Joel Sherman play by play of Yankee-Damon denouement

Joel Sherman has a re-cap of the Yankee-Johnny Damon denouement to date, including an episode last week that sounds pretty bad:

• "However, as The Post reported today, Damon called the Yankees in the middle of last week, and Yankees executives floated a one-year, $6 million deal with $3 million deferred with no interest.
• The idea was that if Damon approved of that, Yankees officials would see if Hal Steinbrenner would relent and increase the budget specifically to keep Damon.
• But Damon never responded and the Yankees yesterday signed Randy Winn for $2 million, closing the door on Damon.

But Boras claims the door had been slammed in mid-December, saying “before they spoke to me they had moved down the road. No matter what I said, they had moved down the road.”"

• from Joel Sherman's Hardball blog, "Boras, Yankees bicker over Damon Divorce," 1/28/10

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