love you guys!
Yeah, I know it was a long time comin', now get over it!
Please, I am a Buffalo Bill's fan...talk about choking!! It still stings to think about it.
That doesn't mean I need to see a "CHOKE" (a la Coke) shirt and a YH hat at every store in town.
But not every chance the Sox have had has been ruined solely thru the influence of the Yankees. They could still go to the playoffs even if they lost EVERY game to the yanks and ...(even as a wildcard, which they showed they CAN do).
I'm just sayin' the hatin' needs to go!
Fans of a team don't need to go pissin' on their rivals.
Just play a good fair game and let the best team win!
What bugs me is the promotion of this negativity/hatred.
I think it sends the wrong message to our kids rather than GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP. And we wonder about how f'd up these pro-athletes are. Can you imagine the next generation?
Zack is turning 5 and he already knows that we are SURROUNDED by RED SOX players and that they REALLY don't like the YANKEES!
There are NO kids in NY who feel too threatened to wear their Red Sox caps. I fear putting a NY sticker on my car that it would be vandalized for sure!! A friend of mine in Boston was refused service at a gas station when he pulled in wearing a NY hat!
On that note, I'll be changing my sig....maybe someones avatar could be changed too?
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Crazee D said:
haha...i can't believe you changed it??? sorry, it's all in red sox nation fun...it's not life and death to me (i know some where it is!!) i like have fun with it and saying "biggest choke in sports hsitory" and all that stuff! by the way you started the "pissing" contest!!!
RallyeRedSi
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red sox vs yankees have nothing on yankees vs the mets here in NY
Tru dat! I withdraw from further peeing.(piss)bazooka joe said:by the way you started the "pissing" contest!!!
Yanks vs. Mets, eh...they don't play the same league let alone the same division. How many times a year do they play anyway?
I know that hatred runs deep, but still I don't remember seeing shirts and bumper stickers in NY that say "I love the Mets and anyone who beats the Yankees".
I always felt that there was more mutual respect for another team and not so much unadulterated contempt.
To me, the Yanks are about class.
Any kid who ever made it to the majors knew that to be a Yank was the ultimate achievement.
RallyeRedSi
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Crazee D said:
i think Met fans cheered more than boston fans when they beat the yankees.
Mets and Yankees play each other 6 times in the season, We call it the Subway series here.
Yankees fans hate the Mets and Mets fans hate the Yankees, and you can never cheer for both. it usually happens with 2 NY teams in the same sport like Jets vs Giants and Islanders vs Rangers
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Crazee D said:
maybe, but the fans are another story....when the last time you went to yankee stadium...wow the fans are unreal...the bosox fans can get crazy to don;t get me wrong, but the yanks (players) might be about class...the fans well..that;s another story
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G-Papi said:
okay then, let's do some winning!!!! (maybe i'll regret that??)
